Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen

This magnificent book is a celebration of community, collectivism, reading, rereading, learning, talking, thinking, drafting and redrafting. Above all it's a song of praise to the power of poetry to remind us who we are and who we can become
A critical and urgent moment . . . Malika's Kitchen is as much a gift to poets of colour in the UK as it is a gift to British poetry . . . this anthology is a loud proclamation of the aesthetic value of embracing difference
Like the best kitchens, Malika's fills and satisfies with a mixture of the raw and the sizzling. The tastes are new, the fusion is fun and the heat is transformative
For two decades now, British poetry has been flavoured by the products of Malika's Kitchen. Without that Kitchen we would have been blander; we would not have understood as deeply, how much craft and urgency and ambition belong in the same pot. Gather now at this most important table. Sit. Feast.
Allison Lindner
Anna Doležal
Anne Cooper
Aoife Mannix
Arji Manuelpillai
Be Manzini
Bernadette Reed
Cath Drake
Charlotte Ansell
Christina Fonthes
Cyril Husbands
Daniel Kramb
Dean Atta
Dele Meiji
Denise Saul
Dorothea Smartt
Efe Tokunbo Okogu
Elena Lagoudi
Esther Poyer
Fikayo Balogun
Gemma Weekes
Hannah Gordon
Harry Man
Heather Taylor
Inua Ellams
Jacob Sam-La Rose
Jamal 'Eklipse' Msebele
Janett Plummer
Jill Abram
Jocelyn Page
Joey Connolly
joolz sparkes
Kareem Parkins-Brown
Katie Griffiths
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Kayo Chingonyi
Khairani Barokka
Kostya Tsolákis
Maisie Lawrence
Malika Booker
Mary Renouf
Mehmet Izbudak
Melanie Mauthner
Michelle Penn
Naomi Woddis
Nick Makoha
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Patricia Foster McKenley
P. L. J. McIntosh
Paulette Mae
Peter Kahn
Peter Raynard
Rishi Dastidar
Roger Robinson
Rosanna Raymond
Sarah Reilly
Soul Patel
Sundra Lawrence
Tara Betts
Tolu Agbelusi
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu
Warsan Shire
Yomi Sode
Zakia Carpenter-Hall
Zubaria Lone