Latest from Spoken Label is Austin based American Folk Singer Tom Ovans.

Latest session from Spoken Label is the wonderful Fin Hall, Host of Like A Blot From The Blue’ 

and the Curator of Joined Up Writing.

Poems read:

1. Like a blot from a blue

2. Closed Captions English Standard

3. The Anguish of one

More about Finn can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/fin.hall.14 (Facebook) 

https://www.facebook.com/Finhall2 (Like a blot from the blue - writing page on Facebook)

https://www.instagram.com/fin.hall.14/ (Instagram)

Latest Spoken Label Podcast featuring comic / comic poet originally from Bolton now Morecombe based, Rich Davenport. 

Rich has being described as: 

“Funny.” – Hovis Presley, describing Rich’s comedy to Badly Drawn Boy’s sister (long story).  

“Rich Davenport is a brilliant comedian. Genuinely bringing something different to the table and is always a big hit with audiences”. - Lee Martin, Director, Gag Reflex Comedy Agency  

“Rich Davenport is a terrific performer whose enthusiasm and innate likability shine through. He also has a pleasingly madcap eye on the world and a gift for taking apparently innocuous words - like poultice - and making them extremely funny.” – Toby Hadoke, Comedian, host with the most at XS Malarkey, Manchester  

Rich Davenport is a comedy poet, stand-up comedian and musician from exotic Bolton, in the UK. Inspired by Spike Milligan, Ogden Nash, Billy Connolly, John Cooper-Clarke, Robin Williams, Benjamin Zephanaiah, Victoria Wood, Lenny Henry, and by his friend and fellow Boltonian, the late Hovis Presley, Rich has gigged all over the UK, spreading mirth and making loud noises. No, he’s never heard of him either. Rich was described in one review as a “no-nonsense Northerner,” which is ridiculous, because nonsense is his business, and business is good.   Rich was first encouraged to compile a book of his poems of extreme gormlessness by Hovis Presley. After accidentally winning a couple of poetry slams, other encouraging individuals said the same thing. And now, finally,  Rich's first book, GORMLESS is available now from Chinbeard books at the link below with fabulous illustrations from the marvellous Minty B. A percentage from every book will be donated to the ME Association  https://www.chinbeardbooks.com/apps/webstore/products/show/8155538  Winner - Best Local Comedy, Morecambe Fringe Festival 2020  

Poems read out include:  1. The Ballad of Bloody Nora 2. its rough and roughage 3. seven shades 4. fast poo haiku 5. Stripey Elf

New from Spoken Label is the wonderful Chris Chilton, the author of How to count trees and other poems.

Chris can be contacted via email: [email protected]

OR

via Bolton Socialist Club website (use contact menu)

OR  

Facebook, Instagram (chilton7714)

The book is available on amazon at:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08B39MQTM?pf_rd_r=K1P141VG3VKMVB89CG3G&pf_rd_p=b1f0fb82-34c4-4290-8c13-535fb29d84d5&pd_rd_r=f71adade-53c9-4d8b-920b-18ef2dbd6f89&pd_rd_w=zQp1n&pd_rd_wg=t9Cfc&ref_=pd_gw_unk

Poems read out in this session include: 

1. How to count trees 

2. Silver Birch 

3. Willows 

4.  Rowan 

5. Blackthorn

Back in the house, Spoken Label has a new session with singer songwriter, Katy Rose Bennett. 

Katy is described as "Katy Rose Bennett has been writing and performing her idiosyncratic brand of Americana-tinged folk for over 20 years. October 2020 sees the release of her 6th solo album: ‘Where Does It Hurt? An Introduction to Katy Rose Bennett’.

“Gentle acoustics from the Nick Drake school… literate songs which ride youth’s emotional rollercoaster… strikingly original.” UNCUT

“Sophisticated mix of folk, jazz, pop and rustica.” Independent"

More about Katy can be found on her website at:

katyrosebennett.com

Songs played in this session include:

1. Cold November Day

2. Where does it hurt?

Latest Spoken Label chat is with the lovely Liza Miles.

Liza Miles is the author of 'Love Bites'. 'Love Bites' is described  as 'If you enjoy slice of life stories with a touch of Bridget Jones Diary, Love Bites is the perfect guilt free treat. Seven short stories about relationships that bite. Relationships between men and women, friends, families and women and women. The protagonists are from different ages, and places, but they have one thing in common, love. In Grace, we meet the protagonist starting life over. Grace ponders what she learned about her past and how she will choose to move forward. In All Change and Mind the Gap, Polly Brisbane a sixty year old single mother, who has been celibate for twenty years, survived breast cancer and the menopause, takes a lover. In Fresh Compost, when Greta chooses Oscar, the shy professional architect has no idea how the trauma leaving Germany at the age of four has affected her.In, A Moment in Time, the reader is invited into a relationship between Pam and Geoffrey. Pam is an older woman who takes a younger lover after they have both been widowed. The Herbalists, explores the love between two women, Maggie and Jo, a gift shop owner whose same sex relationship in a small village brings them under the evil eye of an evangelical priest. In Neighbours, a famous foodie, Mike and a wannabe Burlesque dancer, Anna, have a fling. Their affair sets the stage for personal change and recognition of his “sins” in the foodie. In the final story, Sweet Dreams, we meet Harry who had just lost his beloved wife Brenda,'

In this chat, we chat about the above and also Lisa's work on Television on Harry Secombe's Highway including a story about Prince Phillip which has to be heard to be believed and her work as a indie Television documentary worker and her work as a Family Mediator and Family Support Worker.

As a foot-note, the publisher that Liza refers to in this interview but was unable to announce at the time was revealed since as Scaramouche Press.

Her Amazon page is (Uk) Liza-Miles/e/B08F3MHHKQ?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lizamileswriter/

Scaramouche Press can be found at: 

https://www.facebook.com/scaramouchepressscotland

Liza has also published a christmas story at her website which can be found at:

https://lizamileswriter.wixsite.com/mysite/post/november-25th-2020

Piece read at the end of the session:

1. Fresh Compo (Extract)

Latest up from Spoken Label is a regular at my co-run Literature Open Mic night Speak Easy, the wonderful Mike Booth.

Latest Spoken Label Podcast is from the lovely Libby Taylor.

Libby L. Taylor is described as is a globally published poet and writer. She is originally from Leicestershire, England, but has spent most of her life living in the north of England in Sheffield. 

She is currently an undergraduate student studying English Literature and Creative Writing at university.

Her work has featured in a wide range of literary journals across the world such as, Vaughan Street Doubles, Yellow Paint Magazine, Pendemic, Eris & Eros review and Flare Literary Journal

She works as a news journalist for the award-winning newspaper, The Linc, as well as working as a fiction editor for The Lincoln Review. 

Her first poetry chapbook is Ethereality.

Her website is: https://libbyltaylor.wixsite.com/libbyltaylor

Poems read out in this session include:

1. Ethereality

2. The Old man and his memories

3. A Ghost of Me 

Latest Spoken Label session features the lovely Lily Massey author of 'Work in Progress'.  

'Work in Progress' as can be seen on her Amazon page is the debut collection by former Staffordshire Young Poet Laureate from 2018 to 2019, Lily Massey.   

Lily Massey began writing poetry at the age of fourteen as a hobby, and has loved it ever since achieving the Young Laureate position for Staffordshire enabled her to really develop her craft and become a part of the poetry scene and community that spans across the county and further afield. Her poems are of many forms, genres, and lengths, but Lily lets her emotion diffuse into her words, and performing is when she feels they come alive.  

You can find Lily's book on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Work-Progress-Lily-Massey/dp/1916369510/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Lily+Massey+work+in+progress&qid=1607551284&quartzVehicle=4015-1880&replacementKeywords=lily+massey+in+progress&sr=8-1  

Poems read out in this session include:  

1. Mask 

2. The stars that try  

3. Addiction  

4. Empty Frames 

5. Seeing her

** Contains adult topics and language not suitable for all **

Sarah Jane is a female poet nurturing an intimate relationship with herself, expressing through a deep connection with the sacred feminine and guiding other female identities in the process. 

She is currently working on her debut poetry book on the themes of magick and myth, death and loss, healing, erotica, romance.

She is also the co-founder of  Creation:Poetry in Sheffield, an inclusive poetry community, featuring rising poets, 

and offering creative writing workshops.

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