Spoken Label

Spoken Label

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Spoken Label episodes

  • Roz Ottery (Spoken Label, June 2023)


    The latest Spoken Label Session (Spoken Word / Poetry / Artist) Podcast features the wonderful Roz Ottery, originally from both Portsmouth and London

    but now based in Yorkshire.


    This Podcast covers as well as Roz’s wonderful work her career of over 40 years in entertainment industrystry as a Juggler, Stilt Walker,

    Clown, introduced Singing Telegrams to the UK (including singing them for Tom O’Connor, Morecambe and Wise and Bob Geldof), joint work
    with John Lambert, director of Q20 on "The Circus of Mazelek" and then their own duo for over 20 years “Manji and Mo” into her poetry work
    where she has recently had work published in The Printed Words Anthology (Edited by Amanda Nicholson) ‘Nobody Left Behind’. More about Roz’s
    career can be read here:

    https://sorchara.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/50-over-50-interviewees-roz-ottery-stilt-walker-and-clown/

    She is on facebook as: https://www.facebook.com/roz.ottery

    Nobody Left Behind the book Roz is featured on is here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nobody-Behind-Printed-Words-Anthology/dp/B0BNKYKRCY/ref=sr_1_2?crid=20C2QZ7YCEW7X&keywords=amanda+nicholson&qid=1687073154&sprefix=amanda+nicholson%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-2

    46 min
  • Yvonne Reddick (Spoken Label, June 2023)

    Today's Spoken Label Podcast (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features our returning friend, Yvonne Reddick.

    Yvonne Reddick is an award-winning writer, editor, ecopoetry scholar and climber.

    She has received a Leadership Fellowship from the AHRC, the Poetry Society’s inaugural Peggy Poole Award,a Northern Writer’s Award and a Creative Futures Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The Guardian Review, Poetry Review and New Statesman, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC North West Tonight.

    She has published four pamphlets, including Translating Mountains (Seren, 2017), winner of the Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Competition, and Spikenard (Laureate’sChoice, 2019), which was a poetry recommendation in the London Review of Books.

    Our chat today covers mostly her first book length collection, Burning Season, published by Blood Axe.

    Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature’s defiance. Yvonne Reddick’s understanding of climate change is uniquely personal: her father was a petroleum engineer, and many members of her family worked in the fossil fuel industry. The collection speaks of the paradox that her Dad’s gift to her was her love of nature and mountain landscapes.

    Burning Season includes a series of vivid, moving and heartfelt poems that explore her grief following her father’s death in a hiking accident. These are set against a wider backdrop of ecological loss and heartbreak.

    Yvonne's website is: http://yvonnereddick.org/

    49 min
  • Aqeel Parvez (Spoken Label, June 2023)

    New from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Author / Poet Podcast) features Aqeel Parvez.
    Aqeel Parvez is a poet who lives in Leeds, UK. He is the author of numerous chapbooks including "The Streetlights Are Beckoning Nirvana" (Analog Submission Press).
    His work has been published among other places in 16 Pages Press, Sludge Lit, Horror Sleaze Trash, Back Patio Press, Saturday Night Bombers and is also one of the committee members of Bone Down, the literary affinity group.
    He can be found on as Instagram @ap.writer, & twitter @aqeelparvez

    43 min
  • Amy Langley (Spoken Label, May 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry / Artist Podcast) features the wonderful Amy Langley.


    Amy has been writing poetry since she was 5 years old; her first experience of writing poetry was when she stayed at her grandparents, who lived in Wiltshire, in the summer holidays; she used to have a little book next to her bed; she would hear the birds singing and be inspired to write.

    Amy continued my writing throughout her childhood and recalls writing a poetry book and gifting it to one of her favourite primary school teachers.

    Amy used to perform on Manchester’s open mic night scene when she was 18, a lot of it was freestyling however there was some pre-written material.

    There was a little hiatus from performing but the stage soon came back to being a spotlight in Amy’s heart in 2017 when she began performing at The Wonder Inn in Manchester City centre. Then followed The Old Abbey Tap House in Hulme to further expanding to Dulcimer in Chorlton, Mind Over Matter in Camden, BYOB at Box Park in Wembley, Mind Over Matter in Ancoats, Pull Up Bar in Ancoats and has spoken at Sale Write Out Loud a few times.

    One thing Amy is sure of; her love of writing and performing poetry; expressing herself through word allows her to set free thoughts, feelings & share experiences that can benefit those that take the time to listen.


    More about Amy can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/amythepoet_/

    40 min
  • Caitlin Kendall (Spoken Label, May 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features the awesome Caitlin Kendall.

    Caitlin's work is magical, melodic and homely, whilst retaining an air of politically-charged attitude. Currently firmly ensconced in the far reaches of Northern England, she got her first Bent Key publication as part of our first period zine, Bloody Hell, and is a valued member of the Bent Key community. With poetry that zips together the turbulent journey of motherhood with a deep connection with the earth and nature wrapped in human emotion, her words will grab you by the wrist and pull you into another world.

    More about Caitlin can be found here - https://www.bentkeypublishing.co.uk/caitlin-kendall

    Her debut collection 'Nothing is yours' can be purchased here:

    https://www.bentkeypublishing.co.uk/shop?page=2

    49 min
  • Sara Jayne (Spoken Label, May 2023)

    Latest Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Poetry Podcast) features the wonderful Sara Jayne.

    Sara Jayne is an established singer, who grew up in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy. Having covered many popular bars and restaurants across South Manchester since 2019, Sara Jayne recently debuted her poetry performance at the much loved SpeakEasy poetry night.
    Sara Jayne Provides captivating vocals as a professional singer and thought-provoking poetry that aims to decode life and it’s many contradictions using wordplay.

    Her Instagram feed is: https://www.instagram.com/sarajaynehaq/

    39 min
  • Mark Jackson (Keith's Brother) (Spoken Label, May 2023)

    Latest Episode from Spoken Label (Author/Poet/Storyteller Podcast) features the return of our friend, the storyteller Mark Jackson aka Keith's Brother.
    Mark's bio says "In 2010 Mark started writing. After the initial euphoria of finding an outlet for that creative fire burning within since childhood, he soon realised that the world wasn't quite ready for his tales of Ian Brown drinking piss, cocaine-induced paranoia, The Stockholm Monsters, the inner workings of a massage parlor, of pretending to be Norman Whiteside in Las Vegas, selling snide football programs outside the Nou Camp, of being arrested wearing someone else's jeans and one about an auntie who looks a bit like Clint Boon.
    He’s written non-fiction pieces for Vice website (which were really fiction - but they don't know that), a regular contributor to United We Stand Fanzine and occasionally reads at spoken word events around Manchester and Liverpool"
    His website is: www.keithsbrother.com
    His Pod Play 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' can be accessed via his website or found on Spotify, Itunes/Apple or Google Podcast.

    44 min
  • Eric Loveland Heath (Spoken Label, May 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Artist) Podcast features a dear friend of ours, the wonderful Eric Loveland Heath.

    Eric Loveland Heath is vicariously a musician (E.L. Heath), owner of a tiny record label (Plenty Wenlock Records) and an author of short stories. He's also quite possibly Shropshire's only ondist.
    Eric has released a number of EPs and albums over nearly 20 years - including 2013's Welsh language album 'Tŷ' (released via epic45's 'Wayside and Woodland Recordings' label) - which was named album of the week by BBC Radio Cymru and Radio Foyle.
    He runs Plenty Wenlock Records with his partner Victoria, producing short runs of mainly intricately hand-fashioned releases by Heath, alongside others by friends and contemporaries.
    Eric is currently completing his first collection - 'The Arch and Other Stories' - inspired by the rural, the ritual and the obscure. In 2021 his debut short story 'THE COLISEUM' was published by the website Horrified, featuring in their 'Folk Horror - Horror Stories from Horrified - Volume 2' anthology.
    Plenty Wenlock Records - https://linktr.ee/plentywenlock
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ELHeathuk
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/EL_Heath
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/e.l.heath/

    43 min
  • Tuesday Tony (Spoken Label, May 2023)

    Latest up from Spoken Label in a full length episode features the wonderful Tuesday Tony talking about the relaunch of Tuesday Tony Presents.
    Tuesday Tony presents ia a weekly spoken word (poetry) / music / comedy
    / half ared karaoke every Tuesday at the Thirsty Scholar and Zombie Shack, Manchester, UK.
    The night is being relaunched on 31 January 2023 on a weekly basis.
    Free entry sign up from 7pm.
    Tony can be contacted on facebook at www.facebook.com/tuesdaytony.willambolton

    29 min
  • Bonus Episode - Live Zoom Book Launch for 'The Scope of art and poetry' (Spoken Label, April 2023)

    Bonus Episode for Spoken Label of the book launch for "The scope of art and poetry'(edited by Daniel Kay and Mel Wardle Woodend).
    The book is described as "This anthology aims to raise money and awareness for disability charity Scope.
    The book contains a selection of poetry and art from both well-known and emerging poets and artists. In each piece the art has inspired the poetry. This is known as ekphrasis.
    The collection includes poems about living with a disability, as well as those that explore the social and political aspects of everyday lives.
    The anthology is a celebration of people's lives and experiences, and all proceeds from the book will go to Scope.
    Edited by Daniel Kay and Mel Wardle Woodend with cover art by Paul Riding.
    Published by Dream Well Writing Ltd - Staffordshire based publishers of dyslexia friendly books with worldwide distribution and an environmentally conscious ethos founded in 2017 by Mel Wardle Woodend Staffordshire Poet Laureate 2019 – 2022.
    https://www.dreamwellwriting.simplesite.com"
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scope-Art-Poetry-Various-Authors/dp/173971055X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1681328773&refinements=p_27%3AMel+Wardle+Woodend&s=books&sr=1-1

    46 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.