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  • Anna Jordan (Spoken Label, June 2020)

    Latest Spoken Label Podcast features the wonderful Anna Jordan.


    Poems read out include:

    1) Mothers Goodbye letter to a dirty face
    2) Sticky feet
    3) Tokyo, New York, My Ireland
    4) Amazonian nights

    More about Anna can be found here:

    Modwords https://www.facebook.com/modwordswaterford/Modhearts

    Modhearts Poetry Posts

    https://www.facebook.com/modartsx/

    36 min
  • Luci:d (Spoken Label, June 2020)

    Latest Spoken Label Podcast is from the excellent Luci:d .


    Luci:d is an award-winning writer and spoken word poet. Her feature sets have included The Poetry Society. Her poetry has appeared in The Social Distancing Festival, covered by BBC, The Stage, and LA Times. Her poem, Clap featured alongside contributions from celebrities Emilia Clarke and Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock in the #copingtogether campaign.

    Her work has been published in Litro, and has won the Writers Forum International short story competition. She was also one of the winners at Hammer and Tongue in October 2019.

    Instagram @lucid_spokenword
    YouTube: Luci:d Spoken Word
    www.youtube.com/channel/UCde76iCSapjlBCmO-Nr43YA/videos

    Poems read out in this session include:

    1. Clap

    2. Alright

    3. Trolled


    9 min
  • Linda Quinn (Spoken Label, November 2019)

    Latest archive session on Spoken Label dating back to November 2019 features the wonderful Linda Quinn


    Linda Quinn grew up in a caravan in West Country fields and byways. Training at East 15, she worked for 15 years as an actress in theatre, tv and film, later creating and directing performances for Manumission Club in Ibiza. Completing an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in London, her filmscripts have attracted A-lister attention. She lives and works in London, teaching Creative Writing at City Lit, Greek Street and Pikes Ibiza. She is now completing her first novel, and a series of short stories. She is a co-founder of Pikes Ibiza Literary Festival.

    More information on Linda be seen at:

    @ikanto on Instagram
    @ikanto121 on Twitter
    thewordfactory.tv/writer/linda-quinn/
    Read latest work on thewordfactory.tv/story/what-the-eyes-dont-see/
    Her agent is : Julia Silk: [email protected]

    The extract is from 'Toffee man'. 

    44 min
  • Luci​:​d (Spoken Label, June 2020)

    Latest Spoken Label Podcast is from the excellent Luci:d .


    Luci:d is an award-winning writer and spoken word poet. Her feature sets have included The Poetry Society. Her poetry has appeared in The Social Distancing Festival, covered by BBC, The Stage, and LA Times. Her poem, Clap featured alongside contributions from celebrities Emilia Clarke and Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock in the #copingtogether campaign.

    Her work has been published in Litro, and has won the Writers Forum International short story competition. She was also one of the winners at Hammer and Tongue in October 2019.

    Instagram @lucid_spokenword
    YouTube: Luci:d Spoken Word
    www.youtube.com/channel/UCde76iCSapjlBCmO-Nr43YA/videos

    10 min
  • Kathryn Crowley (Spoken Label, June 2020)

    Latest Session is from Kathryn Crowley. Kathryn is an Irish-born creative. She juggles teaching yoga with freelance writing while working towards an MA in sociology. Nature, social issues and travel inspires her. Sunshine does too, and Kathryn looks forward to emigration as soon as it is viable. In recent years her arts practice has changed. She is found with pen more often than paintbrush these days and will publish her first book of poetry in 2020. See www.Kathryn.ie


    Poems read out in this session:

    1. Breathe it in audio
    2. Live here love

    6 min
  • Stefan C Gambrell (Spoken Label, June 2020)

    Returning for Spoken Label is a old, dear friend of ours Stefan C Gambrell.


    More about Stefan be found at:

    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012988232484


    Poems read out here include: (with thanks to Amanda Steel for attending the poetry section)


    1. Free.

    2. Ode to the Sofa Surfer

    3. Evolution Baby

    37 min
  • Sophia Behal (Spoken Label, June 2020)

    Latest Spoken Label features the wonderful Sophia Behal all the way from Czech Republic.


    More about about Sophia can be found at:

    wuhanpoetry, (bit.ly)
    souphistication (tumblr)
    audiobook/wuhan 1 (kobo)

    Poems read out as part of this session include:

    1) NUCity - Lights
    2) Weapons down
    3) Taken out of #Wuhan

    33 min
  • Natalie Crick (Spoken Label, June 2020)

    Latest Spoken Label session features Natalie Crick.


    Natalie Crick, from Newcastle in the UK, has poems published or forthcoming in Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, Orbis, The Moth, Banshee, Strix, Bare Fiction, New Welsh Review and elsewhere. She is studying for an MPhil in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Her poetry has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize twice, shortlisted for The Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award 2018, commended in the 2019 Hippocrates Open Awards for Poetry and Medicine and one of her poems was a runner-up in the PBS & Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2018, judged by Carol Ann Duffy. This year one of Natalie's poems was commended in the Verve Poetry Festival Competition 2020 on the theme of diversity. She is currently a creative-practitioner-in-residence at the Wellcome Centre for Mitochondrial Research at Newcastle University.

    Some links for Natalie include:

    And there are a few links:

    www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/study/students/cricknatalie.html?fbclid=IwAR2VjsqLHykWwdaNnvEp-i6aI5FRdyW0_xith4QHmOEzmzbz3YZzWSbNDFU

    www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/womens-poetry-competition-runner-up-natalie-crick

    Twitter; natalieiswriting999
    Instragram: PoetryNatalie
    Facebook: fragmentedvoices

    Poems read out in this session include:

    1.'I See You' (published in The Manchester Review)
    2. 'Red' (published in Banshee)
    3. 'In Remembrance' (published in New Welsh Review)
    4. 'Acute Admissions Ward' (published in The Verve Anthology of Diversity Poems and commended in the Verve Poetry Festival Competition 2020)
    5. '30 Days' (published in Orbis)
    6. 'Baby's Breath' (published in The Interpreter's House.)

    25 min
  • Andy N discussing Spoken Label (June 2020)

    Back with his 200th episode (somehow), Andy N chats to Amanda Steel about the history of Spoken Label, and answers questions about the development of this Podcast, how things have changed and offers hints about the future.

    The full archive is at spokenlabel.bandcamp.com

    20 min
  • Paul McNamara (Spoken Label, June 2020)

    ** contains topics not suitable for everybody **


    Latest Poet is from the wonderful and very funny poet from Limmerick
    Paul McNamara:

    Pieces read out in this session include:

    1) Dating is hard
    2) Pauline O'Kelly (aka The Granny Poem)
    3) Quarterlife crisis

    More information about Paul can be found at:

    paulmcpoet (Twitter)
    PaulMcPoet (Facebook)

    40 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.