Speak Easy Readers - October 2023

 

Coming up next Thursday (Thursday 05 October 2023)

is the next night of Speak Easy, our monthly spoken word night

at Dulicmer, Chorlton featuring the following readers

(Not in order) who will entertain you with 4 minute slots 

of their work.

Night starts at 7.30pm. Free Admission. All welcome to

watch. Email Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk to go on the subs

list for cancellations etc. 

Andy N

Danny McLoughlin 

Daniel Findell

Andy Cash 

David Bond 

Martin Elder 

Luke P

Gordon Zola 

Joseph Marsh  

Jeffarama! 

Tony Rogers 

Tom Butterworth 

Grant Curnew

Exception 

Amanda Nicholson

Polly Anna 

Amy Langley

Cordelia Birkbek 

Zainab Ahmad 

Maia Ballard 

Eve Nortley 

Tracey Walker 

Hannah Ledlie 

Quigley CB

Paul Blackburn - R.I.P.

 

Sad news to read about Paul Blackburn passing earlier on today.

I first met Paul at either Write Out Middleton or Write Out Sale somewhere around the 2008 territory and always found an entertaining and funny guy to meet and see/hear read and the energy he put into the early days of Write Out Loud and later the work he did with Live from Worktown / PreeTa Press deserves respect from everybody alone.

My favourite story I remember was just before lockdown at Write Out Loud Stockport in the summer of 2019 I guess when he bought along a copy of a book that had just been published. I remember it saying on the writer’s quotes at the back when looking at a quote from the American Novelist ‘Paul Auster’ stating ‘I admire you’.

People will know Auster is one of my favourite novelists and I asked Paul B where he got that from. Paul stated this was at a Launch for his novel 4,3,2,1 in Manchester where he got talking to the great man and Auster said ‘I admire you’. Paul B then quickly asked him Can I use that? And well..

I certainly wouldn’t have had the guts to ask him. He has my respect for that LOL. Rest easy m8. You’ve done a great service to poetry / spoken word in Manchester and the North West (UK)

 

New Spoken Label Session - Fee Marshall

 

Over to Leeds (UK) today for Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) with the amazing Fee Marshall making their debut.

More about Fee can be found at: www.instagram.com/felixorfee/

 

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/fee-marshall-spoken-label-september-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/fee-marshall-spoken-label-september-2023/id1501847969?i=1000628870100

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Fee-Marshall-Spoken-Label--September-2023-e29lh1c

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/MDRkZGUxZDktOWVhZS00NTgwLTlhY2EtODM5Y2Q4Mjk1YzI3?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwi4w9vpnMOBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWWpSliMYvg&t=10s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01dt4FoNo8g&t=1s (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/d4b870e0-5ac3-4aef-9629-c08a8f370599/spoken-label-fee-marshall-spoken-label-september-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxklgFhRBNulF69qm6VTFN9UDOZjulufaum8040/ (Chat)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxklthOs4w1TrEbbXqBRtxdnOYCIUtBmV4E_Fw0/ (Reading)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Fee-Marshall-Spoken-Label-September-2023-Podcast/B0CJMV3BVV?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=MT77K2ATEJ1F0CYS0KF7&pageLoadId=w2GqK7CLMuODIED7&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4fPvAT7R15qcRWj6Pr230j

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/fee-marshall-spoken-label-september-2023

New Spoken Label (Podcast) Lou Ann Bardash

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Artist Podcast) making her debut is a dear friend of ours, the wonderful - the singer and artist Lou Ann Bardash.

Lou Ann's bio advises "Originally from Effingham, IL, Lou Ann attended Southern Illinois University, graduating with a degree in Music Business before moving to Nashville with her first series of original songs. She spent the next 18 years singing, playing music and making art. Since moving to Austin in 1999, she has exhibited and sold her work in coffee houses and restaurants, while also producing nonprofit workplace art installations at agencies such as Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid and United Way. Her 13-piece art series, Alzheimer’s Memories, was featured in a live tv show on Channel Austin, during which Lou Ann walked through the exhibit while discussing the story behind each painting. "

Her website is https://www.louannbardash.com/  As a bonus after the chat features - a song is included with Lou Ann and her husband Tom Ovans - a cover off Tom's song with Lou Ann singing 'Song for the Homeless' from an album both her and Tom are working on.

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/lou-ann-spoken-label-september-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/lou-ann-bardash-spoken-label-september-2023/id1501847969?i=1000628064593

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Lou-Ann-Bardash-Spoken-Label--September-2023-e299or3

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/YzA4MGQxZGItMmQ1Yy00MGIwLTliZGMtYTY5MGQyNDhmNzhk?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiIi-m4nrGBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PbM8egXPWs

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/dbaabdaf-9ba3-4051-b46d-09c6a829d80c/spoken-label-lou-ann-bardash-spoken-label-september-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxSNTQ8LQCIaT4DcwlBha8Zzx_b0_8hNxIpbAk0/

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CJ6H94WF?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=45QZR347B0GW43BDGGX5&pageLoadId=Uztmn7tueeJUDyTN&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3W19g3NpGsbftVE1w8U1xJ

Mary F&&king Poppins - New Podcast on Spoken Label

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Poetry Podcast) features the debut from Liverpool, Mary F&&king Poppins.

Mary is a working-class writer/poet.

She makes the UK Literary zine Word Vomit and also hosts the Word Vomit Open Mic Poetry Night at Round The Corner, Liverpool.

She has recently bought out her debut collection "Hop on the Bad Foot and do the good thing'

Some links:

Some links:

https://www.instagram.com/mary_fuckingpoppins/

https://strictlyunprofessional.bigcartel.com/

https://www.instagram.com/word.vomitzine/

https://falaun.bandcamp.com/

 https://www.facebook.com/falaunhc/

https://www.instagram.com/back_room_poetry/

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This can be downloaded / streamed from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/mary-fucking-poppins-spoken-label-september-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/mary-fucking-poppins-spoken-label-september-2023/id1501847969?i=1000626869866

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Mary-Fucking-Poppins--Spoken-Label--September-2023-e27apun

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/YWE2MmU0N2UtZjUwNy00NDcxLTg3M2ItOTk5OWQ1MGRhYzFh?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiI07CvrqCBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

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

https://podcastaddict.com/?id=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2Fd905e90%2Fpodcast%2Fplay%2F73803159%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%252Fstaging%252F2023-6-24%252Fae460699-156e-6dda-ea06-78d4923b0181.mp3&podcastId=2748767

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/d6e1f293-8c66-40f3-9f0b-5ace790d1178/spoken-label-mary-fucking-poppins-spoken-label-september-2023

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mary-Fucking-Poppins-Spoken-Label-September-2023-Podcast/B0CHBT6K6K?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=S6V4NBZRMNS4RS4334PA&pageLoadId=Tmk7kMBS8BMr3d4Y&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxBCQd_OPOyaWtN1uHXk_UwapfESPnhiQzWra40/

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UYQ3RH7ZNVMAt5iBOgNsT

Thank you from Speak Easy last night

 

Another great night last night for Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word Open Mic night at Dulicmer, Chorlton) – we had 21 readers with somewhere around 50 people in total.

Me, Steve Smythe and Amanda Nicholson would like to thank the following readers:

Trystan Lewis
Martin Elder
Joseph Marsh
Danny McLoughlin (Danny McLoughlin)
Thomas Butterworth
Tony Rogers
Michael Burton
Marigold Lately
Drew Garty
Joe Tetley
Cordelia Birkbeck
Italo Ferrante
David Bond
Andy N
Sara Jayne Haq
Kai Luckan
Darren Lea-grime
Hanah Ledlie
Maia Ballad
Anna Percy
Gordon Zola
Gordon Zola

The next Speak Easy will be on Thursday 05 October 2023. Bookings start from this Sunday 10 September from midday by emailing Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

I’ve got photographs and audio of nearly everybody – aiming to release all of these over the weekend.

Pictures will be on the facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/speakeasymanchester

With a selection on https://www.instagram.com/speakeasypoetryspokenword/

The audio of the night will be here https://andyn.bandcamp.com/

Kate Wilson - New Spoken Label Podcast session

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend, Kate Wilson talking about her new poetry collection 'The Impossibility of Love'.

 

‘The Impossibility of Love’ it is stated takes the reader on a journey through a gallery of Vincent Van Gogh’s best loved paintings. The poems in this collection draw inspiration from Van Gogh’s works of art, reflecting on themes of love, loss, and memory.

 

This ekphrastic sequence evokes the blistering colour of Van Gogh’s work in wheatfields, on moonlit plazas, and under starry skies. In this landscape the poet finds hope and a potency of feeling which often borders on destructive. The paintings become both a means

of escape and a way of deriving meaning as they intersect with the poet’s own experience.

 

Writing to Van Gogh with great tenderness, Wilson presents the reader with a collection which can be read as an extended love letter to one of our greatest artists.

 

She explores the tragic story of his life, posing the question: what does it mean to live with such intensity?

 

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/kate-wilson-spoken-label-august-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/kate-wilson-spoken-label-august-2023/id1501847969?i=1000621316340

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Kate-Wilson-Spoken-Label--August-2023-e270q6g

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/MjQxMmI3OTctMzg3OS00MjA4LWE3YjYtMTc1ZmE0OTZhNTVj?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwigt-jIl4-BAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwdztC99H8A&t=8s (Interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2wPMvIq9LA (Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cws2Fz4twyr-YMLHH99yXCUYzq4_rI636XAnNs0/ (Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cws13ceM_VrMb6r9c4ydLCq4sHzwzPDIPkiZjM0/ (Interview)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Kate-Wilson-Spoken-Label-August-2023-Podcast/B0CGPGGQX2?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=AS1DM7REMST7QJZNZ21P&pageLoadId=DGFVVocqDON2aO4j&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LSdU1yPvkWUXvHObaj9Xg

and all the usual places

Birth - Blurb for my debut novel

 

Step into the mesmerizing world of "Birth," the debut novel by Manchester-based poet, podcaster, and ambient musician, Andy N.

Delve deep into the psyche of a young writer as this extraordinary tale offers a poetic, sad, and often hilarious portrait of his coming-of-age journey as his creativity is almost literally dragged out of him into the beginning of his journey as a poet, into fronting a five-piece acoustic band, and so much more.

In this captivating narrative, the reader is taken on a profound exploration of the writer's upbringing, skillfully woven with evocative prose that casts a spellbinding charm. "Birth" is a novel where the young writer's world is painted with a palette of feelings, where joy and sorrow dance hand in hand, and humor is found even in the darkest corners.

"Birth" is more than just a novel; it is an ode to the human spirit, a celebration of the written word, and a testament to the resilience of the creative soul.

So, open the cover and step into the world of "Birth," where the boundaries between reality and fiction fade, and the heart of a young writer beats with unyielding passion. What happens next is a testament to the magic of storytelling and the boundless potential of a pen.

* Should be out in November *