Spoken Label

Latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Author / ArtistPodcast) features making her debut, Lucy Beth.

 Lucy Beth (she/her/hers) is a multi-award-winningemerging performer, theatre-maker and lecturer from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.

​​She graduated with Distinction from the University of Glasgow’s MLitt Theatre & Performance Practices Course after being awarded a PGT Excellent Scholarship bythe University.

​​Lucy has worked on various stage, screen, and audioprojects. Her recent credits include Blanca in Ten Feet Tall's production of "Guilty" by Rona Munro at Granite Noir Festival. Penny in “How To Train Your Dad To Be A Feminist” at the Aberdeen Arts C...

First of a two part Podcast today from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features discussing 'I am nature' an Environmental Poetry book with two of their poets, Leaf Pettit and Diana Sanders.

Leaf Pettit lives in the vale of Clwyd with her husband and three children.

Rural north ales has been her home since she was three years old and she has developed a deep connection with its landscape and environment, choosing to raise and home-educate her children.

Leaf has been active in caring for local green spaces and...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend Sarah James (also known as Sarah Leavesley ) talking about her new poetry book 'Darling Blue'.

Darling Blue interweaves ekphrastic poems with a book-length fictional poetry narrative of love, lust and letting go. The poems inspired by Pre-Raphaelite artworks include QR codes, which readers can scan to view the pieces after or alongside their reading. Blue here is more than a colour or inspiration; it is desire, secrecy and sorrow – the essence of ‘feeling / really alive’, yet ‘distance’s illusion’.

“A fascinating creative hybrid weaving e...

Latest up from Spoken Label features making her debut, Suzy Aspell.

Suzy is a Bedfordshire poet, living and writing in Luton. Curious about world cultures, she has worked in the travel industry for many years including repping in Spain and teaching ESL in Taiwan. Her poems are published in numerous anthologies, online and print magazines. Suzy also tutors GCSE English students struggling with ADHD and Dyslexia. She is passionate about art, politics and the planet and has a very pampered cat full of mischief and brio.

Her debut book 'Webstrung' is now out.

...

Happy New Year all folks!

Back with a bang, the first Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) Podcast of the year features the Hongwei Bao.

Hongwei Bao (he/him) is a Nottingham-based queer Chinese writer, translator and academic. He is part of the Fifth Word Playwrights, GOBS Spoken Word Collective and Nottingham Playhouse Writers’ Room. He is also a Middle Way Mentee for writing fiction and a New Earth Theatre theatremaker. His work explores queer desire, Asian identity, diasporic positionality and transcultural intimacy.

Hongwei is the author of Dream of the Orchid Pavilion (poetry pamp...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Dr Jack Hunter.Dr Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is an Hon-orary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and a tu-tor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, Uni-versity of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches on the MA in Ecol-ogy and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrol-ogy. He is also a tutor for the Alef Trust on their MSc in Conscious-ness...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend with Part 2 of an extended chat, tea buff, weird fiction aficionado and abstracted songwriter, Eric Loveland Heath, professionally known as E.L. Heath.

In this return on Spoken Label, we review Eric's releases on Plenty Wenlock Records in 2025 and also the venture of his label into more publishing as well as discuss what is next for this label.

Some links include:

https://www.facebook.com/ELHeathuk/

https://plentywenlockrecords.bandcamp.com/

https://x.com...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend with Part 1 of an extended chat, tea buff, weird fiction aficionado and abstracted songwriter, Eric Loveland Heath, professionally known as E.L. Heath.

In this return on Spoken Label, we review Eric's releases on Plenty Wenlock Records in 2025 and also the venture of his label into more publishing as well as discuss what is next for this label.

Some links include:

https://www.facebook.com/ELHeathuk/

https://plentywenlockrecords.bandcamp.com/

https://x.com/PlentyWenlock

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry / Author Podcast) features Shan Powell.

Shan is a Elder goth/swamp hag in Kitchener. Aurora finalist. Brave New Weird winner. Work in Augur, The Deadlands, On Spec, Prairie Fire, ALOCASIA, Nighmare, Feminist Studies Journal, Arc Poetry, & more.

Neurospicy, antifascist, Indigiqueer, disabled. Raised on the land & off the grid. Ex JW-kid/army brat. Retired dancer, industrial DJ, & model. Addicted to learning—may be turning into a witch.

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Zoe Mitchell.

Zoe Mitchell is a widely-published poet whose work has been featured in a number of magazines including The Rialto, The London Magazine and The Moth. She graduated from the University of Chichester with an MA in Creative Writing and was awarded a Distinction and the Kate Betts Memorial Prize. She is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, examining witches in women’s poetry. In 2018, she was joint winner of the Indigo-First Collection Competition and her fi...

Latest up from Spoken Label, features making her debut is the wonderful Rachel Hammond.

Rachel Hammond is an actor-musician, writer and theatre maker based in Manchester. 

Rachel trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, and since then has worked in theatre nationally and internationally, including: Climax: A Work in Progress (Close to Home), Underneath a Magical Moon (Tutti Frutti), Joy Unspeakable (Ordinary Glory), Firebird and Pulse (Bamboozle Theatre Company), Give it Back Mak! (Riding Lights), Twitchers and A Force to Be Reckoned With (Mikron Theatre Company), The True Adventures of Maid Marian and Robin Hood (Barn Theatre, Ciren...

Latest up from Spoken Label features making her debut is the wonderful Saira Anwar (Saira the Poet).

Saira Anwar is an educator, poet, author, content creator, and spoken word artist. Her debut poetry collection, The Death of a Beautiful Dream, was released in January 2014 and went on to reach Amazon’s Top 20 Bestsellers list.Saira writes about the beauty and struggle of life with themes like marriage, divorce, healing, self-love, and emotional resilience, to help others heal through poetry.Her poetry has been published in twelve anthologies, and she’s performed at events including MACFEST with Professor John...

Bonus Podcast today for Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) with the return of Amanda Nicholson and Courtney Ward assisting me interviewing the return of Lee McShane talking about his debut poetry book 'The House built from Shadows'.

Lee McShane is a Neurodivergent actor, filmmaker, and published writer and poet from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His work often blends psychological horror with themes of mental health, creating emotionally charged and thought-provoking narratives. His writing has appeared in All Your Stories, All Your Poems, and the PoeticEdge Fantasy Anthology. He will appear in the next anthology by Black Eye Publishing...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) making his debut is Steve Schlam.

Steve advises he first gained entry to the City of Words through the doors of the public library in Brooklyn, New York, where he was born and spent a good part of his childhood; and has maintained his residency ever since while living in cities and towns across the United States and in Mexico. An actor as well as an author, he has performed on stages in all the places he has called home, and earned a Master's Degree in Creative Writing and...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features making his debut, Ray Whitaker.

Ray advises he has been writing both prose and poetry since he was seventeen. What Ray is writing now is very different from what he wrote those so many years ago. All writers and poets are writing out of "the Self" however there are directions that the self speaks into, that change. Now Ray is attempting to put foremost in his work, just who he is writing for. He intends on writing for the everyday man and woman. He firmly...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making her debut, Catherine Holland Bax.

Catherine is the Author of Little Viking House and the Badger Resistance Army.

Catherine lives in Shropshire with two cats, several chickens, and three Icelandic horses. She created EponaWise to support her writing and her desire for better leadership in the world.

Catherine has always loved telling stories and has never stopped believing that she can talk to animals. So when she began to write her stories down, they had animals at their heart.

A graduate...

Crossing with the Writing Way Podcast, Andy N and Amanda Nicholson fresh off the release of their books 'Threads and other stories of isolation (Andy N under his real name A.E. Nicholson) and 'Under the Manchester Skies (Amanda as Alicia Nicholls), the pair of them invite Courtney Ward, author of the forthcoming poetry book (Out Spring 2026) 'Nights like this' to talk about all of their books, what lend to writing this and so much more.

Courtney is on:

https://www.instagram.com/courts_ward/

https://substack.com/@courtneywardpoet

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) features Deborah Weitzman making her debut to talk about her debut novel ‘The Sinking of the Leonardo Da Vinci’.

“The Sinking of the Leonardo Da Vinci’ is described as “Itis 1976, in New York. Joanna, a dreamy and sensitive young woman, suffers deep loneliness and a sense of never belonging. The world of music, of songwriting,draws her toward something deeper, if only she had permission to enter that world.

When she meets Luca, onboard The Leonardo da Vinci, her wildest dreams come true. He-the young navigator of the ship...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Podcast) features making his debut is Craig Snelgrove.

Craig Snelgrove is a writer from Manchester and a PhD in Creative Writing. Craig is author of the short story cycle Young Mancunians, and the creator of The Existential Reader and The Subtext: The Art of Storytelling. (Both available on Substack).

Latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Toni Sidwell from 96 Degrees, a newish coffee cafe set Eccles, next to Salford who talks about the creative / community projects which she is running / co-running at 96 degrees which includes running litter picking, a spoken word / poetry open mic and a writing workship among other things.96 Degrees is based near Eccles Bus Station and the tram station.96 Degrees can be found on facebook - 96 Degrees Eccles(https://www.facebook.com/themalagadrift)Toni is on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/kidwithcactus/They can also be also be found on Instagram and...

Latest up from Spoken Label, features making her return is the wonderful Julia Webb.

Julia advises "I was born in London but grew up on a council estate in Thetford, a small town in rural Norfolk surrounded by pine forest. Thetford is known for being the home of The Iceni tribe, the birthplace of Thomas Paine, the place where they filmed a lot of Dad's Army and (in the 1960s) as a London Overspill town.My ambitions to be a writer started when I was six-years-old and read The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. I can trace...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making her debut is Caroline England.

Known as the ‘Duchess of Dark Domestic Noir’, Caroline England is the author of seven psychological suspense thrillers, BENEATH THE SKIN, the bestseller MY HUSBAND’S LIES, BETRAY HER, THE SINNER, THE STRANGER BESIDE ME and THE RETURN OF FRANKIE WHITTLE. Her next thriller, BEHIND HER SMILE, will be published in November 2025. She also writes gothic-tinged psychological thrillers as CE Rose, namely THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN SECRETS, THE HOUSE ON THE WATER'S EDGE, THE SHADOWS OF RUTHERFORD HOUSE and THE ATTIC AT WILTON...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Artist Podcast) features Lee McShane.

Lee McShane is a Neurodivergent actor, filmmaker, and published writer and poet from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His work often blends psychological horror with themes of mental health, creating emotionally charged and thought-provoking narratives. His writing has appeared in All Your Stories, All Your Poems, and the PoeticEdge Fantasy Anthology. He will appear in Rise of the Badger and the Great Shrubbery by Black Eye Publishing.

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features Mark Quinn.Mark is described as "I’m a poet, writer, and performer based in Manchester. My work blends humour, honesty, and heart — sometimes thoughtful, sometimes cheeky, always real. Whether it’s on the page or the stage, I’m here to connect with people through words."Mark's books can be all be purchased on Amazon and his website is https://markquinn.uk/

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Author Podcast) features Linda Quinn.
Linda Quinn did most of her growing up in a caravan in West Country fields and byways, and later as a child of the state. She was inspired by the written word when she received her first postcard at the age of three, and set out to rescue as many printed words as she could from the local recycling dump, a collection that continues to grow.
After working in the Music Industry she trained as an actress at East 15 Drama School, and was the founder...

* Containing topics not suitable for everybody *

Latest up from Spoken Label, and the second part of a full length two part Podcast is with LKN.

LKN is a poet who won the UK's Wordplay Awards 2023. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023, 2024), T. S. Eliot Prize (2024) & Forward Prize (2025). He was part of A Given Grace by Squircle Line Press, winning the gold medal, both at America's eLit, and the Independent Book Publishers Awards 2022. LKN has been featured at literature festivals in Toronto, Nottingham and Singapore. His poems were showcased at History Channel's HistoryCon, Weiner Holocaust...

Latest up from Spoken Label, and the first part of a full length two part Podcast is with LKN.

LKN is a poet who won the UK's Wordplay Awards 2023. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023, 2024), T. S. Eliot Prize (2024) & Forward Prize (2025). He was part of A Given Grace by Squircle Line Press, winning the gold medal, both at America's eLit, and the Independent Book Publishers Awards 2022.

LKN has been featured at literature festivals in Toronto, Nottingham and Singapore. His poems were showcased at History Channel's HistoryCon, Weiner Holocaust Library & the Poetry Society of New...

Latest up from Spoken Label features making his debut is Andy Farhan.

Andy Farhan is a Manchester Based Stand Up Comedian, Theatre Actor and Poet. Been a Theatre Actor for 3 years now. Been on the Radio 4x. Been doing stand up comedy for over 1 year and runs his own Stand Up Comedy Open Mic in Manchester.

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features making his debut is the wonderful Martin CM.

Martin tells his work are "are written to make people smile—or better yet, laugh. They’re intentionally different from the well-meaning, earnest, intense, political kind. His work leans towards the disrespectful: often irreverent, occasionally rude, and usually self-deprecating.

These are poems with little in the way of hidden meanings — written to be performed, not puzzled over. That said, they do often carry a thread of social commentary.Martin has performed across various venues in the North West. A care...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry/Spoken Word Podcast) features the return of our friend Anthony Doyle in a full length Podcast.Anthony Doyle was born in Dublin and raised in Wicklow, Ireland. He has been living in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2000, where he works as a translator of fiction, non-fiction and film scripts from Portuguese. In addition to short stories and poems, he published the children’s book O Lago Secou (Companhia das Letrinhas, Brazil, 2013) and the novel Hibernaculum (Out Of This World Press, USA, 2023). He is a member of the Old Scratch Press short-form collective.This Pod...

....

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making his debut, Richard Sparks (and yes, that is Jack Black in the picture who is talked about in the Podcast).

Richard's bio advises "One morning in 1979 I got a call from an understandably excited Rowan Atkinson.

“John Cleese just called. He’s asked me to be in his new charity show – and can I do The Schoolmaster?”

Er, yes.

I’d written The Schoolmaster for Rowan the previous year, for a revu...

2nd Part of a longer Podcast today from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Genevieve Ray.Genevieve Ray is a Spoken Word Artist, Poet, Director, Producer, Playwright, Actor and Spokeswoman based in Bedfordshire, East England.

She has been published in over 25 publications ranging from anthologies to digital and print magazines.

She has been a guest star in 12 podcasts and a headline act for performances across the UK.

She has been invited to be a Spoken Word Artist/Speaker in the USA (Massacuettes, New York), South Africa, Nigeria and Bhutan.

She...

Part 1 of a longer Podcast wth Part 2 to follow next week, today's Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features making their debut, Genevieve Ray.Genevieve Ray is a Spoken Word Artist, Poet, Director, Producer, Playwright, Actor and Spokeswoman based in Bedfordshire, East England.

She has been published in over 25 publications ranging from anthologies to digital and print magazines.

She has been a guest star in 12 podcasts and a headline act for performances across the UK.

She has been invited to be a Spoken Word...

Making her long overdue return today to Spoken Label (Author Podcast) is Kristina M. Serrano.

Kristina M. Serrano graduated from Cape Fear Community College with an Associate's Degree in Arts, as well as a BFA in Creative Writing Fiction and a Certificate in Publishing from The University of North Carolina Wilmington, landing on the dean's and chancellor's lists. She was the Executive Editor and Prose Editor of an online literary magazine, and, while in college, had the privilege of singing the national anthem at four large events. Slow Echoes is her first published novel, but she has...

Latest up from Spoken Label features making her debut, Lucy Heuschen.

LucyHeuschen is a Pushcart and Forward Prize-nominated poet, born in London and living in the Rheinland, Germany. She is The Poetry Society’s Stanza Rep for Germany. Lucy's work appears in journals such as Dream Catcher,Lighthouse, Obsessed With Pipework, The High Window, Green Ink, Skylight 47, The Storms and Ink Sweat & Tears among others, and in anthologies from Black Bough, Sídhe Press, New Contexts and Yaffle. She was commended in the Poetry Society's Stanza Competition 2024 and shortlisted for Ink Sweat And Tears’ “Pick of the Month”...

The latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Amanda Nicholson doing a live launch of her new novel, 'Death to all men' of course hosted by Andy N.Amanda Nicholson is an author, poet, podcast co-host and copywriter. Her recent novel has the memorable title Death to All Men.Amanda’s poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester, and she won the Bradford Cares 2023 Competition. She Has a Creative Writing MA, and has articles published by Ask.com, Harlequin and Reader's Digest UK, among others.Her book can be bought from including:https://www.amazon.co.uk...

The latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Part 2 of a longer Podcast, making her debut the amazing actress, Jessie Liang, perhaps best known for her appearance in season 1 of 'The Night Agent'.

Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Jessie Liang is a Taiwanese-Brazilian graduate of Studio 58's prestigious Acting conservatory-style program based in Vancouver, Canada. Best known for her recurring roles in The Night Agent and Maid (Netflix), guest starring in Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and her appearances in popular series like Virgin River (Netflix) and Supergirl (CW), Jessie also played J...

The latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Part 1 of a longer Podcast, making her debut the amazing actress, Jessie Liang, perhaps best known for her appearance in season 1 of 'The Night Agent'.

Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Jessie Liang is a Taiwanese-Brazilian graduate of Studio 58's prestigious Acting conservatory-style program based in Vancouver, Canada. Best known for her recurring roles in The Night Agent and Maid (Netflix), guest starring in Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and her appearances in popular series like Virgin River (Netflix) and Supergirl (CW), Jessie also played J...

Bonus Episode today from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) featuring our returning friend, Hayley Lynn Gordon from Giz A Word Collective (Pictured with co-host Rachel Wilton) of which Andy N and Amanda Nicholson will be headlining on Saturday 07 June 2025 over in Liverpool.More about Hayley and Gizaword "Hayley Gordon aka Twisted TalesPoet/Spoken Word Artists/Performer, Co-Creator and Co-Organiser of Giz A Word Collective - @gizaword.collectiveA Scouse spoken word artists and performer and recently had a first publication in The Poetry's Dead Anthology (£10 Amazon)Also been featured on North West radio shows, podcasts and comedy shows in Liverpool. G...