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This episode of Season 7 aired first on Saturday 17th June 2023, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

James McConachie

James McConachie is originally from the UK and has lived in North-Eastern Spain for the last 17 years. He has worked as a taxi-driver, horse-wrangler, waiter, builder, project manager and many more things besides. He has poetry published by Iambapoet and Black Bough poetry, also prose and essays for the Dark Mountain project and Pilgrim House magazine.

Follow James on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jamesmcconachi1

Listen to James on iambapoet at https://www.iambapoet.com/wave-thirteen/james-mcconachie

James is also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jaimemacabeo/

Dominic J Sweeney

Dominic J. Sweeney is an French/Irish poet from Donegal, Ireland who writes in the English and Irish language. He was most recently longlisted in the An Cúirt New Writing Prize 2023. His poetry has been published by The London Magazine, Púca Magazine, Loft Books and appears on the Eat The Storms poetry podcast. He was recently interviewed by The Donegal News for National Poetry Day in Ireland. He enjoys a simple life working in a Greek restaurant and learning the language.

Follow Dominic on Twitter at https://twitter.com/chinesenecklace

Follow Dominic on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/chinesenecklace/?hl=en

Marianne Tefft

Marianne Tefft is a poet and voiceover reader who daylights as a Montessori teacher in the Dutch Caribbean. Her poems have appeared in print and online in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India, Serbia, the Dominican Republic and Sint Maarten. She is the author of two 2022 poetry collections inspired by love and tropical moonlight, Full Moon Fire: Spoken Songs of Love and Moonchild: Poems for Moon Lovers.

Follow Marianne on Twitter at https://www.instagram.com/mariannetefft/

Find out more about Marianne at https://linktr.ee/mariannetefft

Niamh Donnellan

Niamh Donnellan is a poet and writer from Meath. She is currently seeking a publisher for her first collection. Much of her poetry is rooted in the everyday, particularly the entanglement of new motherhood and grief at the death of her father. The poem Miserable Morning was commended in the Francis Ledwidge International Poetry Award 2021. She was shortlisted in the Cathalbui Poetry Competition and longlisted for the Allingham Poetry Prize and Bournemouth Writing Prize in 2022. Her work will appear in future issues of Postbox and the Honest Ulsterman. She won the Anthology Short Story Award 2020. She is supported by the Arts Council Agility Award and the Meath County Council Professional Artist Development Fund.

Follow Niamh on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/niamhdonnellanwrites/

For more information on Niamh check out https://linktr.ee/Niamhdonnellanwrites

Paul Brookes

Collection of the Week

Paul Brookes is a shop asst. Lives in a cat house full of teddy bears. First play performed at The Gulbenkian Theatre, Hull. His poetry has featured on BBC Radio Three, the Verb, and on BBC Radio Sheffield. Seven of his Wombwell Cemetery Sonnets featured in an exhibition at Barnsley Cooper Art Gallery. His chapbooks include, local history poetry in The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993). Accepted notions turned upside down poetry in A World Where and, short stories in verse in She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018), Sci-Fi poetry in The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Shopworker poetry in Please Take Change (http://Cyberwit.net, 2018),poetry about neighbours in As Folk Over Yonder ( Afterworld Books, 2019). A poetry collaboration with artworker and publisher Jane Cornwell: “Wonderland in Alice, plus other ways of seeing”, (JCStudio Press, 2021), As Folktaleteller , (Impspired, 2022), These Random Acts of Wildness, Glass Head Press, 2023, and Othernesses, JCStudio Press, 2023, completing a loose sonnets mostly, quartet.

Follow Paul on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PaulDragonwolf1

For all things Wombwell Review check out https://thewombwellrainbow.com/

Othernesses is available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BST7T59N/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

Hibsen

Hibsen are an Irish contemporary folk music ensemble formed by folk artists Gráinne Hunt and Jim Murphy. They released their debut album ‘The Stern Task of Living’ on 26th May 2023. The album was inspired by the book of short stories ‘Dubliners’ by James Joyce. Each of the 15 songs on the album is named after the short story on which it is based.

Find Hibsen on Bandcamp at https://hibsen.bandcamp.com/album/the-stern-task-of-living

Fro all things HIbsen check out https://linktr.ee/hibsen

FInd Hibsen on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/hibsenmusic/

Read an interview with Hibsen in Culturehead https://www.culturehead.com/post/james-joyce-s-dubliners-has-been-interpreted-in-song-by-irish-folk-music-act-hibsen

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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