Mary Mulholland is co-editor of The Alchemy Spoon (www.alchemyspoon.org) 

Read Mary’s interviews (www.alchemyspoon.org):

issue  1 – Kathryn Maris 

issue  2 – Wayne Holloway Smith

issue  3 – Pascale Petit

issue  4 – Roy McFarlane

issue  5 – Malika Booker

issue  6 – George Szirtes

issue  7 – Caroline Bird

issue  8 – Liz Berry

issue  9 – Ian McMillan

issue 10 – Jean & Martha Sprackland

issue 11 – Mark Waldron

issue 12 – Kwame Dawes

issue 13 – Mimi Khalvati 

issue 14 – Astrid Alben 

issue 15 – Jacob Sam-la Rose 

issue 16 – Nina Mingya Powles

issue 17 – Niall Campbell 

Read Mary’s book reviews (www.alchemyspoon.org)

issue 1: Arji Manuelpillai, Mutton Rolls (OutSpoken Press); Nina Mingya Powles, Magnolia (Nine Arches Press); Geraldine Clarkson, Monica’s Overcoat of Flesh (Nine Arches Press); Romalyn Ante, Antimetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus)

issue 2: Wendy French, Bread without Butter,Bara feb fennh (Rockingham Press); Simon Maddrell, Throatbone (UnCollected Press); Sumita Chakraborty, Arrow (Carcanet); Lawrence Illsey, A Brief History of Trees (Live Canon); Vanessa Lampert, On Long Loan (Live Canon); Tim Cresswell, Plastiglomerate (Penned in the Margins); Sue Wallace-Shaddad, A City Waking Up (Dempsey & WIndle); Joe Carrick-Varty, 54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to my Father (Outspoken Press)

issue 3: alice hiller, bird of winter (Pavilion Press); Natalie Whittaker, Tree (Verve Poetry Press); Crossing Lines, an anthology of Immigrant Poetry (Broken Sleep Books); Simon Maddrell, Queerfella (Rialto); Zoe Brigley, Aubade after a French Movie (Broken Sleep Books); GC Waldrop, The Earliest Witnesses (Carcanet); Simone Atangana Bekono, transl David Colmer, how the first sparks became visible (Emma Press); Lisa Luxx, fetch your mother’s heart (Outspoken Press); Khairani Barokka, Ultimatum Orangatan (Nine Arches Press)

issue 4: Rebecca Perry, Stone Fruit (Bloodaxe); John Gallas, The Extasie (Carcanet); Julie Irigaray, Whales, Witches and Gauchos (Nine Pens); S Niroshini, Darling Girl (Bad Betty Press); Louisa Campbell, Beautiful Nowhere (Boatwhislte Books); Monika Cassel, Grammar of Passage (Flipped Eye Publishing); Jeffery Sugarcane, Dear Friend(s) (Emma Press); Iliassa Sequin, Collected Complete Poems (Grey Suit Editions); Adinda van ‘t Klooster, Still Born (Affect Formations Publishing); Niall O’Sullivan, Werewolf of London (Flipped Eye Publishing)

issue 5: Carola Luther, On the way to Jerusalem Farm (Carcanet); Nic Stringer, Hemispheres (Guillemot Press); Maisie Lawrence & Rishi Dastidar, Eds, TOO YOUNG, TOO LOUD, TOO DIFFERENT (Corsair); Geraldine Clarkson, CRUCIFOX (Verve Poetry); Alex Reed, knots, tangles, fankles (V.Press); Suffolk Poetry Society, On a Knife Edge (Lavenham Press; Claire Hughes, Oblivion (Clayhanger Press)

issue 6: SK Grout, What love would smell like (V. Press); Moniza Alvi, Fairoz (Bloodaxe); John F Deane, Naming of the Bones (Carcanet); Qudsia Akhtar, Khamoshi (Verve Poetrry Press); Hubert Matiúwàa, transl Juana Adcock, First Rain (flipped eye publishing); Nicki Heinen, There May Be A Reason Why (Verve Press); Amali Gunasekera, The Golden Thread (Bloodaxe); Luke Kennard, Bad Sermons (Broken Sleep Books)

issue 7: Jane Burn, Be Feared (Nine Arches Press); Al Filreis & Anna Strong Safford, Eds, The Difference is Spreading, fifty contemporary poets on fifty poems (University of Pennsylvania Press); Sarah Wimbush, Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorggiolands (Bloodaxe); Helen Quah, Dog Woman (Outspoken Press); Sarah Mnatzaganian, Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter (Against the Grain); Anita Pati, Hiding to Nothing (Liverpool University Press); Richard Skinner, Dream into Play (Poetry Salzburg); Phoebe Power, Book of Days (Carcanet); Gillie Robic, Open Skies (Live Canon)

issue 8: Ellora Sutton, antonyms for burial (Fourteen Publishing); Kathryn Bevin, Flamingo (Seren Books); Ruth Sutoyé & Jacob Sam-La Rose, Before Them, We (flipped eye publishing); Jennifer A McGowan, How to be a Tarot Card, or a Teenager (Arachne Press); Mukahang Limbu, Mother of Flip-Flops (OutSpoken Press); Shazea Quraishi, The Glimmer (Bloodaxe); Clare Shaw, Towards a General Theory of Love (Bloodaxe); Nóra Blascsók, <body>of work</body> (Broken Sleep Books); Katie O’Pray, Apricot (OutSpoken Press)

issue 9: Joe Carrick-Varty, More Sky (Carcanet); Sarala Estruch, After All We Have Travelled (Nine Arches Press); Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Cane, Corn & Gully (OutSpoken Press); Charlote Baldwin, With My Lips Pressed to the Ear of the Earth (Nine Pens); Tim Tim Cheng, Tapping at Glass (Verve Poetry Press); Kerry Darbishire, Jardinière (Hedgehog Press); Julian Bishop, We Saw It All Happen (Fly on the Wall Press); Maria-Sophia Christodoulou, A Disbelief of Flesh (OutSpoken Press)

issue 10: Zoe Walkington, I Hate to Be The One to Tell You This (smithIdoorstop); Glyn Maxwell, The Big Calls (Live Canon); Luke Samuel Yates, Dynamo (smithIdoorstop); Jane Clarke, A Change in the Air (Bloodaxe; Kris Johnson, Ghost River (Bloodaxe); Hilary Llewellyn-Williams, The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems (Seren)

issue 11: Rachel Carney, Octopus Mind (Seren); David Mohan, Wildfire (Against the Grain); Rosie Jackson, Love Leans over the Table (Two Rivers Press); Mark Waldron, Straight Up Giant (Bloodaxe); Sarah Doyle, (m)other songs (V.Press); Fahad Al-Amoudi, when the flies come (Ignition Press)

issue 12: Lalah-Simone Springer, An Aviary of Common Birds (Broken Sleep Books); HLR, Ex-Cetera (Nine Pens); Kit Ingram, Aqueous Red (Broken Sleep Books); Pratibha Castle, Miniskirts in the Wastelands (Hedgehog Press); Penelope Shuttle, Noah (Broken Sleep Books); Clementine e Burnley, Radical Pairing (Ignition Press); Stuart McPherson, End Ceremonies (Broken Sleep Books) Ben Lerner, The Lights (Granta)

issue 13: Sue Burge, The Artificial Parisienne (Live Canon); Simon Maddrell, a finger in derek jarman’s mouth (Polari Press); Emilie Jelinek, Wing Formula (Against the Grain); Kathryn Bevis, The Butterfly House (Seren); Gillie Robic, I Think I Could Be Wrong (Live Canon); Rebecca McCutcheon, down (Out-Spoken Press); Aoife Mannix, Reconstruction (flipped eye); Kristján Norge, The Demon Tracts (Broken Sleep books); Eric Yip, Exposure (Ignition Press)

issue 14: Helen Ivory, Constructing a Witch (Bloodaxe); Tamsin Hopkins, Once We Get Past Poker Night (Live Canon); Tim Tim Cheng, The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches); Jane Burn, The Apothecary of Flight (Nine Arches); Diana Cant, I Make You Bird (Broken Sleep); John Whitehouse, A Distant Englishman (Clayhanger); Judith Wozniak, Making Dolmades in Essex (Vole Books); Dfiza Benson, Monster (Bloodaxe)

issue 15: Ange Mlinko, Foxglovewise (Faber); Claudine Toutoungi, Emotional Support Horse (Carcanet); JLM Morton, Red Handed (Broken Sleep Books); Wendy Pratt, Blackbird Singing at Dusk (Nine Arches); Lavinia Greenlaw, The Vast Extent (Faber); Jay Gao Bark, Archive, Splinter (Out-Spoken Press); Stephanie Powell, Invisible Wasp (Liquid Amber Press); Simon Maddrell, Patient L1 (Polari Press); Tessa Foley, Try to Find Me (Live Canon)

issue 16: Isabelle Baafi: Chaotic Good (Faber); Tom Bailey, Do not touch or feed the horses (Poetry London Editions); Ken Evans, A Full-On Basso Profundo (Salt Publishing); Holly Winter-Hughes, How to Leave a Body (Verve Poetry Press); Nikki Robson, The Price of Happiness (V. Press); Colin Bancroft, Vanishing Point (Broken Sleep Books); Nina Mingya Powles, In the Hollow of the Wave (Nine Arches Press); Matthew Paul, The Last Corinthians (Crooked Spine Press)

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