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This episode aired first on Saturday 2nd September 2021. The guests were Koss, Wendy Allen, Helen Ivory, Margaret Royall and Barney Ashton-Bullock, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to all the guest stars…
Koss
Koss (they/them/she) is a queer writer and artist with an MFA from SAIC. She has work in or forthcoming in Diode Poetry, Five Points, Hobart, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres, Prelude, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Lumiere Review, Amethyst Review, Chiron Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rat’s Ass Review, and many others. They also have work in Best Small Fictions 2020 and Kissing Dynamite’s forthcoming Punk Anthology. Koss just won the 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Award with “My Therapist Sez” and was a finalist in Diode’s 2021 Chapbook Contest.
Koss is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Koss51209969 and Instagram at @koss_singular
You can keep up to date with Koss at her website http://koss-works.com.
Wendy Allen
Wendy Allen has had poems published in Re-Side, Atrium, Northern Gravy and Brunel Writer. Her first pamphlet The Tricolour Textbook is about to be published as a Legitimate Snack from Broken Sleep. Wendy is studying for her MA in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes.
Wendy is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/_WendyCaitlin
You can find The Tricolour Textbook at Broken Sleep Books https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/wendy-allen-the-tricolore-textbook
Margaret Royall
Margaret Royall is a poet with four published poetry books: a poetry pamphlet, Earth Magicke, (2021 Impspired Press), two poetry collections, Fording The Stream (2017, independently published), Where Flora Sings (2020, Hedgehog Press) and a memoir in prose and verse, The Road To Cleethorpes Pier (2020, Crumps Barn Studio). She has been shortlisted for several poetry prizes, won the Hedgehog Press’ collection competition (May 2020) and her collection Where Flora Sings has been nominated for the Laurel Prize. She has been widely published in journals and online, most recently Impspired, Blue Nib, Open Door, Flights ( Dragonfly) and Dreich. Margaret leads a poetry group in Nottinghamshire and is a regular performer at open mic events. She is currently writing her first novel and working on a third poetry collection.
Margaret is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RoyallMargaret and Instagram at @meggiepoet
Follow Margaret at her website https://margaretroyall.com/
She is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/margaretbrowningroyall
Helen Ivory
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection The Anatomical Venus (2019. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and teaches creative writing online for the UEA/WCN. A book of mixed media poems Hear What the Moon Told Me is published by KFS, and chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City by SurVision. She has work translated into Polish, Ukrainian and Spanish as part of the Versopolis project. Her New and Selected will appear from MadHat (US) in 2022 and she is currently working on her next collection How to Construct a Witch.
Helen is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nellivory and Instagram at @nellivory
Follow Helen on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/helen.ivory.547/
Find out more about Helen at her website is https://www.helenivory.co.uk/
Barney Ashton-Bullock
Barney Ashton-Bullock is the poet/librettist in the ‘Andy Bell is Torsten’ queer music-theatre collective whose albums and books are published through Cherry Red Records and he narrates his own verse on the Downes Braide Association albums ‘Skyscraper Souls’, ‘Live In England’ and ‘Halcyon Hymns’. He has poetry published in a wide range of cult poetry journals, in the ‘Avalanches In Poetry’ tribute anthology to Leonard Cohen, in various Dreich pamphlets, in the Pilot Press ‘Queer Anthology Of Healing’ and in the ‘Soho Nights’ anthologies published by The Society Club Press who also published his first collection ‘Schema/Stasis’ in 2017. His latest books are ‘Café Kaput!’ (Broken Sleep Books, 2020) and ‘F**kpig Zeitgeist’ and ‘Bucolicism’ both released in 2021 through Cherry Red Records mail order.
Barney can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/barney_poet
His books are available at Broken Sleep Books for Cafe Kaput https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/barney-ashton-bullock-caf%C3%A9-kaput
And check out Cherry Red Books for Bucolicism
Upcoming Events
Hedgehog Poetry Picnic at the Gloucester Poetry Festival
Join 8 poets from The Hedgehog Poetry Press on 16th October 2021 at the Gloucester Poetry Festival 2021 on this year’s the theme of Reflection
http://www.gloucesterpoetryfestival.uk/gpf-2021-hedgehog-press-16th-october-at-1400-ticketed-free-event/#more-381
Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet
Damien B Donnelly returned to Ireland in 2019 after 23 years in Paris, London and Amsterdam, working in the fashion industry as a pattern maker for various brands including Calvin Klein, & Other Stories, Pepe Jeans, Reiss and G-Star. His writing focuses on identity, fragility and connection. His interests revolve around falling over and learning how to get back up while baking delicious cakes. His work had been published in numerous journals online and in print including Black Bough Poetry, Barren Magazine, Anti Hereon Chic, Icefloe Press and The Bangor Literary Journal. His debut poetry pamphlet Eat the Storms, which was featured on the Poetry Book Society Winter List 2020/21 and his Stickleback micro collection Considering Canvases with Boys were both published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. His next collection with be a conversation pamphlet he co-wrote with fellow Irish poet Eilín de Paor called In the Jitterfritz of Neon. He is currently finishing his first full collection documenting his love affair with Paris called Enough!
He is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/deuxiemepeau and instagram at @damiboy
You can follow him and buy his Eat the Storms debut pamphlet and his Stickleback micro collection at is website https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/
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