Issue 3 of The Alchemy Spoon

the submission window opens
​on 1st February

The Theme is Spell

all the details are here

Our Newest Publication

Oh beautiful, my country
​a reflection in twelve cinquains

This limited edition of 100 numbered  copies is a hand printed,  hand bound,  A6 pamphlet, printed on a selection of specialised papers including handmade Lokta paper from Nepal and paper made with  50% recycled paper coffee cups. 

Clayhanger Press invited  twelve poets to write an ekphrastic cinquain in response to the photographic  image of early 19th century industrial North Staffordshire entitled  
O Beautiful, my Country
by local photographer William Blake circa 1910.

Only £10 plus p&p 
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Issue 1 is sold out

Copies are available on Amazon


The Alchemy Spoon Issue 2
The Metal Issue
is out towards the end of December  
 you can  pre-order  copies  in advance of publication 
Issue 2: December 2020
only £5.00 plus p&p 


Clayhanger Press is an environmentally aware publisher and uses print on demand for large run publications - there may be a ten day delay in obtaining new stock if we run low but we post as soon as we get the supply from the printers 



The Submission Window for ​Issue 3 with the theme 'Spell'  
opens  in February 2021 

These are our publications - click any image for more details and to purchase copies
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The Alchemy Spoon Issue 2 The Metal Issue

£5.00

Issue 2

The Alchemy Spoon 

A platform for poetry without prejudice especially of race, gender or age. We are particularly interested to invite poems from new phase poets. These are poets who have come late to poetry, often following retirement, or a life-change.

Quandaries by Oliver Leech

£9.99

This brilliantly crafted set of poems is  reproduced in Oliver's original hand written calligraphy and illustrated with his delicate gouache artwork

O beautiful, my country

£10.00

This limited edition of 100 numbered copies is a hand printed, hand bound, A6 pamphlet, printed on a selection of specialised papers including handmade Lokta paper from Nepal and paper made with 50% recycled paper coffee cups. 


Clayhanger Press invited twelve poets to write an ekphrastic cinquain in response to the photographic  image of early 19th century industrial North Staffordshire entitled  

O Beautiful, my Country 

by local photographer William Blake circa 1910.

Poems for Medical Students

£7.50

Sold out

This anthology of poetry is for students embarking on a life in medicine.

Aldgedeslegh

£4.50


Student Bodies 1968

£5.00

Diana Cant's debut pamphlet, a sequence describing a troubled student relationship amidst the decay and decline of the Potteries landscape.

Poetry Before Anything

£5.00

Only a few left!

The Newcastle Stanza Group Anthology 2020

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