Warmest Congrats to all poets on the shortlist for the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize 2025!
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wonderful poem @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social
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The Alchemy Spoon
The Alchemy Spoon
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
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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
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The Launch of Issue 14 of The Alchemy Spoon
Join us for the online launch of Issue 14 of The Alchemy Spoon for a sneak peek into our latest magical literary creations!
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...
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The Alchemy Spoon
The Alchemy Spoon
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.
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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!
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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
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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
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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...
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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-
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Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. Books at Valley Press.
Poet, Run The Black Light Engine Room Press. Middlesbrough Historian. Outsider artist/musician.
Poet, writer and translator.
Leicester-based poet, educator and reviewer and visual artist. PhD poetry and holography.
Show Date and Time (Smith Doorstop) Strange Fashion (Pindrop Press) forthcoming pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press).
Hawthornden Fellow.
BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),βTiger Girlβ shortlisted Forward Prize, βMama Amazonicaβ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel βMy Hummingbird Fatherβ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Curator Welshpool Poetry Festival. Hosts Verbatim open mic & facilitates Touch Paper workshops, both at the Poetry Pharmacy Bishopβs Castle. Has 3 pamphlets (I mean written by me! Iβve got a lot more pamphlets by other poets in my library!)
She/her
MA Graduate in Creative Writing. Liverpudlian born, family saga novelist, short story writer, and poet. Paints pictures with words.
Member of RNA and ALLi
Shop asst. Poet and interviewer. Work broadcast on BBC Radio Three, The Verb. Edits The Wombwell Rainbow. #PromoteIndieLit Recent work: "The Dude Work,' Sherwood Handcrafted Press, 2024. Forthcoming: "The Drey Skin", "In Your Mouth"
Poetry
https://linktr.ee/paulings
Franco-Scot π«π·π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
Poet: 'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian, 2024) | Alpine Fellowship Prize SL '23 | Ginkgo Prize SL '22 & '21
Composer: North Sea Navigator | Holmes + atten Ash
Art-photographer: Paul atten Ash
Bristol, Europe
https://campsite.bio/northseanavigator
poet, musician, place writer, beachcomber / edgelander, sarahlander, north briton / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / high-functioning anxiety doughnut / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee
Sheffield
they/them please, ta π
petegreensolo.com
Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Readerβs Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
Pushcart & BoTN nominated Poet
1st collection: "An Array of Vapour" with TSL Pubs:
https://tslbooks.uk/product/an-array-of-vapour-peter-lilly/
2nd: "A Handful of Prayers" with Wipf & Stock.
https://wipfandstock.com/9798385204373/a-handful-of-prayers
Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
Poet, writer and reviewer living in Grimsby, UK. Published by Black Bough, Hedgehog, the Dark Poets, Written Off, LIncs & Inks, voidspacezine. Short fiction extensively published by Pure Slush. Always follow back. https://linktr.ee/gphydeauthor
Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Basic Nest Architecture
Much with Body
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Award winning poet. Pushcart/BOTN nom. Miniskirts in The Waste Land PBS winter 2023. Bridport sβlist, Welsh Comp highly commended, 3rd prize Cannon also Plaza comps. Indigo Dreams lβlist. Agenda, Stand, Tears in the Fence, Orbis forthcoming Under The Radar
Disability advocate, editor and author | Forthcoming: Volvelle (Picador, July 2026) | Editor of VERSUS VERSUS: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (Bloodaxe Books, 2025).
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