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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Amy McAllister

There are some poems and performances that stay with you, because when you hear them you are transported through the words to another place. It’s as if you are actually there in the poem and form a memory from the visualisation during listening. That was my experience when I
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Mic Nightlife ⸱ Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife - Orbit Beers - Poetry and Spoken Word Night, Walworth, London

There is something conspiratorial about walking down a poorly lit back street, under a gloomy railway bridge and through a busy brewery into a cosy back room lined with barrels. As the trains rumble overhead poets share stories and wisdom with each other to raucous cheers. These feel like nights
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Issues ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: Zoë Thompson, founder, sweet-thang Zine

The Artist is the dreamer who helps us see that more is possible, that what does not yet exist, can.
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Alan Hark

I’ve been watching Alan’s @im.not.leaving.yet series for a while and was pleased to finally meet the real man behind the reels. Alan is all about collaboration, we met in his kitchen in Walthamstow and it was a perfect place to chat and create, over a
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Articles ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: Adrian Hornsby, writer

'I realised that the border between make-believe and reality is much more porous than you think. You can dream stuff up and just make it happen, and don’t need special mystical knowledge or a legitimising body.'
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Issues ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: Siobhan Cawson Mooney, poet

Poetry has, without doubt, helped me recover myself - that inward journey into the darkest reaches of my soul, helped release my creativity from its shackles.
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Issues ⸱ Ameer Azad

What I Heard

What I Heard It is concentrated to a paste Thick enough to stick a knife in. A damp-sweet pungency you can’t help but smell. What is the smell? An experience so striking you shivered Hazy legs upon arms A high better than any other high Even after the floods
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Issues ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Aaliyah Arshad

I met Aaliyah at the wonderful, welcoming Orbit brewery open mic night, and was immediately immersed in her universe. Aaliyah is one of those souls you meet who you wish you could sit with by a campfire under stars and listen to their wisdom for a while. In her most
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Issues ⸱ Ameer Azad

The Compactor

Some choice words and feelings from our Poet-in-Residence. Brace before reading...
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Issues ⸱ Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife - Storytime London, Morocco Bound

Storytime evenings are as energetic and enigmatic as their host. This edition is an extension of my experience of that. Simple, straightforward storytelling that somehow makes perfect salubrious sense! I have a story to tell! I yell Silently inside myself Come tell! I hear him yell  And I follow his
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Issues ⸱ Ameer Azad

King Shezzar's Dream

King Shezzar's Dream They prostrate before the idol of a brass turkey Whose wings encase the city like an egg. Origami chieftains sway on their litters Carried by hunchbacked children Serving wine soaked Dodo meat crawling with ants. Gaze narrows at the crumbling multicoloured ziggurats Where the accused
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Issues ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Ricky Frost

‘I met Ricky when I was pretty new on the scene, at my first ever poetry slam at Slamden, Raven Records in Camden. I didn’t really understand what a slam was and did a sad moody poem, made my wife cry and came last! Ricky was so kind and
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