Spoken Label

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 exceptional poets around the globe, with socially conscious themes. This Podcast primarily talks about her debut novel 'The Dark within them'. The Dark within them is described as "In this gripping psychological thriller, faith-healer Amber thinks she's found peace in Lehi, the small Mormon town she's moved her family to. But when a death affects her family, her safe haven shatters. As the tight-knit community closes ranks to protect its secrets at all costs, Amber's world unravels. With her beliefs shaken and nothing feeling certain anymore, she's faced with an impossible choice: take a leap of faith to protect her loved ones, or risk losing everything by exposing the truth.   "Luring you in with promises of happily ever after, Kenyon quickly removes any feelings of comfort..." - The Northern Bookworm   But how far is too far when it comes to protecting those you love?   A TIGHT-KNIT MORMON COMMUNITY.   BODIES BURIED IN THE GARDEN.   ONE FAMILY DIVIDED.   ‘intense and compelling…an enormously talented writer’ - Shabnom Khanom   'a honed and beautiful writing style…not your usual psychological thriller’ - Debz Hobbs-Wyatt   'A must-read for fans of Paula Hawkins or M. T. Edvarsson... A gripping, pacy thriller.'  - Northern Soul Magazine   'Isolated and without even her faith to call on, Amber is left to determine how much darkness is really within her.' - The Northern Bookworm   'Kenyon’s book explores themes of faith, motherhood and marriage with nuance. At the same time, the plot propels the reader forward with the claustrophobic tension of recent grip-lit classics like The Girl on the Train.' - Crime Culture Magazine" For more details go to: https://www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/

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

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 words. Be kind, I think I’m funny!One my favourite hobbies is Fangirling (is that a thing?). Musicians, books, movies or obscure characters, when I find something that I love I delve into that world like Harry Potter diving into the Whomping Willow." Her debut novel is "Pretty Average". More details can be found at: https://arinivlotman.co.za/

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 American Indie Book Award for 2009. In 2005, he was named St. Clair Shores (his hometown) first Poet Laureate. Liebler has read and performed his work in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Russia, China, France, UK, Macao, Italy, Germany, Spain, Finland and most of the 50 States. M.L. Liebler has taught English, Creative Writing, American Studies, Labor Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1980, and he is the founding director of both The National Writer's Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization. He was selected as Best Detroit Poet by The Detroit Free Press & Detroit's Metro Time. Liebler became the Co-Editor In 2010, he received The Barnes & Noble Poets & Writers Writers for Writers Award with Maxine Hong Kingston & Junot Diaz. In 2011, his groundbreaking anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock & Kicking Out the James (Coffee House Press) was given a 2011 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award. In 2017, Liebler received a total of 4 Library of Michigan Notable Book Awards for both his new collection of poems entitled I Want to Be Once (Wayne State University Press / Made in Michigan Series) and for Heaven Was Detroit: An Anthology of Detroit Music Essays from Jazz to Hiphop (The Wayne State University Press Painted Turtle Series) Editor. Bob Seger's House: An Anthology of Michigan Short Stories (Co-Editor with Mike Delp). Both Heaven Was Detroit and Bob Seger's House are Finalist for the prestigious Forward Book Awards. 2020 saw the release of RESPECT: Poets on Detroit Music edited by M. L. Liebler & Jim Daniels (Michigan State University Press 2020). RESPECT just received both a 2021 Tillie Olsen Award & 2021 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award. In September 2020, M. L. was awarded the Michigan Humanities Champion of the Year. Liebler received a Wayne State University Distinguished Scholar Award for 2024-2026. He curretly directs The WSU Humanities Commons and The Detroit Writers' Guild. M.L. Liebler can be contacted on his website https://www.mlliebler.com/

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 in life. Nicholas Lowengruber I've been writing poetry since 2016 after reading an excerpt from Walden, but I didn't really know what I was doing until studying under poets at Wayne State University like ML and Robert Laidler. One of my biggest regrets so far is ever reading Ezra Pound; I how I wanted to be him growing up (except without being a fascist), and I still need to take time before I learn to appreciate the respect for imagery and the capability to take an object and look at it through many different lenses that Pound instilled in me. I'm wrapping up my third year at Wayne State University, double majoring in Philosophy and English; thinking too much is a curse, and I'm learning to work with it. Regarding my more current work, I'm an e.e. cummings devotee and continuing to learn to make poetry weird, turning towards the Language movement. Currently pondering Eve's morally questionable decision to leave Caleb trapped at the end of Ex Machina after everything that they went through. young creative writing faculty member Robert Laidler. Email address for each of the writers are: mlliebler@aol.com, (ML Liebler) Rtlaidle@wayne.edu, hg8410@wayne.edu (Nick), alexis.ball@wayne.edu

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 can find Amanda performing at her local spoken word events at Speak Out Scunny, The Confessional, Away with Words. Her debut performance was at Yada Yada Noise in February 2022 to whom she is more than grateful to; a special shout out to Alice & Mickey. She now proudly co-hosts 'Rabbiting On' spoken word group held at 'The Rabbit Hole' Independent bookshop, Brigg alongside poetry babe and partner in poetry Amy Garratt. Her poetry was featured in The Scroll Magazine during October 2022. In 2023, Amanda performed her poetry at The Festival of Love, D31 Art Gallery, Doncaster and Scunthorpe Pride on behalf of the Speak Out Scunny. She co hosted the spoken word stage at the No Limits Festival 2023 held at Normanby Hall, Scunthorpe. More recently, Amanda has taken to the radio waves and has featured both pre-recorded and 'live on air' for Phoenix Community Radio, Goole. Without this outlet and the support of friends and family, life would be a much darker place. This is her debut publication. Contact details: Email: Shewearsherheartonhersleeve@proton.me Facebook: 'She wears her heart on her sleeve' Twitter (X): Heartsleeve2024 Instagram: @AmandaCrundallPoet"

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 Norwich where he works as a production journalist and freelance writer. Links include: http://patrickwiddess-writer.weebly.com/ https://poetrynonstop.com/

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 album "Troubles of an Amateur Timelord" is out on seahorse records and can be streamed on Spotify "https://open.spotify.com/album/0XSU7Z3sS3burD46xAsops"

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 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.

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

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/

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Pdocast) making his debut features from Glossop, the amazing Danny McLoughlin More about Danny can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/betweenthisthoughtandthat/ More about Danny can be found at:https://lnkd.in/ef3Z8rCSEmail: dannyomc@gmail.comHe 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. His email is: dannyomc@gmail.com

Latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Lynn Walton. Lynn advises "I am a Salford based poet and some of my work centres on this inspiring city and nearby Manchester. My work moves from serious to amusing to risqué. 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 https://www.lynnwaltonpoet.co.uk/ She is also on facebook at:

Latest up from Spoken Label features the wonderful Nayma Chamchoun. 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.

* Poetry contains topics not suitable for all * 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." Amy's book can be found on Amazon.

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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/#poetrypodcast

Latest up from Spoken Label (Actor / Artist / Poet Podcast) features the amazing Neil Bell. Neil is an actor and performance poet born in Oldham, Lancashire UK in 1970. and raised in the border town of Failsworth. Made in Manchester. His credits include roles in Dead Men's Shoes, Dune, Peterloo and Perky Blinders. His poetry book 'Clog' is now out. Some links include: https://cliveisagoodguy.com/ https://www.livebythespin.com/ https://www.clog.live/ https://www.cameo.com/neil.bell44 https://www.instagram.com/neil.bell44/ https://app.spotlight.com/7214-7838-3370 https://www.clog.live/neil-bell-actor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bell_(actor) )

Latest Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) session featuring making his debut the amazing DK talking about his debut book "Off the Cuff" available from mini poetry press."Off the Cuff" is described as "a poetic gem that will strike a chord with readers of all ages. DK's compelling verse delves into the complexities of humanity, uncovering hidden truths and shedding light on what makes us human. Captivating and thought-provoking, this collection explores the nuances of our emotions and the depth of our connections. With a unique perspective and a gift for words, DK has crafted a collection that will linger long after the last page is turned. Off the Cuff is a must-read for anyone who values emotional authenticity and poetic mastery. Get ready to be inspired by one of the most exciting new voices in poetry today." The book can be purchased from: https://shop.minipoetrypress.com/product/off-the-cuff For more about DK go to: https://www.dk4poetry.com/

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) making his debut is the wonderful K Scott Fuchs. K. Scott Fuchs is a novelist, poet, and performer. Time and Temperance is his first novel released; the follow-up prequel sequel, Mrs. Coleman of Coalbrookdale is set to be released in early 2024. He is also the author of the poetry compilations, Six Months in Wigan and Poetry from Ryecroft Hall which are also forthcoming. Time and Temperance is described as “Along the canals outside of Marple, England, a despondent and lonely soul crosses paths with Temperance Lee-a woman whose beauty and elegance is matched only by her warmth, intelligence, charm, and wit. Their connection is instant, a love that defies explanation. But Temperance harbours a secret, one that shadows her every step: she is not an ordinary woman and she is not from this time. In this electrifying split-time, dual-narrative saga that melds the Victorian era with the twenty-first century, love collides with the supernatural in a dramatic and action-filled tale of healing, redemption, and recovery. As a passionate and tumultuous romance unfolds, two souls from different times and places find that their love does not come without challenges and troubles; challenges and troubles that they must overcome together whilst they confront their past traumas. But it will take more than just time-it will take understanding, exploration, faith, and unwavering belief in the power of love. The book can be purchased on Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Temperance-K-Scott-Fuchs/dp/B0CQSRTF6X/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1704134383&refinements=p_27%3AK.+Scott+Fuchs&s=books&sr=1-2&text=K.+Scott+Fuchs