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This special episode of Season 8 will air on Thursday 25th April 2024 to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
County Antrim
Anita Gracey has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, Washing Windows – Irish Women Write Poetry (1-1V), Abridged, Honest Ulsterman, The Poets’ Republic, Culture Matters, Bangor Literary Review, Sonder, Dream Well Writing and Poetry Jukebox. Anita was shortlisted for Over the Edge New Writer of the Year 2018, longlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing in 2019, shortlisted Chultúrlann Poetry Competition 2020 and special mention in Corsham Poetry Competition 2021 and honourable mention in Chultúrlann Poetry Competition 2022, longlisted for Soundwaves Competition 2023, and shortlisted for Skylight 47 Mentoring Programme 2023. The Arts Council awarded Anita with an Individual Disabled Artist (IDA) in 2020. Anita was the recipient of a Community Arts Partnership Good Relations Award in 2023. Anita in March 2024 completed Irish Writers Centre’s, Northern Soul Roadshow programme. Anita facilitates online creative writing voluntarily for Ataxia Foundation Ireland since August 2023.
County Armagh
Paddy McCurdie is a County Armagh writer, poet, aspiring novelist and screenwriter and is part of a local writing group in his hometown of Portadown. He was the recipient of a Community Arts Partnership Good Relations Award in 2023 for writing haiku and an awardee for the Irish Writers Centre Northern Soul Roadshow for 2024.
County Carlow
Derek Coyle published his first collection, Reading John Ashbery in Costa Coffee Carlow in a dual-language edition in Tranas Sweden and Carlow Ireland in April 2019, and it was shortlisted for the Shine Strong 2020 poetry award. He lectures in Carlow College/St Patrick’s, Ireland. His second collection, Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster is due in 2024. Derek Coyle has published poems in The Irish Times, Irish Pages, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Texas Literary Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Orbis, Skylight 47, Assaracus, and The Stony Thursday Book.
Follow Derek on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/derek.coyle.10
County Cavan
Fidel Hogan Walsh has written and performed her poetry to a wide audience. Her work has appeared in Poethead, Pendanic, UCD Archives, Poetry Ireland – Poetry Town Pocket Poems booklet, The Irish Times, guest poet on The Artist Room, Iontas Theatre, Monaghan. The Storms Journal and on The Eat the Storms podcast, numerous times. Fidel has three short stories and two poems in Thrice Remembered – An Anthology of Cavan Writings 2022. She was the Inaugural Winner of the Enlighten Prize with Hambly & Hambly with her poem ‘What Peace Feels Like’, and again in September 2021 with her poem ‘for you’. She has been involved in two Cross Border Peace IV Projects and written poems for both, ‘Peaceful Photography’ August 2019 Bailieborough Development Association and Dungannon & Cookstown Camera Club funded by Peace IV and SEUBP and ‘Empowering Women’, Next Chapter. Fidel’s first collection of poems, Living with Love, was launched in 2020. Her second collection of poetry in collaboration with photographer, Julie Corcoran, called Time was the fruit of a lockdown project undertaken between March and June 2020 and was launched Culture Night 2020. The fifteen poems and sixteen images reflect on the human condition during unprecedented times. Time was named in the top 10 non-fiction of 2020 by Dublin City Libraries. A limited edition of Words on Water, Fidel’s nature-inspired poems was produced for National Heritage week 2023 from Friends of Castle Lake Catchment, the perfect marriage between poetry, nature & science. Collaborations that Inspire is a series of Fidel’s poems paired with various artists. Both Fidel and the artist involved interpreting each other’s works in a collaborative brainstorming of ideas. Some of her poems have been included in group art exhibitions around the island of Ireland.
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County Clare
Deirdre Devally graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from UL in 2023. She was short-listed in Fish Short Story Prize, 2024 and Fish Poetry Prize, 2023. Other listings include Cúirt International Festival, New Writing and Highly Commended in The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition. Her work appears in literary journals and anthologies including Trumpet 12; The Stony Thursday Book; Washing Windows Too; The Honest Ulsterman and more. Deirdre has received Literature Awards from the Irish Arts Council and an ‘Artist-to-Artist’ mentorship from Glor Arts Centre, 2023.
Follow Deirdre on X at https://twitter.com/deirdredevally
County Cork
Emma Davis, is from Ballyvourney, County Cork. She has published two rhyming, children’s stories, called Three Mucky Pups, in 2019, and its sequel, Pups, Pancakes and Pandemonium, in 2022. She has exhibited poems in poetry galleries and online with Writeminds: Poetry and Wellness, between 2021 and 2023, and another was selected and exhibited for Cork City Council’s Poetry in the Park Collection, in 2022. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection.
Find out more about Emma at https://fairyfortpublicati.wixsite.com/mysite
County Derry
Mark Burns was born in Derry in 1969. He has worked as a music and arts journalist for The Derry News, Citizen magazine and the Culture NI website. He is a published poet and has performed spoken word sets at The Stendhal Arts Festival and Foyle Folk Club. He was shortlisted for the Brian Moore Short Story Award, 2008. He also presents several music shows on Drive 105FM and regularly includes poetry as part of his shows. He writes because he cannot sing.
Follow Mark on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/markburns69/
County Donegal
Rosaline Callaghan is a writer and poet, and shares her Derry home with aloof rescue cat, Beannacht – Irish for Blessing. A retired barrister, she also lives with Hereditary Amyloidosis, a rare, fatal condition originating in Donegal, for which there was no treatment until recently. Rosaline has written a book on her family’s experience of Donegal Amy: A Rare Disease from Ireland. Rosaline’s poems appear in Community Arts Partnership anthologies Heartland and Threshold, Seamus Heaney Homeplace’s Autumn Fragments, Drawn To The Light Press, February 2023, Silk Road and Derry News. Polydipsia was shortlisted in the Saolta Arts competition 2022. Commissioned for the From Bloody Sunday to Brexit project, her poem Parenthesis features on a Bogside Mural and Priest on a sculpture in the Free Derry Museum. Rosaline is 64, five feet tall, slightly round, and divides her time between penning poetry and memoir, ignoring housework, killing houseplants, and trying to cuddle the aforementioned cat.
Find out more about Rosaline at https://wildstoryteller.com/
County Down
Heather Fleming lives in Co Down. She has had poems published in the 2023 Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing Anthology, ‘Compass’, also in this years anthology, called, ‘Manifest’. Her work is in An Anthology of New Poetry, ‘In My Own Words, What If?’. Her writing was accepted by the Royal Society of Literature, for the Bonnie Greer workshop. Her stories have aired on BBC Radio Ulster, ‘Telltales’. Her visual poems were exhibited at the Belfast Book Festival (2023). Heather has received bursaries from the Irish Writers Centre. She enjoys reading her work with audiences and has been invited to read at many events.
Follow Heather on X at https://twitter.com/heather1fleming
County Dublin
Pratibha Castle, an Irish born poet living in West Sussex, is widely anthologised and published in journals and ezines including Agenda, Blue Nib, Drawn to the Light, Eat The Storms, Honest Ulsterman, Lime Square Poets, Not The Time To Be Silent and more. A Pushcart nominee, short listed in The Bridport Prize 2023, her work has additionally been highly commended and shortlisted in numerous poetry competitions including the Bray Festival, Indigo Press, Repton, King Lear Award and the Welsh Poetry Competition. Her latest pamphlet, Miniskirts in The Waste Land, a Poetry Book Society Winter Selection 2023, takes the reader on a trip through Notting Hill and India in the late 60s/early 70s. She is currently working towards a full collection.
Follow Pratibha on X at https://twitter.com/pratibhacastle
County Fermanagh
Trish Bennett is an award-winning writer from the Leitrim/Fermanagh border. Her poem, ‘Raucous Wings,’ representing County Fermanagh, was published in 2020 in North Star, an Anthology of female writers, Women Aloud NI, and previously in 2019 with Epoque Press, Ezine, Issue 6.
Find out more about Trish at https://trishbennettwriter.com/
County Galway
Barbara Dunne is a poet, short fiction writer, reviewer, painter and facilitator living in the Connemara Gaeltacht. Her poetry has been published in Drawn to the Light Press, HOWL 23: New Irish Writing, New Word Order, The Storms Journal, Crannóg, Skylight 47 and other fine journals. She was highly commended in the Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition 2024. She was short listed for the Open Window Mentoring Award in 2022, and has received bursaries from The Irish Writers Centre and The Munster Literature Centre. She is currently working on her first poetry collection.
Follow Barbara on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dunne.barbara/
County Kerry
Amano is a multidisciplinary artist based in Co. Kerry, Ireland. She is a singer, poet and songwriter working English and Irish (Gaeilge). Born in Kyūshū and raised in Kerry, her work is informed by her Irish and Japanese heritage, an animist worldview, and academic studies in religions, political science and cultural heritage. Amano’s poetry and writing has been published by Good Day Cork (2023), Channel Magazine (2023), Motley Magazine (2022, 2021), and Garland Realm (2020)
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County Kildare
Cathy Conlon is the winner of the 2023 Poetry for Patience competition (Cuirt International Festival of Literature) She won second prize in The Waterford Poetry Prize 2020 and was shortlisted for the 2023 Yeats Thoor Ballylee International Poetry Prize, the 2020 Trim Poetry Festival and the 2019 Seventh Bangor Poetry Competition. Her poems have appeared in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Books Ireland, Cuirt Journal, Ropes, Skylight 47, The Milk House, Flare, The Poets’ Republic, Poetica review, Eat the Storms podcast and forthcoming from Honest Ulsterman. She was joint winner of PENfro First Chapter Competition 2016, and has been shortlisted for the RTE P.J. O’Connor Radio Drama Awards. Her short stories have appeared in Brevity is the Soul (Liberties Press) Stories for the Ear (Kildare County Council) Boyne Berries, and in literary journals online. She lives in Celbridge, Co. Kildare.
Follow Cathy on X at https://twitter.com/cat_conlon?lang=en
County Kilkenny
Mark Roper’s latest collection, Beyond Stillness, came out in October 2022. It was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and the Julie Suk Award. Bindweed, 2017, was shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award. A Gather of Shadow, 2012, was also shortlisted for that Award and won the Michael Hartnett Award in 2014. With photographer Paddy Dwan, he has published The River Book, The Backstrand, and Comeragh and, in October 2023, Sea and Stone. Mark has written the librettos for two operas composed by the late Eric Sweeney. He was Editor of Poetry Ireland for 1999. He was awarded Arts Council Bursaries in 2010, 2013 and 2016. A book of short poems, From The Japanese Gardens, with images by the photographer Margaret O’Brien-Moran, will be published in early 2025. “Mark Roper’s trademark spare, spiritual response to the natural world is intensified in Beyond Stillness.” Martina Evans, The Irish Times. 29/10/2022.
Find out more about Mark at http://www.mark-roper.com/
County Laois
Dr Arthur Broomfield is a poet, short story writer and Beckett scholar from County Laois. His current collection is Ireland Calling. Revival Press. Arthur is poet laurate of Mountmellick.
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County Leitrim
Kevin McManus is a poet and writer from County Leitrim in Ireland. In 2021, he published a poetry collection entitled “The Hawthorn Tree” with Lapwing Publishers, Belfast. He has also had poems published in several international journals, including the London Grip, the Californian Catamaran, the Honest Ulsterman, the Fortnightly Review, the Galway Review, the Cormorant, Dreich, Impsired, the Lothlorien and An Aitiuil. In 2022 his poem “Lost Souls” was adapted into a short film and won the Blissfest film festival in Chicago. The film was also a finalist in the Cork poetry film festival and the Drumshanbo written word festival. It was also selected for the Los Angeles poetry film festival. Kevin has also published eight fiction novels, including his latest, Darkness at the edge of town, published by Book Hub. A new poetry collection entitled, A Cold Wind from the lake is currently in production.
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County Limerick
Ellen Harrold is an artist, writer, and editor-in-chief of Metachrosis Literary. She uses painting, drawing, text, and textiles to explore physics and ecology through creative abstraction. She has recently published art in The Storms Journal, An Áitiúil, and Orion. She has published poetry in English and Irish in magazines such as Shearsman, Causeway / Cabhsair, and Skylight 47. She has published her first book ‘Aesthetics and Conventions of Medical Art.’ with Boom Graduates.
Find out more about Ellen at https://ellenharrold.art/
County Longford
Anne Tully born, raised living and working in Co Longford. A teacher of English and History in Ballymahon Vocational School. Married to John Sheridan, mother to two sons and a daughter and living on a farm in picturesque North Longford. Actively involved in farming and an advocate for this hard working, land loving group. The piece is a tribute to my father, grandfathers and friends who made a living as cattle dealers travelling across the country to faraway fairs Long time member of Leinster’s longest running literary event The Goldsmith Festival, celebrating the life and works of Oliver Goldsmith. Anne is one of the hosts of the weekly #promptcombo for poets on X , this initiative was the brainchild of Catherine Ann Cullen, who was the Poet in Residence at Poetry Ireland during the turbulent days of spring and summer 2020. Always a writer, this initiative increased productivity as the prompts gave a daily or weekly focus to Anne’s writing. Her most recent piece was published in the Black Bough Winter Anthology in December 2023. She is also involved with a local drama group The Ballinalee Players and a member of Longford’s Backstage Theatre Ambassador Programme. She is grateful to be given the opportunity to represent Longford on Damien B. Donnelly’s wonderful Eat the Storms podcast
Follow Anne in X at https://twitter.com/AnneTSheridan1
County Louth
John Noonan has been Highly Commended for his collection in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2022, his work has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, and many more anthologies, literary magazines in Ireland and abroad. has just finished working on a commission from Creative Ireland entitled ‘Threading the Táin’, a visual arts/poetry project which traces the story of the ancient epic ‘Táin Bó Cuailgne. John is a Pushcart nominee – the Over the Edge Festival featured poet in 2021 and is the chosen reader for this year’s showcase Cúirt International Literary Festival Galway. He is also a past recipient of The Goldsmith International Poetry Award.
County Mayo
Isabela Basombrío Hoban is an award-winning poet. She is also a multidisciplinary artist working in music, sound and visual art. Originally from Peru and living in Ireland, she is a bilingual poet writing in both English and Spanish. Her recent books are “Nothing belongs to everyone” (Nada pertenece a todos 2022) and “Rain Love Death Poets” (Lluvia Amor Muerte Poetas 2023) both published by Ediciones Vitruvio. Her publishing houses are Ediciones Vitruvio in Madrid, Spain and Salmon Poetry in Ennistymon, Ireland. Isabela is the recipient of the 2023 Premio Nuevo Ateneo Online (New Athenaeum Online Award). The New Athenaeum Online Award recognizes the work of authors who have written an important work of great literary value and who strive to contribute to new forms of cultural diffusion to reach the reading public. The jury is composed of authors of recognized prestige. Isabela was a fellow with the “Next Generation Leadership Project” of the Rockefeller Foundation and New York University. She has received awards from the Mayo County Council Arts Section and Culture Ireland. She has a forthcoming collection of poetry which will be published in 2024.
Follow Isabela on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cloudgazer.irelandisabela/
County Meath
Anne McDonald is a spoken word poet, creative writing teacher and festival curator. Her work is centered on the challenges we face in a society that is changing rapidly and how we respond or react to those changes. Through her writing she explores themes of parenthood, aging, death, loss, inclusion and response to the human condition. She was awarded The Irish Writers Residency in Cill Rialag, Kerry and The John Hewitt residency. She has had work published in Women’s News, Hot Press, Electric Acorn, Woman’s Work Anthologies 1 & 2, The Blue Nib, The Strokestown Anthology, The Waxed Lemon, The Storms Inaugural Issue, Fragments Of Time, Blue Mondays’ Anthology 2021, 192 Magazine, Crow Name and several issues of Live Encounters Poetry & Writing. Her work has also been featured on collaborations with musicians and animators and reviewed and broadcast on RTE Radio. Anne has an M.Phil in Creative Writing. Her first collection of poetry Crow’s Books was published in 2020 and her second collection, Clothespeg in my Pocket, will be published in 2024.
Find out more about Anne at https://creativelythinkingweb.wordpress.com/writing-and-spoken-word/
County Monaghan
Ted Mc Carthy is a poet and translator living in Clones, Co. Monaghan His work has appeared in magazines in Ireland, the UK, Germany, the USA, Canada and Australia. He has had two collections published, ‘November Wedding’ (Lilliput), and ‘Some Poems’ (Moth). He is also author of a number of podcasts.
Find out more about Ted at https://tedmccarthyspoetry.weebly.com/
County Offaly
Born and raised in Offaly and now living in East Cork, Yvonne Brewer has had poetry published since 2014 .Her first poetry collection “Twigs” was released in 2018. In 2021 she had a poem selected in Poetry in The Park by Cork City Libraries and Cork City Council. She released her second collection of poetry in 2023 “The Woman who Talked to Stones. Poems of Stone and Bone.” Her poetry is influenced by nature, fairies, motherhood and the sorrows and wounds of Ireland’s past. Her books are available on Amazon.
Follow Yvonne on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/yswords
County Roscommon
Christa de Brún is a poet from Co. Roscommon. She was most recently published in the New Roscommon Anthology 2019-2023, her work has also appeared in ‘The Waxed Lemon’, ‘The Ekphrastic Review’, and ‘Drawn to the Light Press’. She was a recipient of the Artist Bursary Award 2024.Christa lectures in English Literature in SETU Waterford.
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County Sligo
Jessamine O’Connor moved to the west in 1999 so has now been there most of her life! She writes poetry mostly and is attempting fiction, winning the Dermot Healy award 2021 for her portfolio of both. She is an editor with Drunk Muse Press and their sister magazine The Poet’s Republic, and previously one of the team that founded Scrimshaw. She hosts an annual Countdown fan-festival in Monasteraden, works as an ESOL tutor, and has graduated twice from ATU Sligo. ‘Silver Spoon’ is published by Salmon Poetry, and ‘the Opposite of Grieving’ by Nine Pens Press.
Find out more about Jessamine at https://www.jessamineoconnor.com/
County Tipperary
Wini Hannigan is a poet and spoken word artist from Tipperary. She writes mostly about themes such as mental health and nature. She sees the two as so deeply connected and is equally as passionate about both. She has recently been published in the newest edition of New Word Order’s journal and hopes to release her own poetry book in the future.
Follow Wini on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/wb.creates/
County Tyrone
Marty McKenna is an independent Irish poet, born in Tyrone, now living and writing in Belfast. Marty has poems published widely in both online and print journals. He won the Matrix prize in 2017. He has published three chapbooks (silent stigma, loud leaf; gently, but a dream and sleeve notes) and is currently publishing poems that will inform his first full collection. Marty is a neurodivergent poet.
Follow Marty on X at https://twitter.com/i_twopointzero
County Waterford
Ger Duffy’s poems have appeared in PNR (UK), Poetry Ireland Review, Under the Radar (UK), Southword, the Ekphrastic Review (US), The Sailor Review, The Stony Thursday Book, The Bangor Literary Journal, The Milk House, Skylight 47, The Waxed Lemon and Drawn to the Light Press. Her poems have been anthologized in Local Wonders (Dedalus Press), #Public Sector Poetry (UK), Arlen House Press (In Washing Windows III & IV), The Weight of Motherhood (Moonstone Press) (US), The Verve Eco poetry Anthology (UK) and The Sidhe Press (Ger). She received the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Award 2024. Her poems were placed 2nd in the Goldsmiths Poetry Competition 2021, Travels with Joyce Competition 2022 and Write by the Sea Competition 2023. Her poems were highly commended in the Red Line Competition 2021 & 2022, The Francis Ledwidge Award 2022, The Allingham Award 2023, The Verve Eco Poetry Competition 2024 and The Bard of Connacht Award 2023. She was a featured reader at the Prebooked Poetry Introductions at the Cork Poetry Festival in 2022. She has received Poetry Mentoring Awards from The Munster Literature Centre in 2021 and the National Mentoring Awards in 2022. Her poem “Sundays” was voted Readers’ Choice Poem of the Year by the Milk House. She was a bursary recipient at the John Hewitt Summer School in 2023. She was a featured reader at the launch of “On Being” by Padraig O Tuama at the Southbank, London in 2023. She is a Pushcart nominee.
County Westmeath
Phil Lynch grew up in Westmeath and his poetry has appeared in a range of literary journals, anthologies, and various other media including poetry and arts shows on RTE. He has been a winner, runner-up and highly commended in poetry competitions and is a regular performer of his work at poetry and spoken word events and festivals in Ireland and further afield. Phil also hosts and organises such events from time to time. His latest poetry collection, Moving On (Salmon Poetry), is scheduled for publication on 28 April, 2024. His previous collection, In a Changing Light, also with Salmon Poetry, was published in 2016.
Follow Phil on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/philip.lynch.39
County Wexford
Originally from Bray, Co Wicklow, Grace O’Reilly now resides in Gorey, Co Wexford, Ireland. Writing various forms, poetry’s her favourite. A member of several Writing Groups, she founded ‘Pen Pals in the Pod’ in January 2024, which is a free weekly group for adult writers of all stages. Grace’s written works have been included in two anthologies entitled, ‘Fledglings’, in 2016 and ‘Taken Flight’, 2019, both collaborated with ‘The Gorey Writers Group’, and published by Boland Press, in two separate issues of ‘Wexford Women Writing Undercover’, published by Red Books Wexford, where she was part of the publishing team for one, and had her poem ‘Blessed Wells’ included in a book by Welsh author Phil Copeland in ‘Wells in Co Wexford’. An avid reader and member of Co-Operative Housing Ireland’s Book Club, called ‘The Graduates’. Grace reviews books on writing.ie regularly and has done for Children’s Books Ireland. Grace’s publications are both online and in print, in literary journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. Grace was longlisted in 2012 for ‘The RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition’ for her short story entitled, ‘It Started with a Letter’. Grace suffers with an array of health conditions including the debilitating conditions Fibromyalgia, Spinal Stenosis, Degenerative Disc Disease and others, and hopes to raise awareness of it through her writing. Recently she was on a Pod-Cast, ‘Being Brilliant’ speaking about bullying, writing and Invisible Disabilities, and Park Run Ireland have published her article about how Park Run benefits her life with Invisible Disabilities. Writing is Grace’s therapeutic remedy.
Follow Grace on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/wordweaver007
County Wicklow
Frances Browner, a creative writing tutor with Dun Laoghaire/Dublin ETB and Greystones Cancer Support, active in local arts, received Person of the Year for culture 2022. Fiction/memoirs appeared in anthologies and magazines, and broadcast on Living Word and Sunday Miscellany. Poems featured in Ogham Stone, Skylight 47, Boyne Berries, Galway Review, Pendemic, and Not the Time to be Silent. Haiku, ‘Lockdown’ won 1stprize Dun Laoghaire Local Voices, 2020, and short story ‘Little Palm Tree’ highly commended for the Costa Book Awards, 2020. Poetry collection, Roots & Wings, launched by Revival Press, 2019, and debut novel, A Bronx Summer in 2023.
Musical Guests
Phoenix and Wolfe are a musical fusion of Irish and Brazilian mystique, wonder and charm. Duo Amanda Shannon and Cairo Rocha have been writing and composing together since 2020. They released their first single ‘We’ll get used to it” in 2022 and are going back inot the studio. They are influenced by many but highlight the likes of Sinead O Connor, Clannad, Mark Knopfler, Kiko Loreiro, Garry Moore and Nina Simone as their greatest musical hero’s. Creating music that is both explorative and evocative the pair seduce their listeners from the start as they lead you into another realm, marrying provocative lyrics with sophisticated melodies and arrangements. Moving adeptly between acoustic and electric guitar, the goal is to honour messages old and new, whether in Irish , English or Portoguese!
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Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet
Damien B Donnelly is a 48-year-old Irish, adopted, queer writer and podcast producer who spent 23 years living in Paris, Amsterdam, and London working in the fashion industry, returning to Dublin at the end of 2020. He is the host and producer of the poetry podcast Eat the Storms and the editor-in-chief of The Storms, a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. His debut pamphlet, Eat the Storms, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and featured on the Poetry Book Society Winter List 2020/21, followed by a Pushcart Prize nominated Stickleback (micro collection) and In the Jitterfritz of Neon, a conversational pamphlet co-written with Eilín de Paor. His first full collection Enough! was published by Hedgehog in August 2022. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, both online and in print. His 2nd full collection Back from Away arrives on the 8th May 2024 with Turas Press
The Storms journal is available at https://eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/
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