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The 15th episode of Season 8 will air on Saturday 25th May 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Hilary Otto
Hilary Otto is an English poet living in Barcelona. Her work has featured in Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Alchemy Spoon, Black Bough Poetry, and Popshot, among other publications. In 2022 she won the Hastings Book Festival Poetry Competition. Her first pamphlet Zoetrope was published by Hedgehog in 2023
Follow Hilary on X at https://x.com/hilaryotto
Find out more about Hilary at https://hilaryotto.com/
Derville Quigley
Derville Quigley is an Irish poet/writer from Monaghan currently living with her family in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has been writing from a young age although started submitting to publications in earnest two years ago after coming 2nd in a Surreal and Strange Poetry competition run by Litro Magazine judged by poet, Jose Hernandez Diaz. Since then she has concentrated on prose poetry. She is particularly drawn to the immediacy of the form, the way it taps into the sub-consciou, weaves a narrative and then transcends it. Derville is co-founder of a Strange Birds, a global writing community
Follow Derville on X at https://x.com/dervillequigley
Find out more about Derville at https://www.dervillequigley.net/
Jimi McDonnell
Jimi McDonnell is a writer from Tuam, Co. Galway. McDonnell’s debut collection After Them was published in 2022, an occasion marked by a full house for the launch in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway. Jimi is a graduate of the MA in Writing program at the University of Galway. In 2010, his short story Coole was awarded the Dublin City One Book Prize by Joseph O’Connor. McDonnell’s work has appeared in The Irish Literary Review, Skylight 47, Crossways Literary Magazine, The Galway Review and Queen Mob’s Teahouse. Jimi has read his work as Listowel Writers’ Week, the Strokestown Poetry Festival, Clifden Arts Festval and the Cúirt International Festival. He has completed residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the Arteles Creative Center in Finland.
Follow Jimi on Instragram at https://www.instagram.com/jimihair/
Belinda Subraman
Belinda Subraman was named State of Texas Beat Poet Laureate (2023-2025) by the National Beat Poet Foundation. Recent publications include Maintenance 17, 18, New Generation Beats, Setu, Harbinger Asylum, Voices: Dahlia’s, Gods and Mermaids. Books include Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights and Left Hand Dharma. Full Moon Midnight will be released March 2024. Belinda is also a mixed media artist. Her art has been featured in Beyond Words, Epoch, Flora Fiction, Unlikely Stories, Eclectica, North of Oxford, Raw Art Review, El Paso News, Litterateur RW, Setu, Texlandia, The Bayou Review, Red Fez, Chrysalis, Ghost City, Maintenant 16 and many others. In November 2022 she won 2nd Place in the Sun Bowl Exhibit, the longest running art show in the Southwest (since 1949). In 2020 Belinda began an online show called GAS: Poetry, Art and Music which features interviews, readings, performances and art show in a video format available free. She runs a GAS Facebook group and GAS literary journal.
Follow Belinda on X at https://x.com/BelindaSubraman
GAS https://www.youtube.com/@BelindaSubraman
GAS journal https://gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com/
Sinead Griffin
Sinéad Griffin’s poetry has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Times, The Four Faced Liar, The Poetry Bus, The Storms, Under The Radar, Channel Literary Magazine, The Waxed Lemon, Washing Windows III, The Cormorant Broadsheet, amongst others. Winner of the Adult Unpublished category of the Trócaire Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition 2021, and runner-up in the Reclaim the Vision of 2016 Competition, Pushcart nominated ’22, two chapbooks highly commended in the Fool for Poetry Prize ’22, Third in the South Dublin Libraries Poetry Prize ‘23, Cúirt Poetry Prize ‘23 longlist, Bray Literary Festival Poetry ’22 shortlist and the Fish Poetry Prize ’20 shortlist. Her poems appear in various anthologies. She was awarded an Arts Council Agility Award in 2023. Her poem ‘Mountain Spine’ is currently part of the Poetry as Commemoration Jukebox installation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Follow Sinead on X at https://x.com/SineadGrif
Find out more about Sinead at https://sgriffinpoetry.wordpress.com/
Alison Lock
Alison Lock is a writer of poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction. She has published several books and pamphlets, amongst others, Unfurling (2022), written as a response to the covid lockdowns, connecting an inner world with her love of nature. Her poetic sequence of personal transformation, Lure, was broadcast on the BBC Radio 3 ‘Between the Ears’ programme and is available on the Sounds app. Her latest collection, Thrift (Palewell Press) considers the Earth and its vanishing creatures.
Follow Alison on X at https://x.com/alilock4
Stephen Comerford
Stephen Comerford is a poet based in Gorey Co Wexford. Originally from Dublin, he performs spoken word poetry around Ireland. He has been shortlisted for the Caterpillar poetry prize and recently won an award from RedBooks/Poetry Ireland for my spoken word piece ” The Perils of Poetry”. He is a reluctant poet who has long fought against the poetic urge and lost.
Follow Stephen on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/poetrysteve/
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 was published on the 8th May 2024 with Turas Press
The Storms journal is available at https://eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/
He is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/deuxiemepeau and instagram at both @damiboy and @weshallalwayshaveparis
You can purchase his pamphlets and collections at his website https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/
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