Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) and our 2nd Podcast of the year, features making her debut, the wonderful Suzy Aspell.
Suzy advises she writes in her spare time. She lives and works in Bedfordshire, UK, with her cheeky, very pampered cat. She has worked in the Airline industry for nearly forty years, apart from a year working as a travel rep in Spain and five years teaching English as a second language in Taiwan. While in Taiwan, Suzy wrote, produced and performed two plays at the Tainan Civic Centre, for her fellow teachers.
Suzy was known as the ‘English Nerd’ in school but paused her love for literature due to having day jobs, in which she embraced her fervour for travel instead. Returning to the UK to bring up her daughter, Suzy enrolled in the Open University and emerged with a BA in Humanities with English Literature. Armed with her degree, Suzy has tutored many students since 2008, mainly GCSE English students struggling with dyslexia and ADHD. Suzy’s nerves are shredded every August in anticipation of GCSE results.
Whilst furloughed during COVID, Suzy joined numerous poetry workshops which have now become an essential part of her life. It is thanks to these Poetry Mentors that Suzy has been published, and encouraged to perform at Spoken Word events.
Just like her nan, Suzy nurtures a novel inside, watch this space!
You can follow Suzy here:
Bluesky – @susisu371.bsky.social
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/susan.aspell
Instagram/Threads – @susisu37
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzy-a-95040839/
Twitter – @susisu371
This Podcast discusses her debut book 'Webstrung' published by Poetic Edge Publishers
which is described as by Wendy Pratt "Suzy Aspell’s poems take the reader on a magical journey: often profound and always imaginative the poems bloom from their ekphrastic origins into whole worlds of their own. A very special collection and one to revisit.
~Wendy Pratt, Author of The Ghost Lake and Blackbird Singing At Dusk"
More details on the book can be found here:
https://poeticedgepublishers.com/suzy-aspell/
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available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMvtkstZZTw&t=1s (Chat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiYP_kAdVlo&t=1s (Reading)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/20vBMQhzkcdw8nyl9irGT9
https://andynartist.substack.com/p/suzy-aspell-spoken-label-january
