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This final episode of Season 7 aired first on Saturday 3rd May 2023, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Tim Relf
Tim Relf is a poet, novelist and journalist from Leicestershire in England. His poetry has appeared in The Spectator, Acumen, Bad Lilies, The Rialto, Stand, The Frogmore Papers, Poetry Salzburg, Wild Court, One Hand Clapping, The Friday Poem, The Alchemy Spoon and Spelt. He came second in the 2021 McLellan International Poetry Prize, was runner-up in the Prole Poet Laureate Competition 2022 and has had work published in various anthologies. He is an alumnus of Faber’s Advanced Poetry Academy, and was awarded a place on Writing East Midlands’ mentoring scheme under the tutelage of Helen Mort. He is 2023 poet-in-residence at Leicester Botanic Garden.
Follow Tim on Twitter at https://twitter.com/timrelf
Read Tim’s 2021 McLellan International Poetry Prize poem here https://wildcourt.co.uk/new-work/flat-a-poem-by-tim-relf/
Terri Metcalfe
Cumbria born Terri Metcalfe has worked in many guises, from TV producer to customer service representative, but credits moving to the west of Ireland as the creative catalyst for returning to her twin first loves of gardening and poetry. Since beginning to submit to journals in March 2022, she has been published in places such as Abridged, A New Ulster, Green Ink Poetry, Skylight 47, Crowstep Journal and The Poetry Cooperative’s Fearless anthology, as well as being shortlisted for the Open Window mentorship programme and appearing as a guest on the Eat the Storms poetry podcast. Terri was invited by the late Kevin Higgins to read as a featured poet for the 20th anniversary of Over the Edge last January in Galway city library to much praise. Terri has spent several decades in recovery from mental and physical illness, which she draws from in her work and as such she hopes to inspire others to use the arts as a tool for positive mental health. She is currently working towards a debut collection.
Follow Terri on Twitter at https://twitter.com/terrismetcalfe
Matt Gilbert
Collection of the Week – Street Sailing
Matt Gilbert is a freelance copywriter, who also blogs about place, books and other distractions at richlyevocative.net. Originally from Bristol, he currently gets his fill of urban hills in South East London. He has also had poems published by Anthropocene, Atrium and The Storms among others. His debut collection ‘Street Sailing’ published by Black Bough Poetry is now available.
Follow Matt on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RichlyEvocative
Street Sailing is available at https://www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert
Alex Scott
Alex Scott is a Northern Irish person living in London. He has a background in fine art, art history and political economy. He’s a hitchhiker and a hopeless romantic. His writing is infused with a sense of the dark, dreamy and eerie – yet preoccupied with love. His work has previously been published in the Bosphorus Review of Books, based in Istanbul, where he lived during the pandemic.
Follow Alex on Instagram at @alex.scott.d.drive
Hiram Larew
Hiram Larew’s poems have appeared pretty widely, recently in places like Poetry South, The Iowa Review, Honest Ulsterman, Amsterdam Quarterly, Contemporary American Voices and Best Poetry Online. His most recent collection, Patchy Ways, was just released by CyberWit Press. And, as the Founder of Poetry X Hunger, he’s bringing the world of poets and their poetry to the anti-hunger cause. He also formed the collective, Voices of Woodlawn, which uses poetry, art and music to tell the story of America’s tragic history — and its ongoing legacy — of slavery at plantations.
Follow Hiram on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HiramGLarew
Watch a 2+ minute video of one of Hiram’s poems translated into American Sign Language here Eric Epstein’s American Sign Language Interpretation of Larew’s Poem, “Magic” – YouTube
Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet
Damien B Donnelly is a 47-year-old Irish, adopted, gay writer and podcast producer who spent 23 years living in Paris, Amsterdam, and London forking in the fashion industry, returning to Dublin at the end of 2019. 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 is due out on 2024.
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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