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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 - 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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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Lewis Willcox

Lewis is our first participant in the project that I hadn't heard speak at a poetry event. He met Graham, our Founder at TheNeverPress and asked if he could send a submission. Our first inbound project request! What follows is a heartfelt love letter to his father and
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Articles ⸱ Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife: Rough Drafts, The Glitch, Lower Marsh, London

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: Grace Gachoki

I first encountered Grace at the Writeb4theMic poetry night led by the wonderful Starlight. I was very new to the scene, it was my first time at a group like that. I felt like I was in the presence of mystics. Grace in particular, captured me, with her poise and
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Vikas

'I first encountered Vikas at the Poplar Poetry Evening (run by WSR alum Rayon), and I was taken by the sensitivity and exploration of self in his poems. Vikas was open with the crowd about working through difficult things in his poetry. We connected on that and began a
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Poetry ⸱ Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife: Poems not Bombs, Walthamstow Trades Hall

There’s something really special about this venue and night. Upstairs it feels like we are holed away planning a revolution while downstairs is alive with comedy, cabaret, line dancing, music. The kind of place that can start a movement and change the world and the kind of place I
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Ruth Beddow

When I stumbled upon a writing class in the summer of 2024, I was like a little baby Bambi poet, all doe-eyed and completely unsure of my footing. Thankfully, Ruth and her collective are so kind and welcoming. That vibe permeated through the space as we squashed together (her workshops
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