Andy N - Writer, Podcaster and Ambient Musician: May 2024

Sunday 19 May 2024

New Spoken Label Podcast - Isabelle Kenyon

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend, Isabelle Kenyon.

Isabelle Kenyon (Belle to me) is a Manchester writer and the author of 5 chapbooks including Growing Pains (Indigo Dreams). She has had work and articles published internationally and newspapers such as The Somerville Times and The Bookseller.

She is also the founder of Fly on the Wall Press.

Fly on the Wall is a social enterprise company and a not-for-profit publisher, based in Manchester. We publish high-quality anthologies on pressing issues, chapbooks and poetry products, from exceptional poets around the globe, with socially conscious themes.

This Podcast primarily talks about her debut novel 'The Dark within them'.

The Dark within them is described as "In this gripping psychological thriller, faith-healer Amber thinks she's found peace in Lehi, the small Mormon town she's moved her family to. But when a death affects her family, her safe haven shatters. As the tight-knit community closes ranks to protect its secrets at all costs, Amber's world unravels. With her beliefs shaken and nothing feeling certain anymore, she's faced with an impossible choice: take a leap of faith to protect her loved ones, or risk losing everything by exposing the truth.

"Luring you in with promises of happily ever after, Kenyon quickly removes any feelings of comfort..." - The Northern Bookworm

But how far is too far when it comes to protecting those you love?

A TIGHT-KNIT MORMON COMMUNITY.

BODIES BURIED IN THE GARDEN.

ONE FAMILY DIVIDED.

‘intense and compelling…an enormously talented writer’ - Shabnom Khanom

'a honed and beautiful writing style…not your usual psychological thriller’ - Debz Hobbs-Wyatt

'A must-read for fans of Paula Hawkins or M. T. Edvarsson... A gripping, pacy thriller.' - Northern Soul Magazine

'Isolated and without even her faith to call on, Amber is left to determine how much darkness is really within her.' - The Northern Bookworm

'Kenyon’s book explores themes of faith, motherhood and marriage with nuance. At the same time, the plot propels the reader forward with the claustrophobic tension of recent grip-lit classics like The Girl on the Train.' - Crime Culture Magazine"

For more details go to: https://www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/isabelle-kenyon-spoken-label-may-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/isabelle-kenyon-spoken-label-may-2024/id1501847969?i=1000655723044

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Belle-Kenyon-Spoken-Label--May-2024-e2ilerv

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZWE4NDc3MDctZTJkNi00MmQyLWIwNjctMDljNmM4NGM5MDVm?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiQwt_5u5mGAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl316BZR0XA

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/0081a61f-9a75-42ff-9fd5-6d006d2a8645/spoken-label-isabelle-kenyon-spoken-label-may-2024

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Gz8LkLnaTcll_nfFphEVD_LFGTZbI2sKA2AU0/

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Belle-Kenyon-Spoken-Label-May-2024/B0D48K1T8Q?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=QKW2B7TV51ZSP5S85Y1R&pageLoadId=GsCpcmnXWn7Mo32z&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bJG9A4wAKW5aUQ1wLCt42

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/isabelle-kenyon-spoken-label-may-2024

Friday 17 May 2024

New Spoken Label Podcast - Dogstar Rose

Latest up from Spoken Label (Artist Podcast) features the singer Dogstar Rose. Dogstar Rose originates from North London and now lives in the Wirral and delivers her music with an inimitable style of sleaze and grace. Dogstar is a singer/songwriter of alternative value, and fronts the band 'futurejack'. Her performance evokes the emotion of a hard rock, punk pop, soulful personality.

Links include:

https://www.facebook.com/DogstarRose

https://www.facebook.com/futurejack

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/dogstar-rose-spoken-label-may-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dogstar-rose-spoken-label-may-2024/id1501847969?i=1000655337758

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Dogstar-Rose-Spoken-Label--May-2024-e2jcdd4

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/NWFhYTIwMDQtNmQ0OC00MDE1LTk4NWYtN2FmZWJlZDY4Nzli?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjA5t7W65SGAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl9tqW2UUas

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/5507750e-317d-4c6d-aeb5-2eaa19ec68c5/spoken-label-dogstar-rose-spoken-label-may-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Dogstar-Rose-Spoken-Label-May-2024/B0D41546KW?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_1&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=6CS2VHD71PSTSVD1N3CX&pageLoadId=Aj1Z84ZzU1UXKVzy&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7El56WxWj3ErYkeNYQGTKnolRBuuVxu6BKWcc0

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5on1LgT87DfF7lsPbnkBF7

Sunday 12 May 2024

New "Spoken Label" Podcast - Arini Vlotman

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Writer Podcast) features Arini Vlotman

Arini advises she "a romance fanatic, book worm, book hoarder and writer. Writers are my superheroes; readers are my tribe. I’m a people’s person and a wordy nerd so I can find comfort in almost any space but there is nothing quite like being at home with my husband, son and fur babies.Living in Johannesburg, South Africa has given me a slightly quirky world view- we laugh at ourselves all the time here so sometimes my sense of humor doesn’t translate into my words. Be kind, I think I’m funny!One my favourite hobbies is Fangirling (is that a thing?). Musicians, books, movies or obscure characters, when I find something that I love I delve into that world like Harry Potter diving into the Whomping Willow."

Her debut novel is "Pretty Average".

More details can be found at: https://arinivlotman.co.za/

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/arini-vlotman-spoken-label-may-2024

https://www.instagram.com/p/C63F31YMlrN8aujyNGUmyod5zmOwFPfPT9BYl80/

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/arini-vlotman-spoken-label-may-2024/id1501847969?i=1000654982018

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Arini-Vlotman-Spoken-Label--May-2024-e2ilene

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/YWVmMTBkM2QtZmZjOC00N2EwLWExYmItOTA1NmNlNzg0YzNl?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjQ7b_K0oeGAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/2f955891-abd9-4269-ba0c-a0b81f6f0bc0/spoken-label-arini-vlotman-spoken-label-may-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Arini-Vlotman-Spoken-Label-May-2024/B0D3K2QB84?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=HNA5M3DQ7NSJWGG63GXM&pageLoadId=vwkagoS06ly58MP6&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X28K63QbVw&t=49s

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7JDYB7wBepISrabhnGSUoI

Monday 6 May 2024

New Podcast - Spoken Label Podcast - M. L. Liebler

The latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features the wonderful M. L. Liebler.

M. L. Liebler is an internationally known & widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer.

He was named The 2017-2018 Murray E. Jackson Scholar in the Arts Award at Wayne State University. Liebler is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream (Wayne State University Press 2008) featuring poems written in and about Russia, Israel, Germany, Alaska and Detroit. Wide Awake won both The Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellenceand The American Indie Book Award for 2009.

In 2005, he was named St. Clair Shores (his hometown) first Poet Laureate. Liebler has read and performed his work in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Russia, China, France, UK, Macao, Italy, Germany, Spain, Finland and most of the 50 States.

M.L. Liebler has taught English, Creative Writing, American Studies, Labor Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1980, and he is the founding director of both The National Writer's Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization. He was selected as Best Detroit Poet by The Detroit Free Press & Detroit's Metro Time. Liebler became the Co-Editor In 2010, he received The Barnes & Noble Poets & Writers Writers for Writers Award with Maxine Hong Kingston & Junot Diaz.

In 2011, his groundbreaking anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock & Kicking Out the James (Coffee House Press) was given a 2011 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award. In 2017, Liebler received a total of 4 Library of Michigan Notable Book Awards for both his new collection of poems entitled I Want to Be Once (Wayne State University Press / Made in Michigan Series) and for Heaven Was Detroit: An Anthology of Detroit Music Essays from Jazz to Hiphop (The Wayne State University Press Painted Turtle Series) Editor. Bob Seger's House: An Anthology of Michigan Short Stories (Co-Editor with Mike Delp). Both Heaven Was Detroit and Bob Seger's House are Finalist for the prestigious Forward Book Awards.

2020 saw the release of RESPECT: Poets on Detroit Music edited by M. L. Liebler & Jim Daniels (Michigan State University Press 2020). RESPECT just received both a 2021 Tillie Olsen Award & 2021 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award. In September 2020, M. L. was awarded the Michigan Humanities Champion of the Year.

Liebler received a Wayne State University Distinguished Scholar Award for 2024-2026. He curretly directs The WSU Humanities Commons and The Detroit Writers' Guild.

M.L. Liebler can be contacted on his website https://www.mlliebler.com/

Can be downloaded / streamed from:

Can be streamed / downloaded from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/ml-spoken-label-may-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m-l-liebler-spoken-label-may-2024/id1501847969?i=1000654222320

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/M--L--Liebler-Spoken-Label--May-2024-e2ileac

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/6ff3b4e0-e048-4c1f-9c5d-dc5c263dd33b/spoken-label-m-l-liebler-spoken-label-may-2024

https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/M-L-Liebler-Spoken-Label-May-2024/B0D34BMW3X?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=J1KQZA85SR95JXT5QRJ7&pageLoadId=UbdkQOQOc3fEgifQ&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pWObcDdURlrUvQ3LDkBL1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDn428Gb7b8&t=2s (Reading)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDn428Gb7b8&t=2s (Chat)

Friday 3 May 2024

Speak Easy thank you's for May 2024 and how to book for June 2024

After the last week or two which haven't being great pesonally, our Spoken Word Open Mic Night ‘Speak Easy’ was a great night once again and picked me right up.

With a combined audience I guess of 55 to 60 people, we had the place rocking with Steve doing a sterling job of hosting, we would like to thank the following for reading:

1) David Bond

2) Sam Tovey

3) Anne Delargy

4) Chris Platt

5) Andy Cash

6) Natasha Tingle

7) David Hardy

8) Heather Skowood

9) Andy N

10) Gordon Zola

11) Steve Smythe

12) Amanda Nicholson

13) Connie Rigby

14) Anne Fitzgibbon

15) Tony Rogers

16) Becky May

17) Martin Elder

18) Joe Tetley

19) Martin COM

20) Alan Griffith

21) Lindy Newns

22) Dave Viney

The next Speak Easy will be Thursday June 2024 at Dulicmer, Chorlton as always and bookings will open for it on Sunday 05 May 2024 from midday by emailing me Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk.

We do have pictures of everybody who read and hopefully a full audio which should be out over the next few days.

Thanks Andy, Amanda and Steve

Wednesday 1 May 2024

New Podcast - Various - Spoken Label Podcast (May 2024)

Latest Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) is a various artist Poetry Podcast co-hosted with ML Liebler (whose own Podcast will follow next) featuring several of his student and a fellow young creative writing faculty member.

Alexis Ball is a 20-year-old English and creative writing student at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. They are passionate about poetry and have been writing since they learned the alphabet. Alexis hopes to one day work for an editing and publishing company and possibly become a college professor later in life.

Nicholas Lowengruber I've been writing poetry since 2016 after reading an excerpt from Walden, but I didn't really know what I was doing until studying under poets at Wayne State University like ML and Robert Laidler. One of my biggest regrets so far is ever reading Ezra Pound; I how I wanted to be him growing up (except without being a fascist), and I still need to take time before I learn to appreciate the respect for imagery and the capability to take an object and look at it through many different lenses that Pound instilled in me. I'm wrapping up my third year at Wayne State University, double majoring in Philosophy and English; thinking too much is a curse, and I'm learning to work with it. Regarding my more current work, I'm an e.e. cummings devotee and continuing to learn to make poetry weird, turning towards the Language movement. Currently pondering Eve's morally questionable decision to leave Caleb trapped at the end of Ex Machina after everything that they went through.

Robert Laidler is a young creative writing faculty member.

Contact details:

mlliebler@aol.com (ML Liebler)

Rtlaidle@wayne.edu, (Robert Laidler)

hg8410@wayne.edu (Nicholas Lowengruber)

alexis.ball@wayne.edu (Alexis Ball)

Can be downloaded/streamed from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/various-spoken-label-may-2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/various-spoken-label-april-2024/id1501847969?i=1000653975590

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Various-Spoken-Label--April-2024-e2ile2j

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZTA4NmI1MDUtMzcyYi00NzI0LThjZTctM2FmMjU3ZTM0ZTU0?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwig2LW07-uFAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqYBn1Ux5Zs