TheNeverPress are incredibly honoured to announce a partnership with poet-photographer Tim Foley to launch and host Write Speak Recover - a mixed media platform that celebrates the healing power of poetry and spoken word.
Write Speak Recover (WSR) is a new initiative from Tim Foley and TheNeverPress that focuses on poets who have found strength and empowerment to persevere along their recovery journey through poetry and spoken word.
WSR captures the essence of its subjects through medium format, b/w film portraits and presents the people behind the poems, honouring their creativity, vulnerability and fearlessness. These portraits, along with a selected poem and the poet's insights into how writing has aided their healing journey, are shared here at TheNeverZine - creating an intentional space for photography and poetry to intersect.
Born from personal experience, WSR explores how the act of writing something deeply personal and then speaking it aloud, is transformational for mental health and recovery. The stories shared in open mic rooms and now here in the WSR section of the zine may provide a sense of belonging and kinship. Offering a reminder that recovery journeys, though deeply individual, carry similarities.
By connecting with poets at live events, by word of mouth and with a continually open submissions policy, we will foster a community of artists finding strength and positive change through creative expression. 'Recovery' here encompasses any form of dis-ease or difficulty that writing and speaking helps navigate.
Write Speak Recover and TheNeverPress are working to create safer spaces for all, and we recognise that sustaining something like this requires kindness, attention and care so please contact us to learn more, help us develop and grow in how we are running this initiative, and to tell us your story.
Stat tuned for further articles on Write Speak Recover on the zine, including an in depth discussion with Tim Foley about his work, his process and putting Write Speak Recover together.
In the meantime, we invite you to hit the buttons below to follow Write Speak Recover on Instagram or to get in touch with us to find out more.