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
Thursday 25 April 2024
Saturday 20 April 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Patrick Widdess
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
Saturday 13 April 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Grant Curnow
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
Monday 8 April 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Kate Jenkinson
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)
Friday 5 April 2024
Speak Easy - April 2024 Readers - thank you's / how to book for May 2024
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.
Wednesday 3 April 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Hannah Ledlie
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
Friday 29 March 2024
New Spoken Label Session - Adrian Slatcher
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
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Speak Easy - April 2024 Readers
Enclosed is the list of readers for Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word Open Mic night) next week on Thursday 04 April 2024 at Duclicmer, Chorlton.
The evening shall begin around 7.30 pm and the following readers shall entertain you with 4-minute slots.
To go on the cancellation list – please email Andy N at aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk.
Free admission.
Readers are:
Andy N
Steve Smythe
Roy Page
Gordon Zola
David Bond
Andy Cash
Alan Griffith
Kevin Bamford
Tony Rogers
Martin CM
Sam Tovey
David Hardy
Martin Elder
Josh Lonsdale
L.T. Hardy
Amanda Nicholson
Anne Delargy
Lindy Newns
Heather Skowood
Majella Whittaker
Kate Hook
Caitland Shaw
Polly Riggs
Saturday 23 March 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Danny McLoughlin
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Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) making his debut from Glossop, the amazing Danny McLoughlin.
Danny advises he orginates from the Liverpool and appeared at a number of poet events including the Frog & Bucket, Hove, and Chorlton etc over 20 years ago but then for many reasons didn't perform since, and is so making his tentative way back. A mix of the contemporary and the ageless.
More about Danny can be found at:
www.instagram.com/betweenhisthoughtandthat
Email: dannyomc@gmail.com
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Can be streamed / downloaded at:
https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/danny-mcloughlin-spoken-label-march-2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klJ_a0q9EsI
(Chat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq8tm9unuCs
(Reading)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C43WPpisSATk1wqWUknIYb07al0hK_vtiF7HFk0/
(Chat)
https://www.instagram.com/p/C43dtEvMpLVeCMbDyTrnSnbE0C_XTEPONl7t0Y0/
(Reading)
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Some good news
Some good news to go to bed with, Amanda Nicholson and me have both made the shortlist for this six-word short story competition.
Don't expect to win, but lovely to receive this by email just now
https://www.dougweller.net/2024-shortlist/
Sunday 17 March 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Lynn Walton
Latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Lynn Walton.
She advises is a Manchester based poet whose work moves from serious to amusing to risque. One of my favourite styles is fusing topics that don’t normally belong together.
I perform at a variety of events and venues and occasionally on Salford City Radio, and have been published in several anthologies including one by Virago Press. Recently, I published some of my work in three booklets."
All three of her collections be purchased from
www.lynnwaltonpoet.co.uk
She is also on facebook as lynn.walton.754
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Thursday 14 March 2024
New Podcast appearance - Poetry Non-Stop
I'm on the Poetry Podcast 'Poetry Non-Stop' today, thanks to Patrick for featuring me which I of course do sneak in a reference to my novel 'Birth'
https://soundcloud.com/user-821268013/andy-n-poetry-in-all-places
Sunday 10 March 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Nayma Chamchoun
Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan, a self-taught writer and poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos around mental health within their ancestral communities.
Nayma is an active member of London's vibrant Poetry and Spoken Word community, the international Poetry community online and has performed her work at several Poetry Open Mike events including the Grenfell 5 year Anniversary and had her work featured on West Wiltshire Radio & BBC Radio London several times.
Her published poetry collection COVID: THE WORDY WILDS OF A MIND UNDER LOCKDOWN is a cultural fusion poetry collection which explores themes of identity, duality, displacement, loss, race, feminism, culture, family, love and the search for inner peace as experienced alongside the effects of mental health, menopause, the pandemic and world events.
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Friday 8 March 2024
Speak Easy - March 2024 thank you's and how to book our April 2024 show
A big thank you to everybody who attended Speak Easy (Our
Spoken Word open night at Dulicmer, Chorlton) last night. A great night with 20
readers and I somewhere around 54 or 55 people attending in total.
Special thank you to the following who read:
Chim Chirwa
Anne Delargy
Tony Rogers
Martin CM
Chris Platt
Cherry Eckel
Alan Griffith
Majella Whittaker
Sam Tovey
Amanda Nicholson
Gordon Zola
Marigold Lately
Andy N
Lindy Newns
Joe Tetley
Becky May
David Bond
Heather Skowood
Grant Curnow
We have lots of photographs to upload on the Speak Easy page on facebook to follow over the weekend and we have audio of the night to follow all being well on andyn.bandcamp.com over the weekend.
The next night in April will be Thursday 04 April 2024
and bookings for the next show will open
From Sunday 10 April 2024 by emailing Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk from midday onwards
#poetryopenmic #spokenwordopenmic #openmic #spokenwordmanchester
#spokenwordchorlton #spokenwordchorltonuponhardy #poetrymanchester #poetrychorltoncumhardy
#poetrychorlton #poetry #spokenword
Monday 4 March 2024
Speak Easy March 2024 Readers
Enclosed is the list of readers (Not in the running order) for Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word Open Mic night) on Thursday next week (Thursday 07 Mar 24) at Dulcimer Bar, Chorlton all of which will read out their words in 4-minute slots.
The night starts at 7.30pm. Free Admission to all.
To go on the cancellation list for readers email Andy N at aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk
Andy Npoet
Mohammed Saad
Danny McLoughlin Danny McLoughlin
David Bond
Gordon Zola
Joe Tetley
Chris Platt
Martin Elder
Grant Curnow
Alan Griffith
Martin CM
Josh Lonsdale
Tony Rogers
Sam Tovey
Amanda Nicholson
Jo Somerset
Majella Whittaker
Heather Skowood
Lindy Newns
Marigold Lately
Anne Delargy
Cherry Eckel
Polly Anna Rose
Becky May
Chim Chirwa
Sunday 3 March 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Amy B Garrett
The latest Spoken Label Session (Spoken
Word / Poetry Podcast) features Amy B Garratt.
Amy advises she is "I’m the
creator/co-host of a spoken word group ‘Rabbiting On’ based in The Rabbit Hole
Bookshop in Brigg North Lincolnshire. I collaborated with the bookshop to
run/compere the spoken word stage at ‘No Limits Festival’ at Normanby Hall in
September 2022/2023.
My poetry was included in ‘Of Earth And
Sky’ 2021 installation by Luke Jerram which won an award (Hearts for the Arts)
for ‘Best Arts Project’.
I have also performed at The Festival Of
Love in 2022/2023 at D31 Gallery Doncaster, Scunny Pride Festival August 2023,
and The Truth To Power Cafe at Cast Theatre with Jeremy Goldstein/London Arts
Project.
I have had poems published in Dreich
Magazine, HNDL, Written Off Publishing ‘Ey Up Again’ Anthology (formerly
BentKey), and my own indie publication through Partnership Publishing ‘Sunlight
Stripping Shadows Bare’ in 2021. A book of modern poetry, micro poems and
prose.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtnGv02Ajc (Chat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ERR_oydU8 (Chat Part 2 / Reading)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4B2DsrMWqpK710ySCzcfx-H6Xw8esQ0W_oVHQ0/
(Chat)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4DA_7xRzHhTcJnyL74QyawZnLEEvl67jPkUDQ0/
(Chat Part 2 / Reading)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/41W09n5LpvWPQQZWu3vjU5
https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/amy-b-garratt-spoken-label-march-2024
Saturday 24 February 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Richard Harries
Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend, Richard Harries.
Richard Harries (not to be confused with the Bishop of Oxford) is a well known spoken word artist with a considerable following on YouTube. He performs mainly in the North of England but concentrates on East Yorkshire, Hull and the surrounding area. One of his first poems, Pirate Izzy, was written for his Granddaughter; and thereafter he began writing and performing at Folk Clubs and Pubs.
In addition to several years at the Hull Freedom Festival he
has been a popular feature at the Filey Folk Festival, Cottingham Springboard,
and in venues in Leeds, Harrogate, York and Wakefield. Richard's historical
poems have been published in American Journals and his war poems were read in
Ypres 100 years after the first shot in the Battle of Bellewaarde in World War
I. He was also a significant contributor to the Saboteur project Haunt.
Richard is often known as the Bard of Withernsea or the Activist Poet of Hull having written for the Action for Hull Group, The Wilberforce Society and supported campaigns to save the Lord line building and Beverlygate.
Richard’s books can be purchased through Stairwell Books -https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/authors/richard-harries
Richard can be contacted on fb - https://www.facebook.com/richard.harries.94
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Can be heard / seen at:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3vZoTlrhhAW3c6rGpTryAyGo08rpBAYPAXVY80/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/21YyGC0mKwnI8CBfHqcUdy
etc
Thursday 22 February 2024
Speak Easy March 2024 guest host - Jo Somerset
We have a guest Host for the next Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word Open Mic night) at Dulicmer, Chorlton Cum Hardy on Thursday 07 March 2024, Jo Somerset.
A little bit about Jo… Jo Somerset can be found every Tuesday morning at Chorlton Writers’ Café which meets in Benito Lounge Benito Lounge - Café Bar - Chorlton - Lounges - Food & Drink. She is a Manchester-based writer and historian, and trustee of Manchester Literature Festival. Her first novel Mission: Find Mum will be published in September this year. In 2020 she won the Leanne Bridgewater Award for Innovation and Experiment at Salford University, where she completed a MA in Creative Writing. She can be contacted at josomersetwriter.wordpress.com
To go on the cancellation list for reading – email Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk
Night starts around 7.30pm. Free admission for readers and audience.
Sunday 18 February 2024
New Spoken Label Podcast - Steve Pottinger
Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Label Podcast) and making his debut
is the amazing Steve Pottinger. Steve is a poet, author, and workshop
facilitator, and a founding member of Wolverhampton arts collective ‘Poets,
Prattlers, and Pandemonialists’.
His work has featured in poetry magazines and anthologies and he is a
regular contributor to online poetry platforms. He has performed at Ledbury and
StAnza poetry festivals and the Edinburgh Free Fringe, and in venues across the
country, from Penzance to Orkney.In this Podcast. we are talking about Steve's
new poetry book "Snapshots from the fall of home'.
More about Steve can be found at: https://stevepottinger.co.uk/
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https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/steve-pottinger-spoken-label-feb-24
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3dZp9Ztp73vu-FO-99uIL87OTSlj2pfVR1qdk0/
(Chat)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3dZv58ru7DLrC9qKm4CNUFVWxWTzS5_16WNc40/
(Reading)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1uCgK8VeCcPuaZGNmC5qZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHy8V8DXlt0&t=1s
(Chat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coM-w_jg06U&t=1s
(Reading)
https://spokenlabel.bandcamp.com/album/steve-pottinger-spoken-label-feb-24
#poetry #podcast #spokenword #spokenwordpodcast #poetrypodcast
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