Warmest Congrats to all poets on the shortlist for the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize 2025!

last few days for you to submit your poems on SOIL - there's a lot around, so get digging and let your words flourish this spring in issue 15! www.alchemyspoon.org

dont forget to send your poems on SOIL before the end of February. We are beginning to compost our selection for issue 15, from all we've received so far it's looking blooming great! www.alchemyspoon.org

Hurrah: launch date set for issue 14 of The Alchemy Spoon is 31 Jan. Live on Zoom. Register free and join us for a fab hour of poetry and chat. Next submission window opens the very next day, 1 Feb, the theme is SOIL. Get those pens out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-launch...

The Alchemy Spoon issue 14 also reviews Out-Spoken Press collection by Azad Ashim Sharma. check out our website, keep informed, consider a subscription: www.alchemyspoon.org // Launch in early January. Next submission window the month of February, the theme is SOIL.

issue 14 of The Alchemy Spoon also reviews of Broken Sleep Books (Diana Cant, Jordan Hamel), Palewell Press (Sue Wallace-Shaddad), Seren (Katrina Naomi), Live Canon (Tamsin Hopkins), Nine Arches (Jane Burn, Tim Tim Cheng), Clayhanger Press (John Whitehouse), Vole Books (Judith Wozniak), Be inspired!

issue 14 of The Alchemy Spoon proud to publish reviews by SK Grout, Diana Cant, Julian Bishop and Mary Mulholland of poetry books from: Bloodaxe Books (Niall Campbell, Nia Broomhall, Dfiza Benson, Helen Ivory, Jane Hirshfield), Carcanet (Carl Phillips), Granta (Nisha Ramayya), TBC

Issue 14 of The Alchemy Spoon also publishing poems by LB Jorgensen, Jill Husser-Munro, Rebecca Gethin, Kathleen Gray, Rennie Halstead, Simon Ravenscroft, Gareth Writer Davies and Alex Reed, essay by Glyn Maxwell, interview of Astrid Alben, and artwork by Sultana Raza, Viv Fogel, Abbie Randall - tbc

The Alchemy Spoon issue 14 is delighted publish poems by Lara Frankena, Edward Lee, Keith Chandler, Peter Newall, Claire Booker, Kate Young, Dave Wakely, Sue Wallace-Shaddad, Suzanna Fitzpatrick, Anne Ryland, Pamela Coren, Jonah Corren, Nina Parmenter, Ruth Lexton, Lynne Schilling more to come...

The Alchemy Spoon is delighted to announce content for issue 14 will include poems by Vanessa Lampert, Tamsin Hopkins, Ewan Monaghan, Charles G Lauder, Amber Train, Jeffery Sugarman, Marina Sanchez, DA Prince, Nora Blascsok, Chris Hardy, Joseph Hunter, John Lancaster, Kerry Darbishire, more to come-