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Poetry

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

Poetry ⸱ Ameer Azad

Secret Ingredient!

We're thrashing in the metropolis once more, with our Poet-in-Residence
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Mic Nightlife ⸱ Tim Foley

Mic Nightlife: Lost Souls, Balham

Lost Souls nights are a haven of hope. A space to be fiercely honest, with a wide and open heart. Trust falling into the arms of others who have walked familiar paths. People like to say - Not all who wander are lost Speak here! My brave souls. Why did
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Poetry ⸱ Ameer Azad

Expansion Phase

Buy Ameer Azad's ticket, take his ride...
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Saeed Hirad

Saeed asked to meet for our portrait shoot at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on a beautiful spring evening. As I was walking up I saw a wonderful tree and made a mental note that I might use it in our session. While I waited on the steps at the top
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Issues ⸱ 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 ⸱ 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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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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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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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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