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This episode aired on 30th January 2021 and I was joined by poets Phil Vernon, Cathy Carson, Barbara Mercer and A.R. Salandy. The links to their websites, blogs or Twitter pages are all listed below…

Phil Vernon is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/philvernon2. He is the author of A Quieter Shore published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press and Poetry after Auschwitz published by Sentinel Poetry and there is an interview with Phil and Sentinel right here…
Click to access phil-vernon-slq-monday-writer-30-november-2020.pdf
You can buy Poetry After Auschwitz here…
https://spmpublications.com/shop/poetry-after-auschwitz-phil-vernon.html
And you can read more of Phil’s poetry on this website here…
https://philvernon.net/category/poetry/
And on YouTube you can hear Phil’s Daughter, Paksie Vernon, read his poem El Tres de Mayo…

Barbara Mercer is one of the organisers of Dragonflies Spoken Word and blogs at WordPress here…
https://wordpress.com/view?site=walnuttreewriting.home.blog
You can follow her writing on Facebook here
https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraMercerWriting
And for Dragonflies SW events check them out on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DragonfliesSW

Cathy Carson is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ourweekathy73 and Cathy will perform next week at Crafty Crows on Feb 3rd 2021 from 19.00 GMT and the link is below…
https://www.facebook.com/events/1626184560905674/

AR Salandy is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/anthony64120 and is the Co-Founder/EIC of Fahmidan Journal @fahmidanjournal (twitter/instagram). Anthony has 1 published chapbook titled ‘The Great Northern Journey’ published by Lazy Adventurer Publishing available here…
https://www.lazyadventurerpublishing.com/shop/the-great-northern-journey
You can find his website here…
Here are the links to the poems Anthony read today…
Oma’ The Daily Drunk 12th July 2020
https://thedailydrunk.com/f/oma?blogcategory=Poetry
‘Stormy Weather’- Clay Literary September 13th 2020 Online
https://www.clayliterary.com/post/raven-issue-nine-09-13-2020
‘Heartland’ Anser Journal October 14th 2020 Online
https://anserjournal.org/arsalandy
‘Subjugation’- jfa Human Rights Journal October 28th 2020 Online
https://www.thejfa.com/read/subjugation
My Stickleback poetry collection is available to buy here…
My debut collection Eat the Storms is available here…
If you have questions, comments, improvements, desires to be a guest poet on the show, then please drop me an email at eatthestorms@yahoo.com
Until next time… Stay Bloody Poetic!
Damien B Donnelly
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