New Spoken Label Podcast - Clive Oseman

 

New on Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) and last for 2023 (with lots more to come of course) features the return of our friend Clive Oseman.

Clive Oseman is a multi-slam winning spoken word artist, comedian, satirist, surrealist, story teller and workshop facilitator from Birmingham but currently based in Swindon, UK. He has headlined and featured around the UK and internationally, with appearances at the New York City poetry festival and on spoken word stages at several UK music festivals. 

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/clive-oseman-spoken-label-december-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/clive-oseman-spoken-label-december-2023/id1501847969?i=1000639831809

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Clive-Oseman-Spoken-Label--December-2023-e2d2hq6

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/N2I4MGJhM2EtZmE4Yy00MTQ2LWI2ODItYTljMWZjMmU3MDhm?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj4juih_7mDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN4wp5ly6As&t=1s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8gUlFJNIsc&t=1s (Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/83537b83-6faa-465a-a64d-51759070071a/spoken-label-clive-oseman-spoken-label-december-2023

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1gzpUOu_2A8lZWbRHZNKigHOHDvuY4aD46Tao0/ (Chat)

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1g0Ue-OXI4UwAcdqWIEqQ4ljq965nj7qIyJj40/ (Reading)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Clive-Oseman-Spoken-Label-December-2023-Podcast/B0CR1M37QP?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=XZ43M8DFG3HBT79YTZWQ&pageLoadId=ASbtzKgsuUZhdJqz&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5911cAc9pX7iXX8P8OFZ7B

Speak Easy Readers - January 2024

 

Enclosed below is the list of readers for Speak Easy next week (Thursday 04 January 2024) as always at Dulcimer, Chorlton.

The night starts around 7.30pm and we have the following readers who will all read their work through 4-minute slots.

 

Andy N

Steve

Luke P

Roy Page

David Bond

Gordon Zola

Andy Cash

Daniel Findell

Martin Elder

Nate Hardy

Peter Humphreys

Giles Gough

Phil Coleman

Joe Tetley

Chris Platt

Amanda Nicholson

Eve Nortley

Miss Understood

Cathie Pixie

Naomi Bowes

Liam Thompson

Alan Griffith

Danny McLoughlin

Josh Lonsdale

Heather Skowood 

To go on the subs list, please email Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk with the title of the email ‘Speak Easy’ to make sure it doesn’t get missed.

 

New Spoken Label Podcast - Jackie Morrey Grace

 

The latest Spoken Label Podcast (Spoken Word Podcast) features the return of our friend, the wonderful Jackie Morrey Grace.

Based in the Isle of Man, Jackie is a writer of YA Fantasy Fiction, Trombonist and Story-telling Performance Poet.

In this Podcast, we talk about Jackie's latest collection "There are Worse Places to Hide than Inside Secrets".

What has been said about Jackie's work "

Jackie’s work is incredible. Sweet, satisfying and explosive all at once. It’s like each poem is its own honeypot set to detonate – with a flow so captivating that the audience just drops their guard.’ Mark Grist. Teacher, poet, international rap battler and star of internationally acclaimed podcast, Mark Can’t Rap.

‘Sometimes a poet gets right under you skin from showcasing a memorable way of looping words into a masterpiece. Jackie Morrey-Grace is exactly that uniquely beautiful artist.’ Kelly Van Nelson. No 1 bestselling author of poetry collections, Graffiti Lane and Punch and Judy.

‘I was moved by how it not only gives the feeling of discovering an old tale re-wrought as a modern myth, but also the power of this soul-searching journey that wracks the brain, heart and body.’ Story From Stone author, Vicky Lloyd-West, reviewing On Ravensdale Hill for Isle of Man Newspapers."

More details about Jackie and her work can be found here - jackiemorreygrace.weebly.com  

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/jackie-morrey-grace-spoken-label-december-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jackie-morrey-grace-spoken-label-december-2023/id1501847969?i=1000639396650

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Jackie-Morrey-Grace-Spoken-Label--December-2023-e2d2ggk

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZjIwMTIyYjctZDVkZi00N2FiLTgyMmUtZGI4MTViNGM5OTYx?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj4o83XqbCDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7a9Em0_ggk (Part 1 - Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXmlN7715t8 (Part 2 / Reading)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/08d8f821-966f-41c1-aaa0-190449eda2f9/spoken-label-jackie-morrey-grace-spoken-label-december-2023 

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Jackie-Morrey-Grace-Spoken-Label-December-2023-Podcast/B0CQS4M1JN?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_1&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=2R2GZB82TBF7W7C6QE7X&pageLoadId=qwW7jMwpYn2cGO1r&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1X0KgeOflluo0hM9zMktaJBOxIN14tzuVqoME0/ (Part 2 Chat / Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1X0R97LOQsgRiyfPDZTr6TALgpzrTBWnQhs-o0/ (Part 1 Chat)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/03AmD1O0xOAxdkCz94lbUl

New Spoken Label Session - Gavin Prinsloo

 

Latest up on Spoken Label (Poetry / Author Podcast) from Capetown, South Africa features the wonderful Gavin Prinsloo.

Gavin’s Profile on Amazon advises he was “Born in Port Elizabeth in South Africa in 1968, I was raised in the beautiful coastal city of Cape Town receiving my schooling at Bergvliet High School in Cape Town, I matriculated in 1985.

I was raised by a foster family from the age of four, as a result of our family fracturing,

During the compulsory two years of military National Service, I joined the permanent force in the middle of 1987, attaining the rank of Sergeant.

I served until 1995, then entered the private security industry, eventually the Logistics industry, and ended up owning a small logistics business in 2016.

Suffice it to say, I was NOT a good businessman, and the company folded, as it was also heavily impacted by the worldwide pandemic, where, like so many worldwide, I lost my livelihood, my self-respect, and I think, my sanity.

In December 2019, I was diagnosed as bipolar, and to be honest, I think that was the best thing that ever could have happened.

I started writing as a catharsis, but eventually, it became a way of life for my everyday expression.

I wrote about 1300 pieces from poetry to flash fiction during 2020 and 2021 and decided to publish them on Amazon.

Reviews may be harsh as I am not an English expert, I tend to create viscerally, and in many genres.

All I can really say as a writer is that if any piece of my writing touches you in any way, I have succeeded in some way of affecting someone's life.

Writing has become my passion. I hope some of that passion reflects in my work if you should read any of my books.

To date, I reside in Tableview, Cape Town.”

His books can be bought on Amazon and he can be found on Tiktok (⁠tiktok.com/@tiktoktok_35⁠)  

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/gavin-prinsloo-spoken-label-december-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/gavin-prinsloo-spoken-label-december-2023/id1501847969?i=1000638914446

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episode/e2cmo7u

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/M2YyOGEwNmMtYWVhYy00ZjAwLWJkYmEtMjZjYmM1ZWEyNmE3?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiIgu-q856DAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4DDabNqTc&t=1s (Chat)

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

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/db1092e5-07a1-413e-9550-a6a7ad752628/spoken-label-gavin-prinsloo-spoken-label-december-2023

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1DBIDmsWcR-P7g6terEMEeTH7ttnZqQ6nygtQ0/ (Chat Part 1)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1DHOcFOaGxtNKLY8ETp3lad16x90lcR4vObzQ0/ (Chat Part 2 / Reading)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Gavin-Prinsloo-Spoken-Label-December-2023-Podcast/B0CQJT3YB4?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=X135KKZYMGESY9DAXHCQ&pageLoadId=Jv8SD2HorQ4jkqPY&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/64PbLwThjTgTDW6CN8Ml0L

Cloaked in the Shadows Episode 30 - Christmas special with Eric Loveland Heath and Victoria Clinton

 

Episode 30 of 'Cloaked in the Shadows' (Paranormal / Weird / Unusual Podcast) is a Christmas special with Plenty Wenlock Records's Eric Loveland Heath and Victoria Clinton talking about myths and weird stories linked into Xmas.

Topics covered include,  Mummers, Babushka, Mari Llwyd, a peculiar Catalan custom called The Caganer, The Yule Lads, Iceland , Kentucky Fried Christmas (in Japan), and Spider webs, in Ukraine, The Burning of the clocks in Brighten, the history of the setting on fire of puddings and jumping in the river to celebrate the new year.

Please note - this Podcast does contain Toilet Humour 

#Mummers #Babushka #MariLlwyd #TheCaganer #TheYuleLads #Iceland #Ukraine #Germany #KentuckyFriedChristmas #KentuckyFriedChicken #KFC #SpiderWebs #Weord #Ghost #Ghoststories #Paranormal #Xmas #Christmas #XmasPodcast #ChristmasPodcast #Brighton #settingonfirepuddings #ChristmasPuddings #Riverjumping #Toilethumour #toilethumour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5T2vnxfNSU

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C09zYxcrSzyU0fhpYmiuF0TdJm-sal2E_oz5s40/?fbclid=IwAR3UhcOfnwa0-ER8I1W6WDD2238mMLakyyN_Ty7_iYE4BkK2Y-w-6SsW1gI

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2089663/14152682?fbclid=IwAR2pczWrXGTN-tPent9aZzCW_jDnsQ0sDifAfk-K2Eyc84Ol2X9n1nr8nO8

New Spoken Label Session - Sam Rapp

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features the return of our friend,

the neuro-diverse writer, poet and playwright, Sam Rapp gives us a update about what she has been up since we last spoke to. Sam's book 'Rant Dyslexic me by Sam Rapp the dyslexic poet' is on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rant-Dyslexic-Me-Sam-Rapp/dp/1726167941 She is on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/s_rapp_the_dyslexic_poet_ Her facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064684000014 ** https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/sam-rapp-spoken-label-december-2023 https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sam-rapp-spoken-label-december-2023/id1501847969?i=1000638498661 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Sam-Rapp-Spoken-Label--December-2023-e2cmnk6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwUN0WEF16Y&t=2s (Chat) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbsiIYDRKts&t=1s (Reading) https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Sam-Rapp-Spoken-Label-December-2023-Podcast/B0CQ72S6CJ?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=JVMAAXK9YWG4WDHE9HXN&pageLoadId=z728qdBeuEY5F6Hk&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8 https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Za3SyEFwYkF5gbPJxBGPE https://www.instagram.com/p/C07fc6HMZ_qrXuUyQ-Rbcfz7Gpl99yBAM2Z6z80 (Reading Segment) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C07frKdLrVHjCFv1-w9LuKHAUL8_6AWot9IWFU0 (Chat Segment) https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/sam-rapp-spoken-label-december-2023 https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/07c353e4-4bd9-4a4a-a0b8-59f02d6e1d31/spoken-label-sam-rapp-spoken-label-december-2023

New Spoken Label Session - Dr Vivien Sieber.

 

Latest Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) features Dr Vivien Sieber.

Dr Vivien Sieber worked in biosciences and Higher Education and has published over 100 articles and scientific papers. Kino and Kinder: A family’s journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust is based on research into her family history and the lives of the Kinder cared for by her grandmother. It is her first book. She lives in Oxford with her husband and dogs.

This Podcast talks about her debut novel "Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust ". 

Kino and Kinder the story of a European Jewish family's struggle to survive in the face of Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust is brought into the spotlight. Vivien Sieber, reveals the terrible story through the lives and writings of the survivors, illustrating the struggle with more than eighty evocative historic photographs throughout. In 1915, Paula Ticho's family bought a cinema in Vienna. Run by Paula and her sister, Selma, two single Jewish women, the Palast Kino was a great success. As the Nazi Party rose to power in the 1930s antisemitism reared its ugly head and the wonderful cinema was forcibly taken over. Threatened by Hitler's rise to power, Paula sent her younger son, Peter, to safety in England to join his half-brother, Erich, before fleeing herself―a penniless refugee. As the world entered a state of war, Paula found herself a position as a matron at hostels in Tynemouth and Windermere, caring for twenty-five Jewish girls who had been evacuated from Europe by the famed Kindertransport. Sieber uses the girls' own descriptions of their lives and those around them to weave a heartrending tale. From the insidious rise of antisemitism during their childhood in Europe to the distress of leaving their families, adjusting to hostel life, and the trauma of surviving when most of their family perished, the accounts in this profound retelling are all at once distressing, enriching, and evocative. Combined with the myriad realities and experiences of the Tichos, a Jewish family fleeing from the atrocities of the Holocaust, and the eyewitness details about life in Vienna, Austria and Central Europe before World War Two and in post-war London, Sieber’s memoir/history of her own family provides the deepest, most powerful picture into what it was really like in those dark, deadly years.

More details about this can be found here: https://www.viviensieber.eu/

NB. Please note that this Podcast was recorded in two parts over successive weekends. Originally this was slated to be released separately but after some thought it was decided to release it all together as one Podcast to give it the context it deserved and is released as such as Part 1 and Part 2

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/vivien-sieber-spoken-label-december-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dr-vivien-sieber-spoken-label-december-2023/id1501847969?i=1000637735962

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Dr-Vivien-Sieber-Spoken-Label--December-2023-e2cmmoo

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZDA3ZDlhZmYtZDU5OS00NDM3LWFkNWQtMjcxMjM2YjY3NjMz?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwi48aWGtYiDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/96351ff0-c42d-4ee8-97db-7efc271cbcca/spoken-label-dr-vivien-sieber-spoken-label-december-2023

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0rir5Frg936iII2-F3Bd28IM1tKixCUHqEnqA0/ (Part 1)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0ri47BM_SxQlUDSaNlkxvXL9tXmU6aGbb6tJs0/ (Part 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG7skQDx_E (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKqmzwctYYQ (Part 2)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Dr-Vivien-Sieber-Spoken-Label-December-2023-Podcast/B0CPNWTKNS?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=ADAVBPD2R1YTT0GATNAW&pageLoadId=tXJr2eLz7BSdL2o3&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/539oLJQiTjNQm0wTcbnm9V

Speak Easy thank you's for our December Show (Dulicmer, Chorlton)

 

Many thanks to everybody who attended Speak Easy (our spoken word open mic night) at Dulicmer, Chorlton Cum Hardy last night our last show of the year. It was simply a fabulous night and I’ve had a number of really pleasing comments / messages over the past twelve hours. We had 21 readers and certainly over 60 people in total, maybe as much as 65 or 70 people.

Speak thanks to all of the following readers:

1)    Andy Cash

2)    Liam Barker

3)    Luke P

4)    Lynn Walton

5)    Steph Cater

6)     L.T. Hardy

7)    Neil Bell

8)    Amanda Nicholson

9)    David Bond

10) Drew Garty

 

11) Roy Page

12) Quigley DC

13) Becky May

14) Andy N

15) Namoi Boyes

16) Hannah Ledlie

17) Martin Elder

18) Kai Luckham

19) Alan Griffith

20) Steve Smythe

21) Grant Curnow

 

Our next show will be Thursday, January 04 2024 at Duclimer, Chorlton Cum Hardy as always. Bookings will start this Sunday (10^th December) from 12 Noon by email – aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk for said show. To make sure I don’t mind the booking request – please ensure the email is marked ‘Speak Easy’.

 

Amanda has uploaded the pictures from last night here -

 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=speakeasymanchester&set=a.855790363006416

 

(A selection of pictures will follow here - https://www.instagram.com/speakeasypoetryspokenword/)

 

I am currently uploading the audio from last night at

 

https://andyn.bandcamp.com/

Happy Christmas folks and thanks for the support everybody in 2023. Andy, Amanda and Steve

P.S. – Steve is always looking for people who fancies guest hosting the night . Email him on stevesmythe50@gmail.com

#poetryopenmic #spokenwordopenmic #openmic #spokenwordchorltoncumhardy #spokenwordmanchester #poetrymanchester #poetrychorltoncumhardy

 

New Spoken Label - Ellen Butler

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat) features a special chat with Ellen Butler in discussing the art of writing and the aspects of getting from the idea phase to the goal line of publication on books.

Ellen Butler is the international bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series. Her experiences working on Capitol Hill and at a medical association in Washington, D.C. inspired the mystery-action series. Book critics call the Karina Cardinal mysteries, “intelligent escapism.” Butler also writes historical spy fiction. Her WWII spy novel, The Brass Compass, recently won a 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award for historical fiction. Butler's latest release is the second book in the duology, Operation Blackbird: A Cold War Spy Novel. The novel is inspired by true events and recently won a 2023 Next Generation Indie Award for historical fiction. Reviewers call it “riveting " and “a thrilling adventure.

More about Ellen can be found at: www.ellenbutler.net

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/ellen-butler-spoken-label-november-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ellen-butler-spoken-label-december-2023/id1501847969?i=1000637107123

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Ellen-Butler-Spoken-Label--December-2023-e2cl57r

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/M2MxYjIzYWQtZjJjMS00ZDAxLTgwYWMtM2NhYWNhZWY4ZDE2?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiwwIiE7_OCAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjXkFR-4H3g&t=5s

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/3f59d58a-4d15-4732-aa0e-cdfccf522f5f/spoken-label-ellen-butler-spoken-label-december-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0ZMxIHs9iwf7fmc9lvu3SSIqebsA1W8VuZ4Z00/

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Ellen-Butler-Spoken-Label-December-2023-Podcast/B0CP8PPN7H?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=SJH6RCC1JDC8Q24E0R29&pageLoadId=p88v27tXP12BOmAM&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0e609qUCwoq15vY4CPP8Hx

Speak Easy Readers - December 2023

 

This Thursday coming (Thursday 7th December 2023) is the Christmas edition of Speak Easy, our spoken word open mic night at Dulicmer, Chorlton Cum Hardy. Nights start at 7.30pm and spread over 4-minute slots, we have the following readers who will be reading (This is not the running order). 

Subs List / Cancellation List - aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

Andy Npoet

Amanda Nicholson

Steve Smythe

Grant Curnow

Roy Page

Naomi Bowes 

Nate Hardy (L T Hardy) 

Andy Cash

Martin Elder

Peter Humphreys (Humphrey Peters)

David Bond

Luke P 

Jardel 

Quigley CB

Gordon Zola

Eve Nortley

Amy Langley

Becky May 

Neil Bell 

Miss Understood  

Lynn Walton

Alan Griffith 

Hannah Ledlie

Molly Davidson 

Liam Baker 

Steph Carter 

New Spoken Label Session - Julia Webb

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) making her debut is the wonderful Julia Webb.

Julia's bio advises that she grew up in "Thetford, a small town in rural Norfolk. Her first poetry collection Bird Sisters was published by Nine Arches Press in 2016. Her second collection Threat was published by Nine Arches in May 2019. Her third collection The Telling was published by Nine Arches in May 2022.

Julia lives in Norwich where she is a poetry editor for Lighthouse, teaches online and real world poetry courses, mentors writers, runs Norwich Stanza and works for Cafe Writers. In 2012 she was awarded a TLC free read, which you can read about here. In 2011 she won the Poetry Society’s Stanza competition and in 2018 she won the Battered Moons poetry competition. Her poem “Sisters” was highly commended in the 2016 Forward Prize. In 2016 she spent a month as writer in residence on Norwich Market."

Julis's books can be purchased from Nine Arches Press at https://ninearchespress.com/

Her website is https://juliawebb.org/

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/julia-webb-spoken-label-november-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/julia-webb-spoken-label-november-2023/id1501847969?i=1000636400255

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Julia-Webb-Spoken-Label--November-2023-e2cbfnt

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/NDI4NWIwZGUtZGFhNy00ODgwLTkxZWUtNDNlZTAxMWI2OTBj?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiw7bK_keCCAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3HvMTie_0A&t=2s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ6ErHtPKeg (Reading / Chat Part 2)

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/5bf12d5a-23f8-4f8f-a36b-8914f3e90cfe/spoken-label-julia-webb-spoken-label-november-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0BXNiGRiskmNOxmb5XTJcjI857ZHSK7AH0t2U0/ (Chat Part 1)

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0BYFh1Lta4e_Lzw8brz70BYKp3rBv6JzC4hsE0/ (Chat Part 2 / Reading)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Julia-Webb-Spoken-Label-November-2023-Podcast/B0CNX2QN8H?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=PHZW4BM4G3A83HYY0PS4&pageLoadId=vG75IHiYTia8aeFf&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6VYsTlmhLHkK1v8enZu7UE

New Spoken Label Podcast - Aakriti Kuntal

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) making her debut her debut is Aakriti Kuntal.

Aakriti Kuntal is a poet and writer. Her work has been featured in Selcouth Station, The Hindu, Madras Courier, Tuck Magazine, Pangolin Review, and Visual Verse among others. She was also awarded the Reuel International Prize 2017 for poetry and was a finalist for the RL Poetry Award 2018.

She is a multidisciplinary artist, she dapples in visual, movement and other forms of experimental art that span the molecular interstices of existence.

She can be contacted at:

www.facebook.com/aakriti.kuntal

twitter.com/AakritiKuntal

www.instagram.com/aakriti_kuntal/

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/aakriti-kuntal-spoken-label-november-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/aakriti-kuntal-spoken-label-november-2023/id1501847969?i=1000634953447

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Aakriti-Kuntal-Spoken-Label--November-2023-e2bng8c

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZWIxYTM1MTctOWUyNy00YzNhLWI1MWMtMDNlZTc5N2ViMmU5?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwig6feWwc6CAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

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

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/7c8193d6-9984-457f-aa56-fa38ecba6f5f/spoken-label-aakriti-kuntal-spoken-label-november-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/Czy2QHdND77uU5aak7a8gBtSZ9xaGYlteO0Phw0/

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Aakriti-Kuntal-Spoken-Label-November-2023-Podcast/B0CNFHVNSW?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=QM16KR4A4C9240XTA80V&pageLoadId=TurB8IedV2bMQlOS&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3etxAsBbg55BTcvuOMmkoH

and all of the usual places

New Spoken Label Session - Judy Foreman

 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) Podcast features the wonderful Judy Foreman.

Judy is the author of “A Nation in Pain” (2014), “The Global Pain Crisis” (2017), and “Exercise is Medicine” (2020), all published by Oxford University Press, and “CRISPR’d” from Skyhorse Publishing (2022). She was a staff writer at the Boston Globe for 23 years and a health columnist for many of those years. Her column was syndicated in national and international outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Baltimore Sun and others.

In this Podcast we talk primarily about her new memoir 'Let the More Loving One Be Me' which is described as "n this compelling tale, Judy Foreman reveals the terror she felt every night as a girl as she lay in bed frozen in dread, listening for her father’s footsteps coming down the hall.

She recalls his mostly naked body, his stale smell, his silhouette in the bedroom doorway. Worse, in some ways, was her mother’s denial—her insistence that this man was wonderful, her refusal to acknowledge his drinking or his rage. It wasn’t until Foreman spent a high school summer as an exchange student with a Danish family that she began to see how unsafe her own family was; it wasn’t until she went to an all-women’s college that she realized that women had value. Ultimately, this book shows that with time and therapy, it is possible to heal from serious childhood trauma and lead a life of deep fulfilment, rewarding work and, most wonderfully, love. It is a book about the power of emotional courage to change one’s own inner and outer experience of the world, and about what matters most in life: cultivating healthy connections to other people."

More about Judy can be found out on her website - https://judyforeman.com/

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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/judy-foreman-spoken-label-october-2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzilFUQrMpSV3J1QdvnUUnxfHq6n8Zp01rG3f00/

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/judy-foreman-spoken-label-november-2023/id1501847969?i=1000634297378

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZmJiNGY3MWUtMDBmYS00ZDkxLTk2MmEtOTZiYTg4OWYxY2Qy?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj44-fai76CAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/70be7deb-e86d-4253-a19a-383c7d430251/spoken-label-judy-foreman-spoken-label-november-2023

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Judy-Foreman-Spoken-Label-November-2023-Podcast/B0CN1W7BGJ?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=FZXZA1EZ3X02S8S5ZGH6&pageLoadId=gIpDFVaTEW0OQ7nT&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7JKDMw12i0GRkokp768B0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTIqddVhJ8c

The Birth of Birth (Part 1)

 

(Also published on my substack page here)

"Birth" my debut novel has taken twice as long as my longest poetry book to write 'From the Diabetic Ward' to complete.

'Birth' like ‘From the Diabetic Ward,’ is a book which went through all kinds of drafts over a lengthy period to write and finally complete and started as a short story before taking a life of its own.

The book itself of course is not an autobiography for example when I was 17 or 18 I didn’t have the confidence to front a 5-piece band and I didn’t meet my first girlfriend until I was 21 but instead is total fiction.

Well, fiction in the sense of the story is fictional but the area Chorlton Cum Hardy where it is set is, of course, a real-life area in South Manchester, where I grew up during my childhood and teenage years is true and the memories of the area are set around the same time in the early 1990s is true which I hope takes it away from being just another book of a young person becoming a writer and how their writing increases in volume and quantity where something pushes it like an emotional trigger.

Despite the fact I have been writing since I was 10 or so in one way or the other and had a brief burst at university I didn’t really start writing regularly until 2007 and 2008 when I started reading my work out to people regularly and when that happened my poetry exploded over-night.

I can remember for example going to a writing workshop in 2010 one afternoon when on a half day from the day job and I wrote 8 poems in 2 hours, most of which were certainly worthy of reading and some also submitting (2 of which got published), which two years before would have took months to write now got wrote in a few hours.

In hindsight, most of these poems were ill-thought-out and were what they were, but the point behind entering the local poetry world unlocked a trigger in my head which hasn’t gone away since

And that is the point behind Birth.

The book can be found at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Birth-Andy-N/dp/B0CM62VJVQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1S1P4F5PO6OB9&keywords=andy+n+birth&qid=1699223157&sprefix=andy+n+birth%2Caps%2C589&sr=8-1

New Spoken Label Session - Trystan Lewis

New from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) Podcast features from Morecombe, the excellent Trystan Lewis.

More details on Trystan can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/trystan.lewis

OR

https://www.facebook.com/trystansongs **

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/trystan-lewis-spoken-label-november-2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7IRPhX6u9w (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjiLCXx7QU (Reading)

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/trystan-lewis-spoken-label-november-2023/id1501847969?i=1000633667455

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Trystan-Lewis-Spoken-Label--November-2023-e2bfkfj

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/OTUxM2Q2ZGEtYjZhMC00NzEwLTgxNDMtZTI1MjJlZjk0ZDRk?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiQjOX-gqqCAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/afa4153b-2fd3-43a9-89ab-f6290f7d90f1/spoken-label-trystan-lewis-spoken-label-november-2023

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CMM99S5L?ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=9VZXENKG4TZHCASPH53Q&pageLoadId=M5lhXxjYuk7C6S2l&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XCWjCEsqNMZ7vdkJeMfb7

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzN8cgRNDX1rCPTrgKMaWJ8w1kxt_fCDNauruU0/ (Chat)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzN8WlEsCNy5eBwl8PrHwDRbjjmqn_T_D3aokY0/ (Reading)

Speak Easy thank you's for our November Show

 

More tomorrow evening but just a short note from me, Amanda and Steve regarding Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word Open Mic night) at Dulicmer, Chorlton. A great night again with a excellent turn out of way over 45 people and a special thank you to the following readers:

1) Joe Tetley

2) Keith 

3) Natasha Tingle

4) Neil Bell

5) Luke P

6) Andy Npoet

7) Amanda Nicholson

8) Roy Page

9) Siobhon Hoy

10) Freddie Green

11)  Martin Elder

12) Faye Kavanagh

13) David Bond

14) Italo Ferrente

15) Hannah Ledlie

16) Steve Smythe

17) Linda Downs

18) Janal

19) Matt Dennelly

Amanda has pictures of everybody who read and these shall be uploaded on the Speak Easy page on both facebook with edited highlights on the Instagram page.

I’ve also got a complete audio recording of the night which can easily be trimmed if anybody wants anything removing.

Bookings start for the December show on Thursday 7th December 2023. Bookings start for the show opens on Sunday 5 December from Midday. Seasonal treats will be there on a first come, first served basis.

Andy, Amanda, Steve   

#spokenwordopenmic #spokenwordmanchester #chorltoncumhardy #chorltonpoetry #chorltoncumhardyopenmic #poetryopenmic #flashfictionopenmic #fictionopenmic

Halloween releases

 

1) A new epic 13-minute track by Ocean in a Bottle called 'Legacy' has appeared on the lastest comp on Shadow Tears called 'Ghost Story: A Musical Collection of Stories from Beyond the Grave'

https://shadowtears.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-story-a-musical-collection-of-stories-from-beyond-the-grave

Pay what you want / stream 

2) An old favourite poem of mine 'The Ghost of Liverpool Empire'

has appeared on the Podcast 'One Final Kiss'

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/3bca0aa6-6a26-45d8-ac44-667291f1b22b/episodes/ae8f7818-0d12-4012-b8da-2658479820d2/the-bounty-bunch-podcast-one-final-kiss?ref=dm_sh_tS2F5HpNsdsRrcL8M6I2toBBu&fbclid=IwAR3PPp3l4KeXVi3Xs9DyWCW2CjCiDb0hzKjPAJ-sIPvgHwJQavYA-JJEA1k

3) Part 1 and 2 of a epic Ghost / Horror poem called 'Ghost on the tracks'

has appeared on my substack page (The rest of the story to follow tomorrow)

https://andyn.substack.com/p/ghost-on-the-tracks-part-1-and-2