Spoken Label

Latest up from Spoken Label features a special Podcast with Kimberley Goldie aka The Lancashire Wellness Witch.

In this very special Podcast we talk to Kimberley about her work in the NHS and how it has now led to her work as the Lancashire Wellness Witch where in her own words about the services she offers "to help people be happier, healthier and take charge of their own wellbeing. And I aim to do this as naturally as possible, with just a little sprinkle of Lancashire magic!"

More about the Lancashire Wellness Witch can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/lancashirewellnesswitch/

She also has a website at: https://the-lancashire-wellness-witch.sumup.link/

and a instragram page at: https://www.instagram.com/the_lancashire_wellness_witch/

Latest Spoken Label session (Spoken Word / Poetry / Author) session features the wonderful Nick Toczek.  Born in Yorkshire in 1950, Nick has been writing since he was a child, began getting his poetry published in his mid-teens, did his first public readings when he was nineteen, and had his first collection of poetry published when he was twenty-one.  Since then, he’s done more than fifty thousand performances and presentations, has worked in more than forty countries, has published more than forty books, and has never had a ‘proper job’.  

More about Nick can be found at: https://www.nicktoczek.com/

Latest up from Spoken Label features newcomer to the spoken word scene, previously from Stafford but now based Manchester, flash fiction writer Scott Hall.

More about Scott Hill can be found at: 

https://www.instagram.com/hozart_heron/

Latest Episode from Spoken Label (Author/Poet/Storyteller Podcast) features the storyteller Mark Jackson.

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 occasionallyy reads at spoken word events around Manchester and Liverpool"

His website is: https://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. 

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Author / Artist) Podcast features Melissa Sussens (she/her).

Melissa is a queer South African veterinarian and poet. Her work has appeared in Capsule Stories, Horse Egg Literary, Kissing Dynamite, SFWP Quarterly and Anti-Heroin Chic, among others. She was runner up for the New Contrast National Poetry Prize. By day she works as a small animal veterinarian and whenever she’s not doctoring animals, she assists in teaching Megan Falley’s Poems That Don’t Suck international online writing course. Melissa lives in Cape Town with her wife and their two dogs. Find her on Instagram @melissasussens and on Twitter @girlstillwrites.

Latest up from Spoken Label (Our Author / Poet / Artist Podcast) is a kinda bonus episode you could say before we bring her on for a full session in the Autumn is the wonderful Christina Alagaratnam.

Christina describes herself as "I'm a writer, author, playwright and podcaster. I've published my work on Amazon and work on the London theatre scene. Now, I run my own podcast called The Night Writer, creating content for the insomniacs."

In this episode we talk about the forthcoming production and performance of Christina's play for Peckham Fringe the 2nd and 3rd June 2022 called 'Playfight'. 

'Playfight' is a play where "Fifteen year old best friends Kai, TJ & Zara have been tight since, well, forever. Always together. Inseperable. But as they've grown older things have begun to change. Why did life start to get so complicated? When did the world stop seeing them as children and start demanding that they behave according to some script written in stone and carved decades before their birth? And when did the weight of that stone start to crush them - slowly and imperceptibly at first, until they could hardly breathe? 

Based on an idea by Shereener Browne and written by Christina Alagaratnam, PlayFight examines the corrosive way in which racism determines the direction young Black lives take. "

Tickets for the play can be purchased from: https://www.theatrepeckham.co.uk/show/playfight/

More about Christina can be found at: 

https://chrissysnotebook.com/

https://twitter.com/ChrissyA_92

https://www.instagram.com/xchristina.writer/

Latest Spoken Label session (Spoken Word / Poetry / Author / Artist Podcast) features the wonderful Charles Haffner.

Charles is from Florida. He describes himself as "I have a few passions, one being my love to express myself through Tanka and various other poetic forms. This passion started in my late teens when I read Edgar Allan Poe and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After a 30 year hiatus I decided to actually write poetry to cope with taking care of my terminally ill mother. That is when I really discovered my passion for Japanese poetry. I have published 3 full paperbacks, "Orchids under the stars, Four colors of my life in Cinquain and If love was a Rose", a beautiful gift to leave behind for my children, to let them understand a little more about myself."

More about Charles can be found at: 

https://www.facebook.com/Fayjai1970

https://www.instagram.com/angryhobiepoetry/

https://charlesrhaffner.my.canva.site/

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Author / Artist Podcast) is a interview with the wonderful Elisabeth Horan. Elisabeth  is a poet, mother, and small press publisher living in the wilds of Vermont. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks and collections, and the Editor-In-Chief of Animal Heart Press. Elisabeth is passionate about discovering new voices and mentoring emerging poets. She is also a fierce advocate for those impacted by mental illness. More about Elisabeth can be found at:  https://www.amazon.com/Elisabeth-Horan/e/B07QDPPMPZ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share  OR https://ehoranpoet.net/

Latest Spoken Label session features the wonderful Leonie Rowland.

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New from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Author / Artist Podcast)

features the wonderful Rosie Rayworth, originally from Sheffield, now Manchester

poet and drummer for the country / folk band Millie Milner and The Deadnames.

Pieces read out in this session include:

1. Barbies 

2. The Tree

3. Wandering Hands