Spoken Label

Spoken Label

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Spoken Label episodes

  • Marigold Lately (Spoken Label, October 2023)

    Next up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features a lady who has been making a bit of a splash recently, Marigold Lately.
    Marigold Lately was born in the Autumn of 2022 after a gestation period of more than 50 years. Since her birth she has performed at approaching 100 comedy and spoken word events throughout the Northwest.
    Sorrowful and snarling - sharing tales and often surreal, comic commentary from someone ‘stuck on a pin’, wriggling, who is willing to share it.
    Marigold is viciously gentle – straddling genres but never sitting on the fence.
    She will be making her stage debut in her one-woman show 'Dirty Old Town' in November at the Hope Street Theatre, Liverpool.
    ‘Dirty Old Town’ is a dark, comic place where characters are not always quite what they seem.
    The show is a combination of storytelling, stand up comedy and performance. Hilariously NOT funny.
    Tickets for the show can be purchased here - ticketquarter.co.uk/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=BA2EEBD1-13AB-488C-B628-CE012727616B&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=0427BB2C-351C-4E2B-824E-AB6CCFD44536
    More details are here www.instagram.com/marigoldlately/  

    42 min
  • Rebecca Dharlingue (Spoken Label, October 2023)

    The latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) sees us return to meet an returning friend, the wonderful Rebecca Dharlingue to chat about her new novel 'The Map Colorist'.

    Rebecca advises " In writing my first novel, The Lines Between Us, I returned to an early love, Spanish literature, which I studied in graduate school. The idea of setting part of my novel in seventeenth-century Spain, their Golden Age of literature, offered me the chance to explore a time and place with which many readers are unfamiliar, and to show some of the challenges for women particular to that time and place.

    For my second novel, I decided to stay in the seventeenth century, as I find it fascinating. I wanted to show a woman doing something unusual for the time, and I hit upon the topic of cartography. In my research I soon learned that Amsterdam was the capital of map-printing at that time, so I had my setting. It was while I was exploring that world that I came across the work of map colorists. My protagonist was born.

    I have worked in hospital administration and as a teacher of English as a Second Language to adults. I have been lucky to be involved with the same monthly book group, sharing our enchantment with literature, for over thirty years. I live in Oakland, California with my husband, Arthur, where we are fortunate to frequently spend time with our children and grandchildren.

    I am member of Paper Lantern Writers, an author collective, and the Historical Novel Society."

    Rebecca's Website which contains details of where to buy her book is https://rebeccadharlingue.com/

    34 min
  • Zainab Ahmad (Spoken Label, October 2023)

    Making her debut today on Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features new to the Manchester (UK) Spoken Word Scene, the wonderful Zainab Ahmad perhaps better known as the Intangible Author talking about Zainab's debut poetry book "Edge of Salvation".
    The book is described as "Sometimes we find ourselves fighting for our lives at the bottom of a hole. It’s dark, damp, and you’re exhausted. You’re not exactly sure how you got there but you definitely fell.
    Do you stay there and wait for someone to save you or try climbing out? The wait could be endless and the climb is tough. This is the journey to the edge of salvation. Told through a series of poems about life, love, grief, and longing. All written at some point of this journey."
    The book can be purchased at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edge-Salvati...

    Zainab is on Instagram at:  theintangibleauthor  

    52 min
  • Lilyth Coglan (Spoken Label, September 2023)

    * Containing topics not suitable for all *
    Making her debut today on Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Poet Podcast) is the wonderful Lilyth Coglan.
    Lilyth Coglan is a writer and poet from Hull in the UK. She writes short stories and poetry, about motherhood, mental health domestic abuse and life in general. Her work has been in local festivals and featured on BBC Sounds as well as her local broadcasting service BBC Look North. You can follow her on Twitter and on Instagram at Lilyth Poetry / Lilyth Coglan
    #poetrypodcast #podcast #spokenwordpodcast #spokenword .

    39 min
  • Lou Ann Bardash (Spoken Label, September 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Artist Podcast) making her debut is a dear friend of ours, the wonderful - the singer and artist Lou Ann Bardash.
    Lou Ann's bio advises "Originally from Effingham, IL, Lou Ann attended Southern Illinois University, graduating with a degree in Music Business before moving to Nashville with her first series of original songs. She spent the next 18 years singing, playing music and making art. Since moving to Austin in 1999, she has exhibited and sold her work in coffee houses and restaurants, while also producing nonprofit workplace art installations at agencies such as Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid and United Way. Her 13-piece art series, Alzheimer’s Memories, was featured in a live tv show on Channel Austin, during which Lou Ann walked through the exhibit while discussing the story behind each painting. "
    Her website is https://www.louannbardash.com/
    * As a bonus after the chat features - a song is included with Lou Ann and her husband Tom Ovans - a cover off Tom's song with Lou Ann singing 'Song for the Homeless' from an album both her and Tom are working on
    #TomOvans #LouAnnBardash #Artist #Art #ArtistPodcast #Podcast #ArtPodcast #SingerPodcast #Music #MusicPodcast #Texas

    44 min
  • Mary Fucking Poppins. (Spoken Label, September 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Poetry Podcast) features the debut from Liverpool, Mary Fucking Poppins.

    Mary is a working class writer/poet.

    She makes the UK Literary zine Word Vomit and also hosts the Word Vomit Open Mic Poetry Night at Round The Corner, Liverpool.

    She has recently bought out her debut collection "Hop on the Bad Foot and do the good thing'


    Some links:

    https://www.instagram.com/mary_fuckingpoppins/

    https://strictlyunprofessional.bigcartel.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/word.vomitzine/

    https://falaun.bandcamp.com/

    https://www.facebook.com/falaunhc/

    https://www.instagram.com/back_room_poetry/

    53 min
  • Kate Wilson (Spoken Label, August 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Poetry Podcast) features the return of our

    friend, Kate Wilson talking about her new poetry collection 'The Impossibility of Love'.
    ‘The Impossibility of Love’ it is stated takes the reader on a journey through a gallery
    of Vincent Van Gogh’s best loved paintings. The poems in this collection draw inspiration
    from Van Gogh’s works of art, reflecting on themes of love, loss, and memory.
    This ekphrastic sequence evokes the blistering colour of Van Gogh’s work in wheatfields,
    on moonlit plazas, and under starry skies. In this landscape the poet finds hope and a
    potency of feeling which often borders on destructive. The paintings become both a means
    of escape and a way of deriving meaning as they intersect with the poet’s own experience.
    Writing to Van Gogh with great tenderness, Wilson presents the reader with a collection
    which can be read as an extended love letter to one of our greatest artists.
    She explores the tragic story of his life, posing the question: what does it mean to
    live with such intensity?
    The collection has being published by Bosporus Press but copies can be purchased from Kate
    directly at http://www.katejwilson.co.uk/#poetrypodcast #podcast #spokenword #poetry #podcast #spokenwordpodcast #vangogh #VanGoghpoetry

    39 min
  • Michelle Steiner (Spoken Label, August 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the wonderful Michelle Steiner,
    Michelle Steiner is a disability, writer, advocate, and paraeducator. She published articles on The Mighty, Non-Verbal Learning Project, Dyscalculia Blog, The Reluctant Spoonie, Imagine the World as One Magazine, and Word Gathering. Recently she began a blog called Michelle’s Mission. Her photographs were featured in Word Gathering and Independent and Work Ready. She works as a paraeducator in a school with students with disabilities. She lives in The United States with her husband and two cats.
    Her website is: https://www.michellesmission.net/

    30 min

About Spoken Label

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Spoken Label is a podcast series designed to interview and record sessions from authors, poets, artists, musicians etc in North West England and beyond.