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Poetry

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

Articles Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife: Home Poetry, TBC, Shoreditch

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 - Ameer Azad

Ameer’s poetry screams out with things only he has seen or imagined, shared in carefully curated landscapes that take you on a (sometimes shocking) journey. It seemed suitable to share this edition on Halloween, a day when lines between worlds real and unreal, of the living and the dead
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Write Speak Recover Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Laurie Farrugia

When one meets Laurie, it’s impossible not to be struck by her authenticity and vulnerability – she's someone who is in full grasp of her honest self. We first met at a Sober AF Poetry night and Laurie’s stage presence was simultaneously gentle and fierce. It takes
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Write Speak Recover Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Seb Bance

I have only heard Seb speak once at a poetry event, the poem below, (and a mad one about croissants!) and the performance stayed with me. This episode is exactly why I decided not to solely focus on recovery as it might usually be spoken about in addiction and sobriety.
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Write Speak Recover: Lizzie Rose

"Oh gosh what can I say about Lizzie to do her justice? She is a siren, she calls out from a place that can’t be calmed. With a voice that has to be heard. Telling stories that are at once profoundly personal and universally relatable. Whenever I hear
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Poetry Ameer Azad

TOONTOWN

Ameer Azad never misses. Witness another slingshot...
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Write Speak Recover Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Simon Gardner

A few words on Simon "You’ll notice references to heaven and hell and the inner self in Simon’s poem in this offering of Write Speak Recover. So, I don’t think it was an accident that he was wearing a Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel t-shirt when we met
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Poetry Ameer Azad

Harvest in the Land of the Dead

And another from our Poet in Residence, Ameer Azad. Strap in...
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Write Speak Recover Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Hannah Stanislaus

"Hannah created the Lost Souls poetry nights and always videos the poets. Later sharing the recordings on Instagram as a lovely way to honour their work. The best part of this is you can hear Hannah’s “hmmms” and “wows” as the poets speak. Little offers of love and
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Articles Tim Foley

WriteB4theMic Celebrate their First Anniversary

We spend an evening of poetry and performance with the WriteB4TheMic collective for their one-year anniversary!
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Poetry Ameer Azad

The Thousand Mile Stretch

A new slice from Ameer Azad, our Poet-In-Residence. Brace before clicking.
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Write Speak Recover Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Sasha

"In talking to, and listening to Sasha's poetry you'll be met by a deep poetic knowledge and understanding of the natural world, and the challenges it faces. I always learn something when I talk to Sasha, about identity, the body, the planet. Gentle lessons about
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