Spoken Label

..Latest Spoken Label features the wonderful Beau Williams.  More about Beau can be found at:  https://beauwilliamspoet.com/ https://www.facebook.com/beauwilliamspoet/ https://www.instagram.com/beauwilliamspoet/ https://beauwilliamspoet.com/videos/ Pieces read out in this session include:  1. Highland Inn 2. Kylie Mae 3. Strongest act of bravery 4. Happiness is an old harmonium

Latest Spoken Label Podcast features the wonderful Sam Rapp. Poems read out in this session include: 1. My World 2. I don't do Maths 3. Allington Lock 4. Don't Dys me 5. Friendship 6. My journey with Dyselxia Some links for Sam include: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnEGlTHZkw0 (Her Poem -Rant) whiskyandbeards.co.uk/2018/09/15/sam-rapp/ (Her page on whiskyandbeards) uk.linkedin.com/in/sam-rapp-dyslexic-...

Back in the house for Spoken Label is the wonderful Mark Rogers. Pieces read out were: 1) So 2) So 3) So 4) So Mark can be found on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002462382303 He can also be contacted through markrogers462@btinternet.com & links to his books; '.....So,50' and '....So, much better' available direct from me or thru www.lulu.com   

Back in the house for a returning session features a old friend of Spoken Label, Stafford's Poet Laureate, Mel Wardle Woodend. Poets read out in this session include: 1. What is Community? 2. Echoes 3. Ally 4. Empathy A video of Echoes created with Jonathon Watkiss can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtQ0xbNZQw&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3dn0ytg5Zj6Z1Y99PwSgyvymAVhHEaH09CnWL7fVUb67Gr...

With Amanda Steel sitting in attendance, Returning guest today for Spoken Label is the lovely Roz Weaver, originally from Liverpool but now based in Leeds. Poems read out in this session include: 1. How Trauma dresses at Daybreak 2. Home is where the spirit goes 3. Vigil 4. Communion 5. Smoke the Peace Pipe 6. The moment you haven't met yet (Live, That's what she said, August 2019) Her Instagram i...

Latest from Spoken Label features the wonderful Grae J Wall all the way from St Albans. More about Grae can be found at: The poetry underground (facebook) graejwall.bandcamp.com graejwall.bandcamp.com/album/mouseclubvirusblues Pieces read out during this session include: 1. Breathe 2. Barely talking 3. One simple day 4. We 5. The Waiting Lounge (Bonus – from mouseclubvirusblues) 6. The Bomb (Bonus...

The wonderful Don Dolby is our latest guest on Spoken Label. Pieces read out on this session include:  1. November forest frost. 2. Can you?  3. Reflections on Hammersmith 4. Nothing  5. 18 years, 10 months and 19 days.  Useful links for Don include: blog: griffonnier.blogspot.com website: www.elusiveillusion.co.uk Poems by other poets local to Buxton can be found at: buxtonspo...

Latest up for Spoken Label is the wonderful Ruairi Coneely You can find out more about Ruairi at:  https://about.me/rmconneely https://twitter.com/RMConneely Pieces read in this session were:  1) Sneeze Collector 2) (Untitled) 3) Auburn

Latest Spoken Label is from the wonderful Carol Fenwick, host of the excellent new Podcast series Carol's Pod reading out a few of her own poems: Poems read out include: 1) Customer Service Experience  2) The Day Alex turns Dictator The facebook for the Podcast series is: www.facebook.com/groups/2842007266022392/ A few links for the Podcast include: (Anchor) anchor.fm/carol5297 (Spotify) open...

Back on the road for Spoken Label is a feature with the wonderful Mark P Henderson. More about Mark can be found at: markphenderson.com Pieces read in this session include: 1. (Extract from Folk Tales of the Peak) 2. (Extract from Cruel and unusual punnishments) 3. (Extract from National Cake Day) 4. (Extract from The Engklimastat)

Latest Spoken Label and keeping the flow going as always features all the way from France, Richard Earls. More about Richard can be found at: www.facebook.com/richardearlslive/ www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbZEihDd1U3Re2JPRrAmmDdX9CTS3aT0d&fbclid=IwAR0PX5t5mVfxGWBinfpRHJRixs7uI7nTU8AH81qy8rdHsOjQJhOKy41UT68 Poems read out in this session include: 1) The Arms Factory Tour (Hellfire) 2) Too so...

Latest Spoken Label features the wonderful Caroline Burrows (Versecycle). More about Caroline can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNfagvsYi3w_p-Un63KgS_A (youtube) VerseCycle (twitter) VerseCycle (facebook) Poems read out in this session include:  1. Junkies in the underpass 2. A Wilfred Owen Oydssey (A Spring cycling offensive) 3. Neil Young is everywhere. 4. The Hawthorn 5. Th...

Latest Spoken Label Podcast features the wonderful Lucy Sullivan, author / artist of Barking. More details about Lucy can be found at: lucysullivanuk.com (A second session with Lucy should be following all been well in July / August 2020 with my Comics Podcast Comics Unity)

Latest from Spoken Label features the wonderful Yvonne Reddick Poems read out in this session include: 1. In Oil 2. Madness lake (Slight fluff – a cut will need to be made) 3. Translating Mountains from the Gaelic 4. In the burning seasons 5. Mountain Hare More on Yvonne can be found at: yvonnereddick.org www.uclan.ac.uk/staff_profiles/yvonne_reddick.php twitter.com/yvonnereddick www.serenbooks.co...

Back in the house is Spoken Label, with a dear friend Steve Smythe who Andy co-runs a open mic literature night with called Speak Easy with Andy's partner, Amanda. More information about Steve can be found at: www.facebook.com/steve.smythe.12 Pieces read out include: 1. Spotlight 2. High Tide 3. Karaoke siren 4. Misconnected 5. Leaving Do

New from Spoken Label features a long time friend of Spoken Label Jeffarama! aka Jeff Dawson. More about Jeff Dawson can be found on his write out loud page: www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/jeffarama The Bard Company albums are available for downloaded from: thecrowsofalbion.bandcamp.com/album/bard-company-all-systems-go thecrowsofalbion.bandcamp.com/album/bard-company-raising-the-standards Poems re...

Latest Spoken Label Podcast features the wonderful Anna Jordan. Poems read out include: 1) Mothers Goodbye letter to a dirty face 2) Sticky feet 3) Tokyo, New York, My Ireland 4) Amazonian nights More about Anna can be found here: Modwords https://www.facebook.com/modwordswaterford/ Modhearts Modhearts Poetry Posts https://www.facebook.com/modartsx/

Latest Spoken Label Podcast is from the excellent Luci:d . Luci:d is an award-winning writer and spoken word poet. Her feature sets have included The Poetry Society. Her poetry has appeared in The Social Distancing Festival, covered by BBC, The Stage, and LA Times. Her poem, Clap featured alongside contributions from celebrities Emilia Clarke and Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock in the #copingtoget...

Latest archive session on Spoken Label dating back to November 2019 features the wonderful Linda Quinn Linda Quinn grew up in a caravan in West Country fields and byways. Training at East 15, she worked for 15 years as an actress in theatre, tv and film, later creating and directing performances for Manumission Club in Ibiza. Completing an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in London, her filmscri...

Returning for Spoken Label is a old, dear friend of ours Stefan C Gambrell. More about Stefan be found at: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012988232484 Poems read out here include: (with thanks to Amanda Steel for attending the poetry section) 1. Free. 2. Ode to the Sofa Surfer 3. Evolution Baby

Latest Spoken Label features the wonderful Sophia Behal all the way from Czech Republic. More about about Sophia can be found at: wuhanpoetry, (bit.ly) souphistication (tumblr) audiobook/wuhan 1 (kobo) Poems read out as part of this session include: 1) NUCity - Lights 2) Weapons down 3) Taken out of #Wuhan

Latest Spoken Label session features Natalie Crick. Natalie Crick, from Newcastle in the UK, has poems published or forthcoming in Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, Orbis, The Moth, Banshee, Strix, Bare Fiction, New Welsh Review and elsewhere. She is studying for an MPhil in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Her poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize twice, shortlisted for The Antho...

Back with his 200th episode (somehow), Andy N chats to Amanda Steel about the history of Spoken Label, and answers questions about the development of this Podcast, how things have changed and offers hints about the future. The full archive is at spokenlabel.bandcamp.com

** contains topics not suitable for everybody ** Latest Poet is from the wonderful and very funny poet from Limmerick Paul McNamara: Pieces read out in this session include: 1) Dating is hard 2) Pauline O'Kelly (aka The Granny Poem) 3) Quarterlife crisis More information about Paul can be found at: paulmcpoet (Twitter) PaulMcPoet (Facebook)

New from Spoken Label is a old friend from Spoken Label, Pete Slater who returns with a brief chat and lots of his poetry. Poetry read out in this session include: 1) The End of Summer 2) We are Soldiers 3) Homeless Blues 4) No Return. 5) Olden Days Pete can be found on facebook as PeteSlaterPoet and youtube as the same.