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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: Dare to Speak, The Libra Theatre Cafe, Camden

This was it. Everything the poetry scene should be. Innovation, debuts, tears, standing ovations, all the hugs, all the love. Words dancing into minds, magic reverberating from the walls, sewing a blanket of care. Yes, this was it. We stitch our stories Our tapestry of tales Love woven into ends
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Poetry ⸱ Ameer Azad

Cult of the Pink Skull

Brace! Brace! Brace!
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Emma Kirrage

Since starting this project I seem to have developed a sense that tells me a poet has a deeper story to tell while I watch them perform. Something beyond their words that has drawn them to that particular stage at that time, leaving me moved to speak to them and
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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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Issues ⸱ 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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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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