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This episode of Season 7 aired first on Saturday 10th May 2023, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Merril D Smith

Merril D. Smith is a poet who lives in southern New Jersey. Her work has been published in poetry journals and anthologies, including Black Bough Poetry, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Storms, Fevers of the Mind, and Nightingale and Sparrow. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from Temple University and is the author/editor of numerous books on gender, sexuality, and history. Her full-length poetry collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was Black Bough Poetry’s December 2022 Book of the Month. 

Follow Merril on Twitter at https://twitter.com/merril_mds and on Instragram at mdsmithnj

Read Merril’s Monday Morning Musings and more at her blog https://merrildsmith.org/

River Ghosts in available at https://nightingaleandsparrow.com/river-ghosts-by-merril-d-smith/

Sarah Connor

Collection of the Week – The Crow Gods

Sarah Connor was brought up in South Yorkshire and now lives in North Devon. She spent her working life as a Child Psychiatrist. She has two adult children and one husband. Writing has enriched her life so much. She has been published in numerous publications, including Spelt magazine; The Storms; anthologies from Black Bough, Experiments in Literature and Sidhe Press. She is a regular writer of prompts at dVerse, and is still hanging about on Twitter. Her first chapbook, The Crow Gods, is available now from Sidhe Press

Follow Sarah on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sacosw

Find out more about Sarah at her blog https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/

The Crow Gods is available at https://sidhe-press.eu/books/the-crow-gods/

Jane Dougherty

Jane Dougherty lives and works in southwest France. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems and stories have been published in magazines and journals including Ogham Stone, the Ekphrastic Review, Black Bough Poetry, ink sweat and tears, Gleam, Nightingale & Sparrow, Green Ink and Brilliant Flash Fiction. Her poetry chapbooks, thicker than water and birds and other feathers were published in October and November 2020.

Follow Jane on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MJDougherty33

Find out more about Jane at her blog https://thefourswans.wordpress.com/ 

Siobhan Mac Mahon

Siobhan Mac Mahon (MA Creative Writing UCD) is an Irish Poet and ‘Word Witch’ whose poetry speaks of the return of the Sacred Feminine and of our deep connection to the earth.  She has been creating magic, mayhem and mischief with her words for over twenty years, collaborating with other artists to combine poetry with music, dance and with film. Twice awarded Arts Council funding for her work, she has performed her poetry widely in the UK and Ireland. Some highlights include: the Southbank Centre, London, Stanza Poetry Festival, Wicklow Arts Festival, Sirius Art Centre Cobh, The Brigid of Faughart Festival, Mountshannon Arts Festival, University of Vienna, Artemis International Festival – Spain, 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Italy. A Hennessey New Irish Writing winner, publications include: The Irish Times, Headstuff.org, Skylight 47, We’Moon and many anthologies including – Hallelujah for 50 Foot Women (Bloodaxe) and Bloody Amazing.

Follow Siobhan on Instagram at @siobhanmacmahonpoet

Sue Finch

Sue Finch’s debut collection, ‘Magnifying Glass’, was published in 2020. She loves her wife, the coast and the scent of ice-cream freezers.

Follow Sue on Twitter at https://twitter.com/soopoftheday

For more on Sue head over at https://linktr.ee/Sue_Finch

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 2^nd 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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