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Dispatches from TheNeverPress - arts, culture, news, discoveries and creative writing.

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We'll be reporting back from out there on the things we love, the things we discover and the things we create. Our dispatches will cover a whole range of stuff - from movie, TV, book, music and theatre reviews, to news & events as well as new creative writing.

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Poetry ⸱ Graham Thomas

Gifts to Give

Give me firm ground to hold me still, And purest brine to drown until, The sky falls off of its silvery peg, And crashes down upon my head.

14 Sep 2024

News ⸱ Tim Hanson

Live review: The Lemon Twigs, Electric Brixton, 05/09/24

Touring their fifth album, New York duo The Lemon Twigs prove that summer can synaesthise into colours other than lime green. In a set overflowing with generosity, the D’Addario brothers painted the stage in honey

13 Sep 2024

Poetry ⸱ Rosie Cook

Joy

Joy in conversation lacked and then had It’s nice to be with you And out of myself

13 Sep 2024

News ⸱ Tim Hanson

Live review: The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs 25th anniversary tour, Barbican, 31/8-01/9

It’s been 25 years since Boston’s The Magnetic Fields found a breathtaking career peak with 69 Love Songs, and the same ambition that drove the record’s conception in 1999 finds Stephin Merritt and co. playing the album in its entirety across two night sets around the UK and Europe.

10 Sep 2024

Poetry ⸱ Rosie Cook

moments

When thoughts never stop Moments sometimes tinge with an off-coloured brown Like old cigarettes Or paper that’s been burnt at the sides. Moments All white and crisp Until the flaming end Of rolled up paper and tobacco Preys on the corners edge Threatening to let it all go Up

6 Sep 2024

News ⸱ Graham Thomas

An evening in the cinema with Amenno

A collective of filmmakers creating art on their own terms. They get out there, they shoot it, they support each other, and they get it on screen. Amenno are ‘making their own industry’

4 Sep 2024

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The Boxkart Rebel Arrives…

TheNevePress host their first live event - an evening of literary magic, live readings, music, DJs and high-end stationery and it was, all trumpets trumpeting, flipping wicked.

Time Wasters

Little pumps in bed, Little repeats at brek

Rebel Stationery launch with Holly & Co

Rebel Stationery have brought their debut collection of beautiful diaries, notebooks, planners and gifting accessories to Holly & Co – a brand new luxury marketplace by Holly Tucker MBE.

to not need

It’s nice to not need anything To sit softly in the hangover haze slow and fuzzy happenings around me

Hat

Hat floating in the air cradling a body not there Especially yours Majestic mystery of mastery nestled in finely kept roses That (probably) smell the same as when you were here. Is it wrong? A museum made of house A patchwork of was and is and may still be Are

A Mundane Funeral

Nobody seemed truly sorry for his loss. The words drifted into the lad’s ears and they held neither weight or resonance. The funeral, his first, had rolled along with a strange, dream-like autonomy. People came, readings were read and then a coffin went behind a curtain.