Tuesday 26 March 2024

Speak Easy - April 2024 Readers


 










Enclosed is the list of readers for Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word Open Mic night) next week on Thursday 04 April 2024 at Duclicmer, Chorlton.

The evening shall begin around 7.30 pm and the following readers shall entertain you with 4-minute slots.

To go on the cancellation list – please email Andy N at aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk.

Free admission.

Readers are:


Andy N

Steve Smythe

Roy Page

Gordon Zola

David Bond

Andy Cash

Alan Griffith

Kevin Bamford

Tony Rogers

Martin CM 

Sam Tovey 

David Hardy 

Martin Elder

Josh Lonsdale

L.T. Hardy

Amanda Nicholson

Anne Delargy

Lindy Newns

Heather Skowood

Majella Whittaker 

Kate Hook  

Caitland Shaw 

Polly Riggs 



Tuesday 19 March 2024

Some good news


 









Some good news to go to bed with, Amanda Nicholson and me have both made the shortlist for this six-word short story competition.

Don't expect to win, but lovely to receive this by email just now

https://www.dougweller.net/2024-shortlist/

Sunday 17 March 2024

New Spoken Label Podcast - Lynn Walton

 


Latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Lynn Walton.

She advises is a Manchester based poet whose work moves from serious to amusing to risque. One of my favourite styles is fusing topics that don’t normally belong together.

I perform at a variety of events and venues and occasionally on Salford City Radio, and have been published in several anthologies including one by Virago Press. Recently, I published some of my work in three booklets."
All three of her collections be purchased from
www.lynnwaltonpoet.co.uk

She is also on facebook as lynn.walton.754

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Thursday 14 March 2024

New Podcast appearance - Poetry Non-Stop

 











I'm on the Poetry Podcast 'Poetry Non-Stop' today, thanks to Patrick for featuring me which I of course do sneak in a reference to my novel 'Birth'

https://soundcloud.com/user-821268013/andy-n-poetry-in-all-places



Sunday 10 March 2024

New Spoken Label Podcast - Nayma Chamchoun


 










Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan, a self-taught writer and poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos around mental health within their ancestral communities.
Nayma is an active member of London's vibrant Poetry and Spoken Word community, the international Poetry community online and has performed her work at several Poetry Open Mike events including the Grenfell 5 year Anniversary and had her work featured on West Wiltshire Radio & BBC Radio London several times.
Her published poetry collection COVID: THE WORDY WILDS OF A MIND UNDER LOCKDOWN is a cultural fusion poetry collection which explores themes of identity, duality, displacement, loss, race, feminism, culture, family, love and the search for inner peace as experienced alongside the effects of mental health, menopause, the pandemic and world events.
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Friday 8 March 2024

Speak Easy - March 2024 thank you's and how to book our April 2024 show

 











A big thank you to everybody who attended Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word open night at Dulicmer, Chorlton) last night. A great night with 20 readers and I somewhere around 54 or 55 people attending in total.

 

Special thank you to the following who read:

 

Chim Chirwa

Anne Delargy

Tony Rogers

Martin CM

Chris Platt

Cherry Eckel

Alan Griffith

Majella Whittaker

Sam Tovey

Amanda Nicholson

Gordon Zola

Marigold Lately

Andy N

Lindy Newns

Joe Tetley

Becky May

David Bond

Heather Skowood

Grant Curnow

 

We have lots of photographs to upload on the Speak Easy page on facebook to follow over the weekend and we have audio of the night to follow all being well on andyn.bandcamp.com over the weekend.

The next night in April will be Thursday 04 April 2024 and bookings for the next show will open

From Sunday 10 April 2024 by emailing Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk from midday onwards

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