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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Mahir

My favourite poetry is that which teaches me something about a person and their lived experience while being abstract enough that I can find myself in it. Mahir’s poetry is just that - gentle, soulful and thought provoking. The poem shared in this edition speaks to polarity and the thin
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Poetry ⸱ Siobhan Cawson Mooney

The Octopus

Shape-shifter silent invertebrate hunter time-traveller on a restless tide weightless in an impermanent pool Siobhan Cawson-Mooney is our current Poet-in-Residence. Every now and then we find a voice that sings to us. Those voices that show us something new - voices from out there that somehow
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Rick McLean

At first look and listen Rick and his brand of performance poetry might seem a bit ballsy and belligerent. Righteous, chip paper written rants on the state of society. Scratch the surface though and you'll find a sensitive sage, a watcher, a man who sees through the surfaces
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Poetry ⸱ Siobhan Cawson Mooney

One Hand is Plenty

One hand is plenty to hold your crumpled spirit to soothe your troubled brow to embrace the one you love completely. One hand is all you need to greet and bid farewell to let the world know this time you’re waving not drowning Siobhan Cawson-Mooney is our current
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Interviews ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: Robert Monk, poet

Robert Monk - poet, artist, performer, storyteller. Robert came to us through our submission path. An artist in from the cold. We hoped on the phone for a chat, despite living in the same city (the curse of the stacked modern diary!) And we had an immediate rapport. Robert was charming,
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Poetry ⸱ Siobhan Cawson Mooney

The Totem

The Totem We travelled many miles you and I rolled up in the stiff cloth of London’s arthritic winter tumbling into the late-Saharan harmattan sun-shrouded-Accra at dawn. We saw fruit bats coming home to roost stomach’s bulging all drunken chatter You liberated from beneath that
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Jenny Horton

We featured Seb Bance, back in October after I heard him speak about the loss of his brother, Alistair at the Orbit Brewery open mic. Subsequently Seb let me know his mum, Jenny, is also a poet and that she’s been processing loss and life through poetry too. So,
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Interviews ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: John Gay, writer

We talk to John Gay, author of Glasgow Anonymous, a memoir to be published by TheNeverPress in 2027
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Rebecca Barrow

Rebecca and I met at Morocco Bound at a Storytime London fundraiser event for the mental health charity MIND. So, it seemed right to meet back there to discuss the project and the portrait shoot. There is something special about these small spaces filled with books that helps you open
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Poetry

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

Write Speak Recover ⸱ Tim Foley

Write Speak Recover: Rick McLean

At first look and listen Rick and his brand of performance poetry might seem a bit ballsy and belligerent. Righteous, chip paper written rants on the state of society. Scratch the surface though and you'll find a sensitive sage, a watcher, a man who sees through the surfaces
Read More →