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Issues

Monthly issues of TheNeverZine - all our articles, interviews and original writing collated into monthly editions. Make a cuppa, put a record on and get settled to dive into our wonderful back issues

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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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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Interviews ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: Thomas Brown, artist

Know that it will probably take time, that relationships are key, and that the only way to fail is to give up.
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ 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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Articles ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: Zoë Thompson, founder, sweet-thang Zine

The Artist is the dreamer who helps us see that more is possible, that what does not yet exist, can.
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Write Speak Recover ⸱ 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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Articles ⸱ Graham Thomas

Interview: Adrian Hornsby, writer

'I realised that the border between make-believe and reality is much more porous than you think. You can dream stuff up and just make it happen, and don’t need special mystical knowledge or a legitimising body.'
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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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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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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 →