Latest up from Spoken Label, features the return of our friend, Jo Somerset.

Jo Somerset is based in Manchester. She completed a MA in Creative Writing in May 2020 at the University of Salford, where she received the Leanne Bridgewater Award for Innovation and Experiment. Like Isla, Jo grew up in Birmingham with an unspoken Celtic heritage. A love of the Hebrides and her experience with a blended family underlie Isla’s heartfelt

journey towards finding her origins and a new self-belief.

In this Podcast, we primarily talk about Jo's new book "Mission: Find Mum"

This book is described as "Isla and Lac's mum is missing, but has left clues, and an emergency credit card. The children travel from Birmingham to Mora, a Scottish island, camping and tracking their mum. Hampered by challenges and unsure of who to trust, can Isla and Lac succeed in their mission? What else will they find... and lose? For ages 10 and up."

The book can be bought directly from Stairwell books:

https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/mission-find-mum/

Jo Somerset can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/jo.somerset

https://x.com/josomerset

https://www.instagram.com/jo.somerset/

Latest up from Spoken Label features Toki Ward

from the band Onion Mash.

Onion Mash are a 4 piece female-fronted melodic

(mainly) hard-rock band formed in 2021, but as the name suggests, their music is a mash up- a little bit hard-rock, heavy metal elements off melodic, even a little punk with raw emotional vocals, big personalities and plenty of hooky riffs.

More details:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081500374600

(Toki's guitar page)

https://www.facebook.com/OnionMashofficial

(Onion Mash facebook)

https://www.instagram.com/onionmashband/

(Onion Mash Instagram)

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features Unspoken. Unspoken is a Tampa poet, actor, host, workshop facilitator and member of the Growhouse Collective who has performed throughout the US both professionally and competitively. A 2nd Generation American, much of Unspoken's writing deals with being Latino in the U.S. and the nature of identity. Unspoken also writes about mental health through the lens of his own experiences in the hopes that people with both internal and external struggles can relate to what he went through and feel someone can understand whatever they're going through. When he isn’t writing, Unspoken likes to plan vacations he can't afford, rewatch Scrubs a concerning number of times, and agonize about not writing. Unspoken is also working on his debut poetry collection, Unspoken Perspectives, out soon. More on Unspoken can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/anunspokenpoet/