Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features making his debut is the wonderful Jack Henry.

Jack Henry is a Wizard Skater and a Poet from Manchester. He writes emotionally driven stories that are about attempting to understand the ‘grey areas’ in life.

His Skating is very artistic, as a method of expressing himself. He got into Wizard Skating because it allows him to combine multiple disciplines of inline skating into one.

https://www.instagram.com/jackdoespoetry/

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Latest Bonus episode from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features making her long overdue return is the wonderful Lauren Temple talking about an exciting new writing
workshop she is running in Altrincham at Altrincham Town Hall via Oyez Arts.
Lauren Temple (she/her) is a poet, performer, workshop facilitator and events producer from Manchester.
She is a member of the poetry and performance collective Young Identity, producer of variety night Shenaigans at the Shed, runs monthly collage workshop at the Cosy Collage Club, and a fortnightly Poetry Club at Oyez Arts.
Seeing herself primarily as a storyteller, Lauren often uses a narrative style that weaves fantasy with mundanity to examine our contemporary life.
Lauren's work often focuses on queerness, feminism and mental health. Her workshops often involve playfulness, mixed media and mindfulness.
Lauren has worked with organisations such as Manchester International Festival, Apples and Snakes, HOME theatre, and Manchester City of Literature.
https://www.instagram.com/laurentemplepoet/

Latest up from Spoken Label features making her debut, the wonderful Anna Maria Stępień

Anna was born in Tarnobrzeg (Poland, present Podkarpackie Region). An economist and an English philologist. In 2020, she graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she studied specialized translation, for her post graduation. For over seventeen years, a teacher of English and also a translator; she loves her profession. Once, an accountant working for an international company. Now, an editor and an editorial secretary in World Taifas Literary Magazine (Romania), and also one of the coordinators of the Teerandaz International Festival of Poetry and Fiction (Dhaka, Bangladesh). Anna Maria writes poems, short stories, memoirs and anecdotes, both in Polish and in English. Acclaimed worldwide in artistic circles; her poems have been translated into other languages.