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Dispatches from TheNeverPress - arts, culture, news, discoveries and new writing

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Interviews ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: Robert Monk, poet

Robert Monk - poet, artist, performer, storyteller. Robert came to us through our submission path. An artist in from the cold. We hoped on the phone for a chat, despite living in the same city (the curse of the stacked modern diary!) And we had an immediate rapport. Robert was charming,

19 Aug 2026

Poetry ⸱ Siobhan Cawson Mooney

The Totem

The Totem We travelled many miles you and I rolled up in the stiff cloth of London’s arthritic winter tumbling into the late-Saharan harmattan sun-shrouded-Accra at dawn. We saw fruit bats coming home to roost stomach’s bulging all drunken chatter You liberated from beneath that

12 Aug 2026

Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Jenny Horton

We featured Seb Bance, back in October after I heard him speak about the loss of his brother, Alistair at the Orbit Brewery open mic. Subsequently Seb let me know his mum, Jenny, is also a poet and that she’s been processing loss and life through poetry too. So,

7 Aug 2026

Interviews ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: John Gay, writer

We talk to John Gay, author of Glasgow Anonymous, a memoir to be published by TheNeverPress in 2027

5 Aug 2026

Poetry ⸱ Siobhan Cawson Mooney

Haiku for my Grandma

“The past is a foreign country…. Il passato è una terra straniera” Gianrico Carofiglio 1. The walk-in wardrobe plundered, duchesse treasures for small, rouged pirate girls 2. We stand stoically the photo shivers in the bare winter garden 3. In the caravan We play Gin Rummy and Snap Soft

28 Jul 2026

Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Rebecca Barrow

Rebecca and I met at Morocco Bound at a Storytime London fundraiser event for the mental health charity MIND. So, it seemed right to meet back there to discuss the project and the portrait shoot. There is something special about these small spaces filled with books that helps you open

24 Jul 2026

Be wild. Be free.

The Big Interview: Adam Casey, model maker - Part 2/3

And here we are back with Part Two of our bog old chat with model maker and book nook creator extraordinaire, Adam Casey. In case you didn't catch the first part, you can read it here... The Big Interview - Adam Casey, model-maker - Part 1/3Adam Casey, book

546 Warrington Road

After my grandma's death, some thirty years ago, I never set foot in her house again. Over time, all memory of childhood became shuttered there; it was, for a long time, too painful to visit, even in my imagination. The poem speaks of the deep loss I experienced

Write Speak Recover: Maria Mayer

Maria found me through friendship. She was invited to join one of our Write Speak Recover workshops by the always effervescent Dave. Thankfully, she never left and has become woven seamlessly into our little world. She mentions Goethe in her piece and I wasn’t too aware of his poems,

Interview: Stuart Webb, poet

These days everything is so fast and so vapid that sitting quietly with an idea or a concept and creating a poem from it is a healthy activity.

Lemons

lemons I clean my sharp jump rope I’m french-skipping and kissing with handclaps the pointed barbs of her cruel, yellow insults will drive me to cleanse the poison from my heart. There will be lemon-blossoms to dance in as we swing into the sunshine in the city

The Big Interview - Adam Casey, model-maker - Part 1/3

Adam Casey, book nook maker, miniature builder, and self confessed hoarder of junk, on authenticity, A.I, all things creative, and dealing with finding a larger audience on social media. In 2021, Adam Casey made his first Book Nook and has been on an exciting, inspiring artistic journey ever since.