Back on Poetry Non-Stop today reading out a poem from my last poetry book ‘Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’
This can be heard here
Official Blog of Andy N - author of books such as 'The End of Summer' and 'Birth of Autumn', co-host of Spoken Word night 'Speak Easy', ambient musician with Ocean in a Bottle and Podcast host of Spoken Label and Reading in Bed among others
Back on Poetry Non-Stop today reading out a poem from my last poetry book ‘Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’
This can be heard here
Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Patrick Widdess.
Patrick Widdess is the founder and presenter of Poetry Non-Stop. He was born in Cambridge and now lives in Norwich where he works as a production journalist and fills his time writing, podcasting, taking photos and performing improv comedy.
Patrick’s poetry and prose has appeared in Agenda, Cake, The Interpreter’s House, The Guardian and Orbis among other publications. He has also written reviews and features for Clash Music, Drunken Werewolf, Local Secrets and others and has written for the BBC.
Originally from Cambridge Patrick now lives in Norwich where he works as a production journalist and freelance writer.
Links include: http://patrickwiddess-writer.weebly.com/
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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/patrick-widdess-spoken-label-april-2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/patrick-widdess-spoken-label-april-2024/id1501847969?i=1000652707643
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTGaLXVAbDA
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5-MTMXR6_wUB5SllYiq0G7eWILzUB92GQwtkc0/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zkSAwOorfnz9hvmLRRZFc
Latest
up from and guest hosted by Amanda Nicholson (Cloaked in the Shadows / Not the
TV Guide and novelist of books such After the Zombies and Not Human as Amanda
Steel), the latest Spoken Label session run in conjunction with seahorse
records features the return of our friend, the amazing Grant Curnow.
Grant Curnow is an alternative comedian/ tragic novelty folk singer – amateur
time lord. Based in Manchester, Grant has performed 3 full length shows at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of the PBH Fringe: Amateur Time Lord Hour
(2016), A New Folk (2018), and Salvador Dalek (20220. Currently touring
Salvador Dalek throughout the UK and has played various comedy festivals
(Leicester Comedy Festival, Faversham Fringe, Morecambe Fringe, Buxton Fringe,
Greater Manchester Fringe).
Grant is always found with a ukulele and his trusted comedy sidekick, Mini
Dalek.
His debut album "Troubles of an Amateur Timelord" is out on seahorse
records
We
will be at the live launch tonight at the Album launch at @kingssalford this Saturday 13th April. Doors from 7.30pm.
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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/grant-curnow-spoken-label-april-2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF5LOLYZ0DA&t=183s
https://www.instagram.com/andynpoet/reels/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0WBGNeGM5VWRK7019ykPEP
Latest up from Spoken Label
(Spoken Word Podcast) features Kate Jenkinson.
Kate Jenkinson is scientist and
poet reconciled and is one of a handful of LinkedIN Business Poets. She likes
hats, writes about the many ones she wears (Mother, Daughter, Friend, Coach,
entrepreneur) and she enjoys performing at open mics and slams since the
pandemic made the poetry community more accessible. In 2022 she performed her
TEDx talk Poetry Never Abandons Us and she enjoys attending and headlining
events internationally.
Her work can be found in
EyeFlash, Good DadHood, Steel Jackdaw, Flight of the Dragonfly and Feral (their
first Mother/Daughter poetry and art collaboration).
Kate recently realised she was
neurodivergent so this and her aphantasia is a feature of her recent work.
Some links for Kate include:
www.facebook.com/groups/712462824367836/
www.instagram.com/k8jenkinson/
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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/kate-jenkinson-spoken-label-april-2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTyzTxVNyYs
(Chat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YvvxOB8Ja4&t=6s
(Chat Part 2 / Reading)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5ftW_MMYkJPMBfOFNjnm41PWiQltKwHOtiafM0/
(Chat)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5fzLTvLnPN45obynWe-t94_h3RLB2TinT09Sg0/
(Chat Part 2 / Reading)
Thanks to everybody for Speak Easy from Thursday Night. A
really busy night as can be seen on the pictures which we will be releasing
over the weekend or start of next week (We are having slight internet issues today),
Amanda and me reckon it was somewhere around 60 to 70 people there in total and
guest hosted by the wonderful Lindy Newns who did a sterling job in place of
Steve.
Thank you to the following readers:
Lindy Newns
L.T. Hardy
Tony Rogers
David Hardy
Polly Riggs
Andy Cash
Kevin Bamford
Connie Rigby
Amanda Nicholson
Andy N
Liam Barker
Alan Griffith
Sam Tovey
Martin Elder
Roxanne
Roy Page
Kate Hook
Martin Cm
We have pictures of everybody and audio too (which will
appear on andyn.bandcamp.com).
The next Speak Easy in May will be on Thurs 02 May 2024 from
7.30pm, Host T.B.A., bookings will start from this Sunday 07 May 2024 from 12
Noon.
Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) featuring making her debut, the amazing Hannah Ledlie. Hannah is an Edinburgh-born, Manchester-based writer, interested in form and futurism. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the BBC Young Writers’ Award, and in 2019 she was a winner of Penguin’s ‘Platform Pride’ poetry competition. Her work has featured in a number of publications, including Ambit, Gutter, and Magma. In 2022, Hannah completed her MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. One note on the recording, Hannah advised me afterwards she mentioned a Facebook group where people exchanged poems during lockdown, and I said Honey Baxter set it up- but it was actually Raina Greifer who made the group. We both would like to apologise for this error. Her Instagram page is: https://www.instagram.com/hannahledlie/ her email address is: hannahledlie@gmail.com
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https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hannah-ledlie-spoken-label-march-2024/id1501847969?i=1000650918092
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Hannah-Ledlie-Spoken-Label--March-2024-e2hgvhi
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ODAyZGNmNzUtMjAzOC00ZjVlLWFhYzMtNDE5NTM1ZjZiODMy?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiA-5eM7qaFAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/0120e14b-e392-4f84-ab67-5d08b3c56a79/spoken-label-hannah-ledlie-spoken-label-march-2024
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ODAyZGNmNzUtMjAzOC00ZjVlLWFhYzMtNDE5NTM1ZjZiODMy?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiA-5eM7qaFAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONJDWlLILug (Chat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buwPwGcNc7c (Reading)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5RR2RjN-oZ_YGhoBOYpEVIT5DD_n_yGuocdgI0/ (Chat)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5RSCbKtgkeW_6gD196I7gQjUQ1CO8K0RjG_1c0/ (Reading)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7iVHKxZntZo2T1A7ijoDej
https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Hannah-Ledlie-Spoken-Label-March-2024/B0CZJ1Z2ZP?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_podcast_S_c4_lAsin_0_1&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=A77G0ZRCW5BJAN6AS1DW&pageLoadId=3B2zQOXTv7JskeSk&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8
Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) features making his debut, Adrian Slatcher.
Adrian Slatcher was born in Staffordshire in 1967. He studied English at Lancaster University, and creative writing at the University of Manchester. He has co-edited several literary magazines, and is a trustee of Castlefield Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Manchester. His fiction has featured in a number of anthologies, including Best British Short Stories. He has published two poetry pamphlets: Extracts from Levona (2010) and Playing Solitaire for Money (2010).
This Podcast primarily talks about his debut stories collection Loners.
Loners is a collection of six stories by Adrian Slatcher, three of which are published for the first time. It also features images created by the artist Steven Heaton in response to the stories. The book is the second in a series of collaborations between writers and artists - the first, Interpolated Stories by David Rose and Leah Leaf, was published in 2022.
The stories vary widely in form, from ‘Last Testament of a Lighthouse Keeper’, ostensibly a written journal, to ‘sleeveless itchery and parched throat’, an unpunctuated monologue. While all six stories are about ‘loners’ in one way or another, it would be wrong to think of the characters as being without hope – in each case, their isolation is something they are trying to break out of, in search of redemption, often after some kind of trauma. The characters are loners out of either choice or circumstance, but it is never easy to be alone.
The book can be purchased here - https://www.confingopublishing.uk/loners
Adrian's website is https://adrianslatcher.wordpress.com/
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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/adrian-slatcher-spoken-label-march-2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX_nvs9E-zk (Chat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lzkF1wMC8E (Reading)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5F4_ags6USBpGevsMFybA-4MzCc2_9qkEWNDs0/ (Chat)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5F9dX6tLkIinXM3wxa85RMLVA8uXZCOtM-ti80/ (Reading)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Fgr6RSEmDATyoG8xuh3WW