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Poetry

Original poetry from TheNeverPress - new work and also extracts and full pieces from old collections.

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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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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Interviews ⸱ 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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Poetry ⸱ 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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Write Speak Recover ⸱ 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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Poetry ⸱ Ameer Azad

The Compactor

Some choice words and feelings from our Poet-in-Residence. Brace before reading...
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Mic Nightlife ⸱ 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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Poetry ⸱ 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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Poetry ⸱ Ameer Azad

I am The Martian

I am The Martian Past the unseeable colours beyond It awaits in one pointed concentration A being separate from meaning, that is, was, and will be, and surpasses such names On the journey through the prismatic death mirrors, it recognised the fearful apparitions of the self, abandoning all linear notions
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Articles ⸱ Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife: Words at the Woodfield

Mic Nightlife is a photography, poetry and storytelling series celebrating the places in which people share words.
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Adriana Cloud

'I met Adriana at the Sober AF poetry night at Club Soda, which was a wonderful, soulful poetry night that is sadly now no more. The clue is in the name that the night usually steered towards stories of sobriety and recovery, though it was a welcoming place for
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Josie Harding

Josie’s poetry persona is  “Satellite Head”, which is so suitable because floating in her orbit is a celestial, mindful place to be. Josie wears her soul on her sleeve. Always sharing poetry that is as equally introspective as it is universally understandable. We both have connections to Cornwall, however
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