Spoken Label

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By: Andy N

Spoken Label is a podcast series designed to interview and record sessions from authors, poets, artists, musicians etc in North West England and beyond. Formed in 2015 and ran / edited by Andy N, author of ‘Return to Kemptown’ and ‘The End of Summer’,it is always often to submissions from interested artists. Email: aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk

Belle Kenyon (Spoken Label, May 2024)
Last Wednesday at 9:38 PM

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend, Isabelle Kenyon.

Isabelle Kenyon (Belle to me) is a Manchester writer and the author of 5 chapbooks including Growing Pains (Indigo Dreams).  She has had work and articles published internationally and newspapers such as The Somerville Times and The Bookseller.

She is also the founder of Fly on the Wall Press. Fly on the Wall is a social enterprise company and a not for profit publisher, based in Manchester. We publish high quality anthologies on pressing issues, chapbooks and poetry products, from ex...


Dogstar Rose (Spoken Label, May 2024)
Last Sunday at 6:40 PM

Latest up from Spoken Label (Artist Podcast) features the singer Dogstar Rose.Dogstar Rose originates from North London and now lives in the Wirral and delivers her music with an inimitable style of sleaze and grace. Dogstar is a singer/songwriter of alternative value, and fronts the band 'futurejack'. Her performance evokes the emotion of a hard rock, punk pop, soulful personality.Links include:https://www.facebook.com/DogstarRosehttps://www.facebook.com/futurejack


Arini Vlotman (Spoken Label, May 2024)
05/08/2024

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Writer Podcast) features Arini Vlotman

Arini advises she "a romance fanatic, book worm, book hoarder and writer. Writers are my superheroes; readers are my tribe. I’m a people’s person and a wordy nerd so I can find comfort in almost any space but there is nothing quite like being at home with my husband, son and fur babies.Living in Johannesburg, South Africa has given me a slightly quirky world view- we laugh at ourselves all the time here so sometimes my sense of humor doesn’t translate into my wor...


M. L. Liebler (Spoken Label, May 2024)
05/01/2024

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features the wonderful M. L. Liebler. M. L. Liebler is an internationally known & widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer.

He was named The 2017-2018 Murray E. Jackson Scholar in the Arts Award at Wayne State University. Liebler is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream (Wayne State University Press 2008) featuring poems written in and about Russia, Israel, Germany, Alaska and Detroit. Wide Awake won both The Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellenceand The...


Various (Spoken Label, April 2024)
04/29/2024

Latest Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) is a various artist Poetry Podcast

co-hosted with ML Liebler (whose own podcast will follow next) features

some student and a fellow young creative writing faculty member.


Writers featured are:


Alexis Ball is a 20-year-old English and creative writing student at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. They are passionate about poetry and have been writing since they learned the alphabet. Alexis hopes to one day work for an editing and publishing company and possibly become a college professor later...


Amanda Crundall (Spoken Label, April 2024)
04/24/2024

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features making her debut, Amanda Crundall.

Amanda advises she "began to write again in January 2022 after her friends urged her to write down how she was feeling as a therapeutic outlet; so she did. She has rediscovered her creative self, amongst being a busy mummy and working life. Amanda works as a full time heart failure nurse specialist and is a single mother to two amazing children. Surprising many of her friends how she finds the time amongst such a busy life remains her best kept secret. You...


Patrick Widdess (Spoken Label, April 2024)
04/17/2024

Latest up from Spoken Label 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 No...


Grant Curnow (Spoken Label, April 2024)
04/10/2024

Latest up from Spoken Label 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 albu...


Kate Jenkinson (Spoken Label, April 2024)
04/03/2024

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features Dr Kate Jenkinson.

Dr 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...


Hannah Ledlie (Spoken Label, March 2024)
03/30/2024

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.

Her Instagram page is: https://www.instagram.com/hannahledlie/

her email address is: hannahledlie@gmail.com
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