Friday, 29 August 2025

Speak Easy - September 2025

 











Enclosed above are the readers for September's Speak Easy (Spoken Word Open Mic night - our 10th anniversary special) at Chorlton's Dulcimer Bar , all of whom will read out their work in 4-minute segments on 04 September 2025. 

Guest Host is the original creator of Speak Easy, David Hartley. 

To go on the cancellation list (You never know), drop Andy N an email on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk, and we will see you on Thursday 04 September 2025. 

Admission is free. 

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Andy N

Amanda Nicholson 

Steve Smythe

David Hartley 

Grant Curnow

Mark Quinn

Andy Cash

Rachel Hammond

Norman Dearlove Scott

Michael Hulley (Volodya Gorky)

Beth Cater

Daniel Findell

Joe Tetley

Martin Elder

Jared More 

Dylan Sayers

Martin CM (Martin Corlettmoss)

Anne Delargy

Karen Kendrick

Ria Jones

Anthony Briscoe

Antonia Fusaro

Trystan Lewis

Stuart Atkinson

Jenny Pilkington

Thomas Marsden 

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David Hartley is a writer, researcher, tutor and performer with a taste for the strange and the wonderful. He is the author of 'Fauna' (Fly on the Wall Press) and 'Incorcisms' (Arachne Press), and has a PhD in Creative Writing with The University of Manchester where he currently teaches. In 2024, he was writer-in-residence in Tartu, Estonia where he created 'The Forest of Ink & Skin' an immersive storytelling experience about folktales, forests, and tattoos. He is also the creator and host of The Embassy of Utopia at the Festival of Libraries.

He was also the original creator and host of the very first Speak Easy, back when it started life in a small upstairs room at the Sip Club in Stretford. Reading his work in front of small audiences in weird little rooms in random pubs is still one of his favourite things...





Sunday, 24 August 2025

LKN - Part 2 - Spoken Label, August 2025 (New Podcast)

 












* Contains topics not suitable for all *


Latest up from Spoken Label, and the second part of a full-length two-part Podcast is with LKN.

LKN is a poet who won the UK's Wordplay Awards 2023. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023, 2024), T. S. Eliot Prize (2024) & Forward Prize (2025). He was part of A Given Grace by Squircle Line Press, winning the gold medal, both at America's eLit, and the Independent Book Publishers Awards 2022.

LKN has been featured at literature festivals in Toronto, Nottingham and Singapore. His poems were showcased at History Channel's HistoryCon, Weiner Holocaust Library & the Poetry Society of New York, HCE Magazine's Fire & Dust and the Polyglot Magazine.LKN was 1st runner-up at 2019 Singapore Poetry Slam and a finalist at the 2020 Toronto Poetry Slam.

He has performed as a busker and street performer in Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

https://heylink.me/thelknpoetry


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyUSujsPSVI&t=871s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q4yzIGjUjQ (Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DNv-GKgYuUr/ (Chat)

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DNv-PzV3L4h/ (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/025e1004-ea18-426d-802d-1472d5d38ece/spoken-label-lkn-spoken-label-august-2025 

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/LKN-Spoken-Label-August-2025/B0FN6RRPMB?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=S3PKHKVWDBSG9B8588DM&plink=cseV2sSMeVhZSXeF&pageLoadId=wMJYYg9itGGVwwD2&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/LKN-Spoken-Label--August-2025-e34vvl8

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lkn-spoken-label-august-2025/id1501847969?i=1000722862165

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1LWvsDW952wVgRecJWSko8




Sunday, 17 August 2025

LKN - Part 1 (Spoken Label, August 2025)

 












Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) and the first part of a full-length two-part Podcast is with LKN (Lkn Yrteop)

 LKN is a poet who won the UK's Wordplay Awards 2023. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023, 2024), T. S. Eliot Prize (2024) & Forward Prize (2025). He was part of A Given Grace by Squircle Line Press, winning the gold medal, both at America's eLit, and the Independent Book Publishers Awards 2022. 

LKN has been featured at literature festivals in Toronto, Nottingham and Singapore. His poems were showcased at History Channel's HistoryCon, Weiner Holocaust Library & the Poetry Society of New York, HCE Magazine's Fire & Dust and the Polyglot Magazine.LKN was 1st runner-up at 2019 Singapore Poetry Slam and a finalist at the 2020 Toronto Poetry Slam. 

He has performed as a busker and street performer in Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

https://heylink.me/thelknpoetry


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https://www.instagram.com/p/DNc_PaLu68V/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMOyelleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHN0tuUm1zakxuQzRJdXNFAR6YnIHxNQyefCa5tScADSSRqYj-K915wL_aFhVVMj1wviFMZdd76Tu0X8nPjA_aem_qIVZ-9_0Cpq8cvjYFrou8w

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/LKN-Spoken-Label-Part-1-August-2025/B0FMBXZMSR?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=AE2WTRRW57H378D66XPW&plink=tu486nwAnKxbvVEO&pageLoadId=lzmSCsGOVBx0lwKG&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&fbclid=IwY2xjawMOyedleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHN0tuUm1zakxuQzRJdXNFAR6ddAq7dAmN8tdr6KoAWRbUlZl7hADabwfER8dZMy-hNXDRDqJvpiYNlArnLw_aem_cjSyp5d9uY7QU5jLGcQB_g

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/f81d4c74-7ca1-4fac-96ae-b3a999db13ae/spoken-label-lkn-spoken-label-part-1---august-2025?fbclid=IwY2xjawMOyeVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHN0tuUm1zakxuQzRJdXNFAR7OBJ_4a0i4mKY24Fxb5gOSb2FWA67o-JtawmOQDd4bpDOViTyvf-p-Qnf5GA_aem_aYbvLbrK1t7plgXpF9gClw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CaH0qpgTGU

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/LKN-Spoken-Label--Part-1---August-2025-e34si6a

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lkn-spoken-label-part-1-august-2025/id1501847969?i=1000721863284

https://open.spotify.com/episode/759tuDAxEs5pUGNIT85ltg?fbclid=IwY2xjawMOye1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHN0tuUm1zakxuQzRJdXNFAR6irYtsQVMs9PNP5EsWF9evxwERjsqvSyXppEW0QtbYA2Cw75nCabkLaOXsNQ_aem_D4kaqunE-_bKt0Jm7kEr_Q



Wednesday, 13 August 2025

New Spoken Label Podcast - Andy Farhan

 












The latest up-and-coming artist from Spoken Label, making his debut, is Andy Farhan. Andy Farhan is a Manchester-based stand-up comedian, Theatre Actor and Poet. Been a Theatre Actor for 3 years now. Been on the Radio 4x. Been doing stand-up comedy for over 1 year and runs his own Stand Up Comedy Open Mic in Manchester.

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Podcast can be streamed/downloaded from:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/andy-farhan-spoken-label-august-2025/id1501847969?i=1000720933667

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Andy-Farhan-Spoken-Label--August-2025-e34khsv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WrZF-iZGPs

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/90e8be08-c1b4-45f1-b0f2-b6a978b06ddc/spoken-label-andy-farhan-spoken-label-august-2025

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DNKqOUPgX-A/

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Andy-Farhan-Spoken-Label-August-2025/B0FLF7QXYM?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=V8T6MMPH6N2AMZTM9TQM&plink=FTn3QbyPP2RlpStJ&pageLoadId=ETScXpvdnKWN2aY0&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SGo93RWAiYFEPvmqTv3Kx







Monday, 4 August 2025

Echoes of August - The End of Summer II

 













The season ends. The story continues.

Celebrating the 10th year anniversary of his second full length poetry collection, Andy N has returned to this series of poetry with a brand new collection called ‘Echoes of August (The End of Summer II).
Told again in taut, flickering fragments, these pieces map the fading edges of summer through memory and dying lights, geographic imprints and love, loss, and abolescence to be read over and over in the wind.
'The End of Summer II' as well as being a direct sequel to ‘The End of Summer’ deepens the emotional arc begun in the first volume, leaving readers adrift in beauty, haunted by nostalgia, and quietly changed.
For fans of Epic 45 and July Skies, Hugo Williams, and the delicate melancholy of watching a gate blow gently in the breeze of late August.

Out on Amazon with more places to follow. 









Sunday, 3 August 2025

Martin CM - Spoken Label (New Podcast, August 2025)

 










Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features making his debut is the wonderful Martin CM.

Martin tells his work are "are written to make people smile—or better yet, laugh. They’re intentionally different from the well-meaning, earnest, intense, political kind. His work leans towards the disrespectful: often irreverent, occasionally rude, and usually self-deprecating.

These are poems with little in the way of hidden meanings — written to be performed, not puzzled over. That said, they do often carry a thread of social commentary.Martin has performed across various venues in the North West. A career highlight? Making the Top Four at the Liverpool Fringe—something he proudly (and constantly) reminds his family of.

His book Poems for People Who Don’t Like Poetry is available on Amazon—and has sold dozens!

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/martin-cm-spoken-label-august-2025/id1501847969?i=1000719600621

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Martin-CM-Spoken-Label--August-2025-e34j3if

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSPQ6ond9Gc (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_CuNqIIMqA (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/b7b2b9b2-040f-4e29-afec-4b7bfca16f82/spoken-label-martin-cm-spoken-label-august-2025

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3VellOwtfZd8l7QomQsCrl

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DM4nK69NATw/ (Chat)

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DM4nVmUuNrW/ (Reading)

The tik tok preview is at: https://www.tiktok.com/@andynwriter/video/7533350873435540758

Sunday, 27 July 2025

Anthony Doyle - Spoken Label New Podcast July 2025

 









Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry/Spoken Word Podcast) features the return of our friend Anthony Doyle in a full-length Podcast.

Anthony Doyle was born in Dublin and raised in Wicklow, Ireland. He has been living in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2000, where he works as a translator of fiction, non-fiction and film scripts from Portuguese. 

In addition to short stories and poems, he published the children’s book O Lago Secou (Companhia das Letrinhas, Brazil, 2013) and the novel Hibernaculum (Out Of This World Press, USA, 2023). 

He is a member of the Old Scratch Press short-form collective.This Podcast talks primarily about his new book Jonahs Map of the Whale and other poems which is described as "Dive into the mythic in Jonah's Map of the Whale and Other Poems, a daring and dazzling collection from Anthony Doyle (author of Hibernaculum). 

In the submerged world of Flounder- part everyman, part flatfish-shipwrecked longing, philosophical wit, and lyrical precision converge.Doyle's sea-born metaphors shimmer with heartbreak, absurdity, and revelation across the tide pools of memory and myth. From underwater boathouses to data-streamed cubicles, Doyle threads ancient voices through postmodern pulses. Featuring Flounder, Blundra, Alex Iden Gray, and more, this collection drifts between high poetry and sly humor, from trenches of despair to flickers of grace. Jonah's Map of the Whale and Other Poems is a poetic deep-sea dive into the soul accessible to poetry and literature fans alike."

Podcast be streamed / downloaded from: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/anthony-doyle-spoken-label-july-2025/id1501847969?i=1000718566111

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Anthony-Doyle-Spoken-Label--July-2025-e34j2h6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzpzZAS1zLY (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmW3yJumv-8 (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/1b98ded2-616b-4b90-a0d9-d7d3dc5d6870/spoken-label-anthony-doyle-spoken-label-july-2025

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DMnE-g2NCQV/ (Chat Segment)

https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reel/DMnFETBOY-5/ (Reading Segment)

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Anthony-Doyle-Spoken-Label-July-2025/B0FJLJBX2H?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=4M9XAAGFWTSDNMHMWX8B&plink=6VNaZPt8bLMRA3sk&pageLoadId=gfTRMdiPOmcppmih&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rP6gXNu2YT2qtpan2njgW

The tik tok preview is at: https://www.tiktok.com/@andynwriter/video/7530704671648877846