Spoken Label

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author/Poet Podcast) is the wonderful Jo Somerset. Jo Somerset is a Manchester-based writer.  She has lived in Manchester for over 40 years, during which time she has been a student, feminist, peace activist, skilled tradeswoman, housing officer, local government officer, mother, equality consultant and company director.   Now that her children are grown...

Another Bonus Mini Episode today from Spoken Label features the wonderful Liz Gibson talking about work she will be showing shortly on 10th August 2022 at Islington Mill, Salford, UK on the theme of Worker’s rights with assistance of several actors.    A bio about Liz is (in her own words):  “Hello! I'm Liz.   I am a writer, performer and tutor based in Manchester. I write...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poet / Artist Podcast) features the wonderful Lauren Temple. LAUREN TEMPLE is an emerging poet and writer from Manchester, she is part of the poetry collective Young Identity; published in their anthology Ecosystems of Fury. Her work often explores mental health, emotional inheritance, domestic abuse, neurodiversity, and dementia. When she isn’t writing p...

Top of the Label is a new semi regular poetry / spoken word Podcast series within the umbrella off Spoken Label hosted by Andy N and Amanda Nicholson featuring a mixture of new and returning friends all returning a piece each (on occasion two). Part 2 features the following guests: Polly Anna Rose, Andy N, Sarah James (Sarah Leavsley), Elisabeth Horan, Katy Konrad, Jessica Kim, Amanda Nicholson, C...

Top of the Label is a new semi regular poetry / spoken word Podcast series within the umbrella off Spoken Label hosted by Andy N and Amanda Nicholson featuring a mixture of new and returning friends all returning to read out a piece (sometimes two) each.  Part 1 features the following guests: Skylar J Wynter (reading two pieces), Nick Lurvell, Kealan Coady, Lauren Temple (reading two pieces),...

Latest Spoken Label (Author / Writer Podcast) session features from Platt Bridge, Gareth Ellis.  Gareth is from Platt Bridge, Wigan and his bio says "Gareth started writing a few years ago. Initially, it was a means to get a story that was in his head down on paper, but quickly found that he enjoyed the process of writing and creating a world. It also helped him cope with some of the ups and...

Latesty from Spoken Label (Author/Artist/Poet Podcast series) features the return of our wonderful friend, Leila Ziari talking about her second poetry book "Seaside Serenades: The Ocean in Haiku" The book is described as "Seaside Serenades: The Ocean in Haiku" is the poetic chronicle of an intense love affair with the ocean, the secret lover and source of inspiration for many artists.  Leila...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Poet Podcast) features the wonderful Rebecca Phythian. Rebecca is a actor, singer, poet and co-founder of Blue Balloon Theatre among other things. She also has a collection of poetry due out from Bent Key Publishing 'Perfect Mess' at the start of 2023. More about Rebecca can be found at the following links among other things: linktr.ee/RebeccaPhythian...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Our Poet/Artist/Writer Podcast) features our returning friend, Sarah James also known as Sarah Leavesley to talk about her latest poetry collection from Verve Poetry Press "Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic" The book is described as "Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic is award-winning poet Sarah James’s exploration of 40 years living with type one diabetes, a life-threatening autoimmune co...

Returning to Spoken Label after a long break are two dear friends (off) ours the wonderful Chelsea Tadeyeske and Edie Roberts who we met in Manchester years back (speaking to us from the Gamli Skoli Residency on Hrisey Island) in Iceland Chelsea Tadeyeske is a poet, performer, and bookmaker from and currently based in Milwaukee, WI. She is the founding editor of pitymilk press where she publishes...

Latest up from Spoken Label features a special Podcast with Kimberley Goldie aka The Lancashire Wellness Witch. In this very special Podcast we talk to Kimberley about her work in the NHS and how it has now led to her work as the Lancashire Wellness Witch where in her own words about the services she offers "to help people be happier, healthier and take charge of their own wellbeing. And I aim to...

Latest Spoken Label session (Spoken Word / Poetry / Author) session features the wonderful Nick Toczek.  Born in Yorkshire in 1950, Nick has been writing since he was a child, began getting his poetry published in his mid-teens, did his first public readings when he was nineteen, and had his first collection of poetry published when he was twenty-one.  Since then, he’s done more than fif...

Latest up from Spoken Label features newcomer to the spoken word scene, previously from Stafford but now based Manchester, flash fiction writer Scott Hall. More about Scott Hill can be found at:  https://www.instagram.com/hozart_heron/

Latest Episode from Spoken Label (Author/Poet/Storyteller Podcast) features the storyteller Mark Jackson. Mark's bio says "In 2010 Mark started writing. After the initial euphoria of finding an outlet for that creative fire burning within since childhood, he  soon realised that the world wasn't quite ready for his tales of Ian Brown drinking piss, cocaine induced paranoia, The Stockholm Monst...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Author / Artist) Podcast features Melissa Sussens (she/her). Melissa is a queer South African veterinarian and poet. Her work has appeared in  Capsule Stories ,  Horse Egg Literary ,  Kissing Dynamite ,  SFWP Quarterly  and  Anti-Heroin Chic , among others. She was runner up for the  New Contrast National Poetry Prize . By da...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Our Author / Poet / Artist Podcast) is a kinda bonus episode you could say before we bring her on for a full session in the Autumn is the wonderful Christina Alagaratnam. Christina describes herself as "I'm a writer, author, playwright and podcaster. I've published my work on Amazon and work on the London theatre scene. Now, I run my own podcast called The Night Writer...

Latest Spoken Label session (Spoken Word / Poetry / Author / Artist Podcast) features the wonderful Charles Haffner. Charles is from Florida. He describes himself as "I have a few passions, one being my love to express myself through Tanka and various other poetic forms. This passion started in my late teens when I read Edgar Allan Poe and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After a 30 year hiatus I decid...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Author / Artist Podcast) is a interview with the wonderful Elisabeth Horan. Elisabeth  is a poet, mother, and small press publisher living in the wilds of Vermont. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks and collections, and the Editor-In-Chief of Animal Heart Press. Elisabeth is passionate about discovering new voices and mentoring emerging p...

Latest Spoken Label session features the wonderful Leonie Rowland. Leonie Rowland is a writer living in Manchester, UK. She is currently doing her PhD with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she researches commodity animism in the Japanese Gothic. Leonie is Editor-in-Chief of The Hungry Ghost Project and Assistant Reviews Editor at The British Soc...

* Contains Pieces of a adult nature *  New from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Author / Artist Podcast) features the wonderful Rosie Rayworth, originally from Sheffield, now Manchester poet and drummer for the country / folk band Millie Milner and The Deadnames. Pieces read out in this session include: 1. Barbies  2. The Tree 3. Wandering Hands

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry) Podcast features newcomer the storyteller / short story writer Quigley CB. More about Quigley can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/quigley_cb/

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry/Spoken Word Podcast) is our returning friend who we first chatted all the way just after we first got going back in 2016, Ushiku Crisafulli Ushiku is a chef, poet, playwright, actor, performance artist, comedian, musician, writer, spoken word and hip hop artist, and founder of the OpenMind Collective which curates community focused cross-genre creative collabora...

Latest episode from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Writer / Poet Podcast) heads over to South Africa to speak to our returning friend Alta H Mabin. Alta is a South African writer, poet and publisher. She has published many e-books and over 20 full paperbacks. She is also the editor and publisher of Poets Unlimited & Haiku for your soul - both international poetry magazines. She advises she writes...

Latest Spoken Label (Poetry / Author Podcast) features the wonderful Culain Wood from Salford.  Culain Wood is also the host off ' Rhyming Words' which is a new spoken word night at the Globe, Glossop. More details of which (1st event) is at: https://www.facebook.com/events/488963932948540/ Poems read out in this session include: 1. Stop watching the news 2. I was watching the news 3. There's...

Latest up from Spoken Label features the wonderful Moshe Mikanovsky. Moshe is the author The Resurrector (New Degree Press). The book is described as "Can someone be brought back from the dead? Could it change the life of the living? The Levi family is in their darkest hour. The sudden death of Nir, the middle child, launches a dark journey filled with moments of light and hope. An estranged fathe...