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Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making her debut is John Clifford.

John Clifford has shared his poetry around the UK, Europe and the US, with performances in six festivals and twelve cities in the last three years - including Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2022 and New York Poetry Festival in 2023. A Mind Over Matter national slam finalist, his work has been displayed in Manchester's Northern Quarter, musically produced with Iris Lyre, and broadcast on BBC Upload. He is a co-host of the Salford based poetry and storytellers night Verbose and his first collection Tell Us What We Are was published in 2023.

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making his debut,

Rich Rubin, author the day before it rained.

Rubin's debut book 'The Day Before It Rained' is described as an eclectic collection of short stories ranging from quirky portraits to tales of LGBTQ+ relationships; plus eccentric takes on friendship, romance, and everything in between. Whether period pieces or modern day works, from the magical to the mundane, from the heart of Kansas to the Yorkshire moors or the Tunisian desert, the stories span the years, travel the globe, and explore the spectrum of emotions. The author’s characters discover love, loss, hope, and fear—in other words, the dubious joy of being human.

Rich Rubin has written fiction for decades. He also spent thirty years writing about travel and food (the best job in the world, literally), with over 1000 stories in print in such publications as Travel & Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, Saveur, The Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Out and About, and others.

More about Rich can be found on his website which is: https://www.richrubinwriter.com/

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making her return is the wonderful Eden Gruger.

Eden advises "I am Eden, autistic blogger, and author of four fiction collection, and four nonfiction guides to writing, marketing and publishing. When I am not writing my one books I am helping other people with theirs as one of a handful of Alliance of Independent Authors approved writers mentors globally."

More about Eden can be found at: edengruger.com

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Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features

making his debut, Joe Walsh.

Joe is from Edinburgh and lives in Aberdeenshire currently. He has had a variety of jobs including working as a butcher and in the bar-trade before working in Social Services. He then qualified as a Social Worker and after 25 years retired early to concentrate on writing. He has had poems published in anthologies by Seahorse Publications, Blot from The Blue Publications, Inherit the Earth Publications and Dreich Publications. He also has three slim collections of poetry, and a book of short stories published. He is working on a novel and a further collection of poetry. His short story ‘The Big Thing That’s Everywhere was showcased at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2022. He is a regular at Open Mic spoken word events in Aberdeen and Edinburgh as well as online Zoom Open Mic events based in Scotland, Ireland, England and Australia.

Joe's books include 'Oppressive Love', 'oblivion disguised', 'scunner' and

'Joe A.k.a.'

All of his books can be purchased on Amazon

Joe is on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/alexander.walsh.1042

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry) Podcast features makinghis debut, David Leo Sirois. David Leo Sirois is a Canadian-American poet published 161 times, in 27 countries. His work has been translated into 13 languages (such as Hindi, Bengali, French, Spanish, Greek, & Romanian). He hosts Spoken World Online, the Zoom arm of SpokenWord Paris. His first collection is called Humbledoves (Poems to Pigeons & Plants). He won Third Prize in Winning Writers' Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Sirois has been honored for his “admirable contribution to world literature” by The Fertile Brains, a renowned literary group in India. He teaches workshops online for The Bombay Review, as well as The Poetry Academy of Poetry Global Network. His poetry has appeared in journals such as The Bombay Review, Artemis Journal, Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, The Poetry Village, One Hand Clapping, Poetry Super Highway, & Terre à Cièl (which also publishes his translations of French poetry, & his poems in French). Sirois has been featured on countless international programs, podcasts & interviews. His poetry has been featured in films & music. He is also a singer/songwriter, radio DJ (Channel X Radio, Maine/New Brunswick/Quebec) as well as a film/TV/theater actor. He is currently submitting 5 finished manuscripts for publication, & writing several more.Humbledoves (poems to pigeons & plants): https://a.co/d/5MRB33i

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making his debut is Bethany Handley.

Bethany Handley is an award-winning writer, poet and disability activist from Monmouthshire. Named one of the UK’s ten most influential disabled people in politics, law, and media by the Shaw Trust 2024, she campaigns for disability rights and better access to nature. An ambassador for Country Living’s Access for All, Wales Coast Path, and Ramblers Cymru, her debut poetry pamphlet Cling Film was published by Seren in February 2025. She co-edited Beyond / Tu Hwnt, an anthology of Welsh Deaf and disabled writers. Her work has been featured by the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Wales, BBC Radio 4, Country Living and more.

Bethany's Website is: bethanyhandley.com

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making her debut is Kathryn Millington talking about her debut poetry collection 'Imprint'.Some thoughts said about Kathryn's collection:“It is rare to find a collection that is brave enough to place the complexities of IVF and the strange world of grief that the infertile inhabit in such direct light. Kathryn Millington’s collection Imprint does just that. This is a story of confrontation and acceptance, a journey into a world that feels niche, but is anything but. The poetry world benefits from sharing experience, it will be enriched by this collection.”Wendy Pratt‘” Kathryn’s poems move me, make me laugh, reflect on this strange business we call life and feel more hopeful about navigating a path through it. These are tender, beautifully crafted poems that work on the page and in the air. Read them, keep them with you.’Helen Mort‘”Kathryn Millington’s Imprint is a gutting account of involuntary childlessness. Adeptly bending rhyme and form, Millington conjures yearning visions of the future alongside memories that ache and sing with loss. In this compelling debut pamphlet, grief is bound in the strings of “a mobile, shot through with sunlight” and hope is a stinging barb that pierces the reader again and again.”Chris Lanyon“I am at a loss for words, because you have said them all”Benjamin ZephaniahThe collection can be bought from:https://fawnpress.co.uk/product/imprint-by-kathryn-millington/