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Write Speak Recover

Write Speak Recover explores how poetry and performing are transformational art forms for mental health and recovery. WSR captures the subject's essence through medium format, b/w portraiture. We present the people behind the poems honouring their creativity, vulnerability and fearlessness. It is a reminder that healing processes, though deeply personal, carry similarities. WSR is continually open to submissions from poets who are using their art to heal from any form of dis-ease in their lives.

Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Dennis Tomlinson

Dennis is one of my favourite poets to watch and listen to. He has an earnest style of delivery, always sharing poems layered with lived experiences, feeling and a connection to the natural world. We met for the photo shoot on a beautiful spring morning at the Wimbledon Windmill which
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Jules

Jules recently celebrated a special birthday and in their Instagram party post they shared Wild Geese by Mary Oliver, which begins with - “You do not have to be good // You do not have to walk on your knees // For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting // You only have to
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Nic Stanley

This project and the poetry scene are rooted in shared experiences. Those moments that make you sit up and say “I have written about this too!” As if you are hearing your experience but in a different context. Nic is one of those poets for me. The poem she selected
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Michael Gough

I met Michael at the lovely writing group that Ruth Beddow hosts at Morocco Bound. He always greets you with a smile and an offer of a seat at his table. Michael has music and magic in him - spending time in his orbit is time soulfully spent. We met at
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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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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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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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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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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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Write Speak Recover: Ricky Frost

‘I met Ricky when I was pretty new on the scene, at my first ever poetry slam at Slamden, Raven Records in Camden. I didn’t really understand what a slam was and did a sad moody poem, made my wife cry and came last! Ricky was so kind and
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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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