New Spoken Label Session - Alise Versella

 

The latest Spoken Label (Author / Artist /Poetry Podcast) session features the return of our dear friend, the wonderful Alise Versella.

Alise Versella is a Pushcart-nominated, contributing writer for Rebelle Society whose work has been published in Circle Show, COG Magazine, Crack the Spine, Entropy, The Opiate, Penumbra Literary and Art Journal, Poydras Review, Ultraviolet Tribe, What Rough Beast, Steam Ticket, and Elephant Journal, among others As stated elsewhere by Kate Fuller "With dazzling formal range, these poems observe the social ills of the day, using images so beautifully real and painful that the line between the literal and figurative blurs in the way only art attuned to the universally truthful can. The rage and wildness observed and experienced in them, whether through the media or in a visit to the doctor’s office in a female body, serve as a balm to the injustices that only mortality might rectify: “perhaps the dead will breathe again,” writes Versella. Yet even in our “common stress dream” or the dream of “America,” the poet isn’t blind to the enduring spirit of not just the dead, but also the living: “the humpback whale returns to the Hudson, hope on his lips.” Hope–these poems, what these poems say–can be made from the wreckage."

More about Alise can be found on her website at: https://aliseversella.com/

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This can be streamed / downloaded from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/alise-versella-spoken-label-june-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/alise-versella-spoken-label-june-2023/id1501847969?i=1000617676949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ljWJon4Jjg (Reading)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt-GKq3M0S4 (Interview)

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Yvonne-Reddick-Spoken-Label--June-2023-e23nf73

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZDIxNWZjMjYtZTJhOC00YWEzLWJmNmUtY2ZhNmRiMWIyNWMz?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjQ9rbUsN7_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://radiopublic.com/spoken-label-6BalgM/s1!c08da

https://castbox.fm/episode/Alise-Versella-(Spoken-Label%2C-June-2023)-id2678341-id605579365

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/spoken-label-1044059/episodes/alise-versella-spoken-label-ju-176558977

https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1501847969/episode148773484-Alise-Versella-Spoken-Label-Spoken-Label

https://www.podash.com/podcast/882087/?fbclid=IwAR295BuK48Ie5TCttJahz_42RhTD-5YcvDqE0aOZMK7-_6hi0X2VeON2-h4

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Alise-Versella-Spoken-Label--June-2023-e24p2hp

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/spoken-label/alise-versella-spoken-label-YwgL3a0K4en/

https://podcastaddict.com/?id=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2Fd905e90%2Fpodcast%2Fplay%2F71124985%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%252Fstaging%252F2023-4-27%252Fce5e6ca5-b665-adab-06f9-908d9fd5b679.mp3&podcastId=2748767

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-h47tz-190d2fb3

https://podbay.fm/p/spoken-label/e/1687248796

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/b5388a75-1f37-46b4-8b4a-f5f8697c649a/spoken-label-alise-versella-spoken-label-june-2023

https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Spoken-Label-p1317427/?topicId=295311648

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Alise-Versella-Spoken-Label-June-2023-Podcast/B0C2TZSJRN?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=NP4P87AGRTKKG3BP36B4&pageLoadId=lJI8sm7ehnufu82n&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct6bjM6M-yZXGU6zXrzpeAGLR7xgAT2XTHpUTM0/ (Interview)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct6bo9aMilG5Oe9XsJ_Kn1JdzQVs30-uo2C_PM0/ (Reading Segment)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2S3WWUnpOfFEyxtgAUxDL3

Speak Easy Readers July 2023

 

Enclosed is the list of readers for Speak Easy @ Dulicmer, Chorlton Cum Hardy on Thursday 06 July 2023.

To go on the subs list /queries (in case I have accidentally missed you off etc)

Email: Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

Readers are: 

Andy N

Steve Smythe

Phillip Carter (Guest Host)

David Bond

Tom Butterworth

Gordon Zola

Sean McGlynn

Andy Cash 

Drew Garty

John Clifford 

Martin Elder 

Michael Burton

James Jackson 

Grant Curnew 

Danny McLoughlin 

Trystan Lewis

Andrew Shanahan 

Amanda Nicholson

Amy Langley

April Manderson

Eve Nortley

Hoyan Li

Siobhan Hoy 

Roxy Walsh 

Ashley Edge 

New Spoken Label Session - Roz Ottery

 

The latest Spoken Label Session (Spoken Word / Poetry / Artist) Podcast features the wonderful Roz Ottery, originally from both Portsmouth and London but now based in Yorkshire.

This Podcast covers as well as Roz’s wonderful work her career of over 40 years in the entertainment industry as a Juggler, Stilt Walker, Clown, introduced Singing Telegrams to the UK (including singing them for Tom O’Connor, Morecambe and Wise and Bob Geldof), joint work with John Lambert, director of Q20 on "The Circus of Mazelek" and then their own duo for over 20 years “Manji and Mo” into her poetry work where she has recently had work published in The Printed Words Anthology (Edited by Amanda Nicholson) ‘Nobody Left Behind’.

More about Roz’s career can be read here:

⁠https://sorchara.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/50-over-50-interviewees-roz-ottery-stilt-walker-and-clown/⁠

She is on facebook as: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/roz.ottery⁠

Nobody Left Behind the book Roz is featured on is here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nobody-Behind-Printed-Words-Anthology/dp/B0BNKYKRCY/ref=sr_1_2?crid=20C2QZ7YCEW7X&keywords=amanda+nicholson&qid=1687073154&sprefix=amanda+nicholson%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-2

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This can be streamed / downloaded from: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/roz-ottery-spoken-label-june-2023/id1501847969?i=1000617379714

https://podcasters.spotify.com/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Roz-Ottery-Spoken-Label--June-2023-e25m1ok

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZmI0NDk2ZmItZDgwOC00YTliLWIwNmMtNDkwZDQ2NWZkZWQ1?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiQut2529z_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVl32aaB008&t=1070s (Interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDAi142auRI&t=10s (Reading)

https://radiopublic.com/spoken-label-6BalgM/s1!3c289

https://castbox.fm/episode/Roz-Ottery-(Spoken-Label%2C-June-2023)-id2678341-id604832339

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/spoken-label-1044059/episodes/roz-ottery-spoken-label-june-2-176259700

https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1501847969/episode148224856-Ottery-Spoken-Label-Spoken-Label

https://www.podash.com/podcast/882087/?fbclid=IwAR1-FS-eTE2g7e_bJTHIhV_dBaguvRMz5LzaZVIkYtk6kVdQyHY1ZIL16j4

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Roz-Ottery-Spoken-Label--June-2023-e25m1ok

https://www.bullhorn.fm/spokenlabel/posts/roz-otterly-spoken-label-june

https://podcastaddict.com/?id=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2Fd905e90%2Fpodcast%2Fplay%2F72074452%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%252Fstaging%252F2023-5-13%252Fcbf47691-9133-8543-6095-d515e5cc90f4.mp3&podcastId=2748767

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-fs3gc-18fea3fd

https://podbay.fm/p/spoken-label/e/1687042800

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/0c017e64-1db9-4d97-9763-2debc2e20df7/spoken-label-roz-ottery-spoken-label-june-2023

https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Spoken-Label-p1317427/?topicId=294563457

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Roz-Ottery-Spoken-Label-June-2023-Podcast/B0C8DSBBTF?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_1&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=9ZMGZWATZVSKJ1ZQVABE&pageLoadId=PYzKK10V1iusDoW7&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct49x2sArOIgygXbAoPGDfu-tocdHXL4ooIvwI0/

(Reading Segment)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct49gl0tUI4AViojub_QRkh7D4KVNh7Bja0DNw0/

(Interview Segment)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6PvjNE2N3PwDHqE1Yo1ujs

Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street

 

Changing carriages at Birmingham New Street unless plans change over the next few months will be my final full-length book of poetry which will be out over autumn or winter 2023.

Began in 2017 during the creation of my third book “The Birth of Autumn” which then life on its own afterwards, its contents will tell you the story through a series of memories told by an unnamed narrator of firstly of a friendship he had growing up with a girl called Sarah who came back into his life after over a twenty-year gap with the pair of them in deeply unhappy marriages changing everything forever.

Inspired by the clarify in Hugo Williams's book dock leaves and the expressive nature of Paul Auster’s poetry, this book will take the reader on a series of journeys up and down the northwest of England and beyond using their adventures in towns and cities to show how everything changes often without realising.

The piece I am going to share is a piece earlier in the book, the title piece itself which will show the movement and the adventures that the couple in question shared in this book.

The full article and sample poem can be found here

New Spoken Label Session - Yvonne Reddick

 

Today's Spoken Label Podcast (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features our returning friend, Yvonne Reddick. 

Yvonne Reddick is an award-winning writer, editor, ecopoetry scholar and climber. She has received a Leadership Fellowship from the AHRC, the Poetry Society’s inaugural Peggy Poole Award, a Northern Writer’s Award and a Creative Futures Literary Award. 

Her work has appeared in The Guardian Review, Poetry Review and New Statesman, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC North West Tonight. 

She has published four pamphlets, including Translating Mountains (Seren, 2017), winner of the Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Competition, and Spikenard (Laureate’s Choice, 2019), which was a poetry recommendation in the London Review of Books.

Our chat today covers mostly her first book-length collection, Burning Season, published by Blood Axe.

Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature’s defiance. Yvonne Reddick’s understanding of climate change is uniquely personal: her father was a petroleum engineer, and many members of her family worked in the fossil fuel industry. The collection speaks of the paradox that her Dad’s gift to her was her love of nature and mountain landscapes.

Burning Season includes a series of vivid, moving and heartfelt poems that explore her grief following her father’s death in a hiking accident. These are set against a wider backdrop of ecological loss and heartbreak.

Yvonne's website is: http://yvonnereddick.org/

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This can be downloaded /streamed from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/yvonne-reddick-spoken-label-june-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/yvonne-reddick-spoken-label-june-2023/id1501847969?i=1000617066609

https://podcasters.spotify.com/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Yvonne-Reddick-Spoken-Label--June-2023-e23nf73

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/ZDAyN2NmZTItNjRkZS00ZTRiLThiN2YtZGE1MjY0ZTQ3Mjc4?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwioiZr33cj_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIgdj2NsHGM&t=1s (Interview)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fClUucmkRD8&t=1s (Reading)

https://radiopublic.com/spoken-label-6BalgM/s1!d4a8b

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/spoken-label-1044059/episodes/yvonne-reddick-spoken-label-ju-175978756

https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1501847969/episode147868471-Yvonne-Reddick-Spoken-Label-Spoken-Label

https://www.podash.com/podcast/882087/?fbclid=IwAR0rrYSnxAbDoay17woF4LHOMqvWNLCdiDX56xyjPGGbkJCfVMhyOnIBRkg

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Yvonne-Reddick-Spoken-Label--June-2023-e23nf73

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/spoken-label/yvonne-reddick-spoken-label-nZ_tG90INv8/

https://www.bullhorn.fm/spokenlabel/posts/yvonne-reddick-spoken-label-j

https://podcastaddict.com/?id=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2Fd905e90%2Fpodcast%2Fplay%2F70023843%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%252Fstaging%252F2023-5-13%252F98ee4466-f88f-9db6-509f-1df13c1bbbed.mp3&podcastId=2748767

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-dt6hm-18f0d745

https://podbay.fm/p/spoken-label/e/1686779133

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/edb051af-7a91-4467-8ce8-387680603015/spoken-label-yvonne-reddick-spoken-label-june-2023

https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Spoken-Label-p1317427/?topicId=293760302

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtkBt9UO7UGtEl8jql-BiupTZdLPAVpehzJlrc0/ (Chat)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtkIexeNnKOr_aElgAiESkc-4zxe3-ZkDI8TRY0/ (Reading)

https://www.owltail.com/podcast/5FvX6-Spoken-Label?fbclid=IwAR03C8LYm2SEXsWGEKjnvAcsdnEWeEP7IsC8rwZiX-YGZGgvt-AuZSKcVjY

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Yvonne-Reddick-Spoken-Label-June-2023-Podcast/B0C83GTCZ7?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=WEMFJRYQMDK0AJ2JYBCV&pageLoadId=MaS3YSok95Vf3jre&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/56znnXjXh79k861Y2qu704

New Spoken Label Session - Aqeel Parvez.

New from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast)  features the wonderful Aqeel Parvez 

Aqeel Parvez is a poet who lives in Leeds, UK. He is the author of numerous chapbooks including "The Streetlights Are Beckoning Nirvana (Analog Submission Press)."

His work has been published among other places in 16 Pages Press, Sludge Lit, Horror Sleaze Trash, Back Patio Press, Saturday Night Bombers and is also one of the committee members of Bone Down,
the literary affinity group.

He can be found on at Instagram @ap.writer

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This can be downloaded / streamed from:

https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/aqeel-parvez-spoken-label-june-2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/aqeel-parvez-spoken-label-june-2023/id1501847969?i=1000616000211

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Aqeel-Parvez-Spoken-Label--June-2023-e234322

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9kOTA1ZTkwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz/episode/YWRmNzFkNWMtZTZlYy00ZWJkLWFjMGQtNzJmMGJjNDBhN2Zk?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjgp7S03rr_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxis8fnc-dI&t=1s (Chat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kxt8ityZmY (Reading)

https://radiopublic.com/spoken-label-6BalgM/s1!ee732

https://castbox.fm/episode/Aqeel-Parvez-(Spoken-Label%2C-June-2023)-id2678341-id602050960

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/spoken-label-1044059/episodes/aqeel-parvez-spoken-label-june-175159399

https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1501847969/episode146736680-Aqeel-Parvez-Spoken-Label-Spoken-Label

https://www.podash.com/podcast/882087/?fbclid=IwAR0Y_jW5WQRzxOWmdyBu8C60iA4c3FRGUQMsBDoU4HaButVl3TlQJRIo9_c

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spokenlabelpodcast/episodes/Aqeel-Parvez-Spoken-Label--June-2023-e234322

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/spoken-label/aqeel-parvez-spoken-label-kjlmA-G5ZI7/

https://www.bullhorn.fm/spokenlabel/posts/aqeel-parvez-spoken-label-jun

https://podcastaddict.com/?id=https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm%2Fs%2Fd905e90%2Fpodcast%2Fplay%2F69388802%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%252Fstaging%252F2023-3-27%252F1fa49bd7-6328-611e-0e59-e2c7fdf4b8e6.mp3&podcastId=2748767

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-q64ug-18d1df56

https://podbay.fm/p/spoken-label/e/1686135476

https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bae49616-2295-4e7c-b931-91415a724cb6/episodes/a3b458e0-4140-4c2a-8659-0ce0f5126cd3/spoken-label-aqeel-parvez-spoken-label-june-2023

https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Spoken-Label-p1317427/?topicId=291535492

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtU95xxrDg9aXTceZrvdZi_T418xFMZ3Jlc05g0/ (Reading)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtU9uBwOiyuOsgHBsOVmsTxzWeA9lByZgAmuQM0/ (Chat)

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Aqeel-Parvez-Spoken-Label-June-2023-Podcast/B0C7CPG3VT?ref=a_pd_Spoken_c4_lAsin_0_0&pf_rd_p=a202f891-0d90-47a2-ac3f-8ebc4b2943db&pf_rd_r=5M5NZFX811RK77MFCQXZ&pageLoadId=mdmUYWKGOcBEj0Qx&creativeId=43463e8d-6f2b-4d01-a759-854a1034c4b8

https://open.spotify.com/episode/79BtpvkBZbnpbesjLrFzXC

Postings on Substack

 

Update on what I have published on Substack:

A brief Introduction (Introduction really)

Memorial of returning to Great Universal (Memorial piece of returning to a building where I worked at for 8 and a half years unhappily) 

Job application for a job you don't really want (Comedy piece about how not to apply for a job)

Shadowplay (Horror Flash fiction about a deadly meeting)

Conversation with your body (Experimental Poetic Prose about a conversation with your body)

Conversation with your body II (More Experimental Poetic Prose talking with your body)

Day out to Blackpool (Comedy flash fiction about a drive back from Blackpool to Manchester which does not go well)

 

Episode 7 - Cloaked in the Shadows New Episode - Sunshine

 

latest Cloaked in the Shadows (Paranormal / Supernatural / Strange Podcast) features the wonderful Sunshine.

Sunshine is a Psychic Medium, Soul Healer, Spiritual Advisor, Shadow Worker, Eclectic Witch, Practiced Magician, Recovering Alcoholic and founder of Sunshine Readings. Her passion is helping others learn how to step into their shadows so they can uncover their magickal gifts needed to remove any energetic blocks to their soul’s enlightenment. She is the creatrix of the Chakra Diviner’s Playbook, an intensive shadow work program that combines the energy of the chakras with the power of divination. This transformational program includes Sunshine’s divine-inspired gift that explores the shadow side of each chakra in order to help guide spiritual warriors into the life they truly desire.

More about Sunshine can be found at: https://www.sunshinereadings.com/

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Podcast be streamed / downloaded from:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2089663/12901310-cloaked-in-the-shadows-episode-7

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtBVtjErIKqdXklVoSU2qlKamp08oPN683pXmM0/

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

Speak Easy thanks you for June 2023 and how to book for the July 2023

 

Thank you to everybody for attending our latest Speak Easy (Spoken Word Open Mic night). A bumper night today with 20 readers including 6 I think debut readers also and a bumper crowd of over 60 people in attendance. We rocked the place last night, and I’ve some great messages through from people both last night and today saying how much they loved the night.

Special thanks to the following readers:

1. Andy Cash

2. Hannah Ahle

3. Inga Piotrowska

4. James Young

5. Andrew Shanahan 

6. Andy N

7. Anna Percy

8. Martin Elder

9. Lindy Newns

10. Michael Conley

11. Quigley CB

12. Steve Smythe

13. Amanda Nicholson

14. Hoyan Li

15. Keri Mortiary

16. Drew Garty

17. Leon Johnson

18. Tom Butterworth

19. Eve Ginnsberg

20. Tony Kinsella

We do have pictures of every act from Steve and Amanda and possibly some other pictures from other people too. These shall follow on the Speak Easy facebook page https://www.facebook.com/speakeasymanchester over the weekend and a selection will also appear on our Instagram page (SpeakEasySpokenWord (@speakeasypoetryspokenword) | Instagram) also.

I’ve also gone a good audio recording of the full night and am in the process of uploading this onto https://andyn.bandcamp.com/ hopefully over the weekend too. Anybody who

wants their segment removing please let me know.

The next show will be as always on the 1^st thursday of the month which I believe will be

Thursday 06 July 2023. Bookings for the show shall start up this Sunday 04 June 2023

from midday by emailing me (Andy N) on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

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