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This episode of Season 7 aired first on Saturday 24th June 2023 to celebrate Pride Month, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Simon Maddrell
Simon Maddrell is a queer Manx poet living in Brighton and Hove. He has been published in sixteen anthologies and numerous publications, including Poetry Wales, The Moth, The Rialto, Ambit, Butcher’s Dog, and Stand. Simon’s debut pamphlet, Throatbone, was published by UnCollected Press in 2020. His second, Queerfella, jointly won The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition 2020. Nine Pens Press published the anthologies All About Our Mothers in 2022 and All About Our Fathers in 2023 – a three-poet collaboration with Simon Maddrell, Vasiliki Albedo and Mary Mulholland. Simon’s 2023 pamphlets are Isle of Sin, published by Polari Press and The Whole Island, published by Valley Press.
Follow Simon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/QueerManxPoet
For more about Simon and his books check out https://linkbio.co/simonmaddrell
Barney Ashton-Bullock
Barney Ashton-Bullock is the poet in the hybrid music/poetry/pop projects ‘Andy Bell is Torsten’ and the ‘Downes Braide Association’ and is widely published in cult poetry journals – Travesties, Queerlings, Ice Floe, Poetry Bus, the ‘Avalanches In Poetry’ Leonard Cohen tribute anthologies, various themed Dreich pamphlets, Pilot Press’s ‘Queer Anthology Of Healing’ and Broken Sleep’s Aphex Twin anthology. Recent pamphlets and collections include ‘Café Kaput!’ (Broken Sleep, 2020), ‘F**kpig Zeitgeist!’ and ‘Bucolicism’ (both Cherry Red, 2021), ’Geopoliticus, Pupsy!’ (Red Ceilings Press, 2022), ’Cul-de-Sacrilege!’ (Polari Press, 2022) and the forthcoming ‘Beau, Beau Sadisto!’ (Back Room Poetry, 2023).
Follow Barney on Twitter at https://twitter.com/barney_poet
Cul-de-Sacriledge is available at https://polari.press/shop/books/poetry/cul-de-sacrilege/
Chris Tse
Chris Tse is New Zealand’s Poet Laureate for 2022-24. He is the author of three poetry collections published by Auckland University Press: How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes (winner of the 2016 Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry), HE’S SO MASC, and Super Model Minority (longlisted for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and shortlisted for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry). He and Emma Barnes edited Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (AUP, 2021).
Follow Chris at https://twitter.com/chrisjtse
For more about Chris check out https://christse.co.nz/
Derek Coyle
Derek Coyle published his first collection, Reading John Ashbery in Costa Coffee Carlow in a dual-language edition in Tranas Sweden and Carlow Ireland in April 2019, and it was shortlisted for the Shine Strong 2020 poetry award. He lectures in Carlow College/St Patrick’s, Ireland. His second collection, Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster is due in the summer of 2023. Derek Coyle has published poems in The Irish Times, Irish Pages, The Texas Literary Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Orbis, Skylight 47, Assaracus, and The Stony Thursday Book.
Follow Derek on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/derekcoylepoetry/
Elizabeth Gade
Elizabeth Gade is a rural Minnesota based bisexual poet and human trafficking survivor. Writing is her radical way to connect with fellow survivors. Her poems have been published in View Magazine, The Elevation Review, 300 Days Of Sun, Other Worldly Women Press, Sober Girls Yoga Magazine, Exist Otherwise & more. Elizabeth created LEO Literary Journal, an online journal dedicated to women writers affected by incarceration, addiction and/or domestic violence. http://www.LeoLiteraryJournal.Weebly.com She is also the creator and host of Survived To Write, a survivor led writing circle on Zoom for human trafficking survivors.
Follow Elizabeth on Instagram @ElizabethGadeThePoet and @SurvivedToWrite
For more about Leo Literary Journal go to https://leoliteraryjournal.weebly.com/
Emma Clowsley
Emma Clowsley is a writer, performance poet, and host. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, was published by Flight of the Dragonfly in May, with poet and stand-up comic Elvis McGonagall performing at the launch. Emma’s poems focus on lesbian stereotypes, love, lust, and friendships. She’s known for raunchy. Emma has performed at Brighton Fringe, L Fest and most recently Out and Wild Festival. She is also appearing at Ledbury Poetry Festival as both a host and poet. Emma is co-founder and host of Diversion @ Ledbury Poetry, a spoken word evening showcasing emerging talent next to established poets.
Emma is on Instagram @emmacpoetry
Her pamphlet is available from Dragonfly at https://flightofthedragonfly.com/shop/
Faith Joanne
Faith Joanne is from North Wales, but now lives in Hampshire. She enjoys the outdoors, growing her own veg, reading, films, and socialising with friends. She works as a children and young person’s counsellor, in schools and private practice. She has been writing for 18 years, mainly poetry, but also fiction and articles, some of which have been published. In the last few years, she has had a few poems published in the online journal, Flights, and in their anthology publication, Take Flight. She started performing her own poetry 7 years ago, at Incite, a LGBT+ event, and has since performed at Polari, Moving Voices and regularly with Dragonflies since 2019. She will be publishing her first pamphlet this year, the subject matter being mental health, self-harm, suicide, death, and loss. These are close to her heart, as they are from her own experience, and losing loved ones to suicide. She hopes these poems will resonate and make others feel less alone in their similar experiences.
Follow Faith on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/faith.joanne.3
JP Seabright
Pride Poet of the Week
JP Seabright is a queer disabled writer living in London. They have three solo pamphlets published: Fragments from Before the Fall (Beir Bua Press, 2021); No Holds Barred (Lupercalia Press, 2022); Traum/A (fifthwheelpress, 2023) and the collaborative works: GenderFux (Nine Pens Press, 2022) and MACHINATIONS (Trickhouse Press, 2022).
Follow JP on Twitter at https://twitter.com/errormessage
Links for JP…
Jude Marr
Jude Marr (he, they) is a Pushcart-nominated poet. Jude’s full-length collection, We Know Each Other By Our Wounds, came out from Animal Heart Press in 2020, and his work has appeared in many magazines in the US, the UK, and beyond. After ten years of living, learning, and teaching in the US, Jude is now back in England, working as a freelance editor and writing coach, and putting together a new collection.
Follow Jude on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JudeMarr1
For all things Jude check out https://judemarr.com/
MANNY
MANNY is a performer and writer from London who graduated from Roehampton University with a degree in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. He likes to work on projects, collaborate with people and more. He loves to explore all different topics and themes in his poetry. He has two poetry projects out online called Beauty Within The Cracks and ART IS MY SUPERPOWER. He is currently working on his third poetry project.
Follow MANNY at Instagram at Manny_harmony11 & manny_the_creator_11
https://emmanuelcarriere17.wixsite.com/bethechange-creative
Rachel Handley
Rachel Handley is a poet, science fiction author, and an academic philosopher based in Dublin, Ireland. Their poetry has been published by Poetry Ireland, The Liminal Review, Arlen House, and The Storms, among others. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, longlisted for the BSFA Best Short Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the South Dublin Libraries Poetry Competition. Their debut short story collection, Possible Worlds and Other Stories, was published by Ellipsis Imprints in 2022.
Follow Rachel on Twitter at https://twitter.com/_RachelHandley
Find out more about Rachel https://rachelhandleywriting.wordpress.com/
Sue Finch
Sue Finch’s debut collection, ‘Magnifying Glass’, was published in 2020. Her work has also appeared in a number of online magazines. She loves the coast, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. You can often find her on Twitter @soopoftheday. ‘Museum of a Life’ was originally published in ‘Queer Writing for a Brave New World’ by Out on the Page.
Follow Sue on Twitter on https://twitter.com/soopoftheday
For all things Sue check out https://linktr.ee/Sue_Finch
Visit Sue’s YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdPS21ilEZ1rrlnF_rkJV7w
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 aGreek 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
Mark Ward
Mark Ward is the author of the chapbooks, Circumference (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020), Hike (Bear Creek Press, 2022), the online Choose Your Own Adventure sonnet, Faultlines (Voidspace, 2022) and a full-length collection, Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023). His poems have been featured in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Boyne Berries, Skylight47, The Honest Ulsterman, Assaracus, Tincture, Cordite, Softblow and many more, as well as anthologies, the most recent of which is Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry. He was Highly Commended in the 2019 Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award and in 2020 he was shortlisted for the Cúirt New Writing Prize and selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions series. In 2021, he was awarded a Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. He has recorded poems for RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena and The Poetry Programme, Lyric FM’s Poetry File and the podcast Words Lightly Spoken. He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry, now in its sixth year.
Follow Mark on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dogwithoutlegs
For all things Mark check out https://linktr.ee/markwardpoet
Impossible Archetype is at https://impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/
David Hanlon
David Hanlon is a poet from Cardiff, Wales. He is a Best of the Net nominee. You can find his work online in over 60 magazines, including Rust & Moth, ONE ART & Homology Lit. His first chapbook Spectrum of Flight is available for purchase now at Animal Heart Press.
Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/DavidHanlon13
Follow David on Instagram @welshpoetd
Get your copy of Spectrum of Flight at https://animalheartpress.net/spectrum-of-flight/
Ryan Norman
Ryan Norman (he/him) is a queer writer from New York living in the Hudson Valley. Ryan enjoys swimming in mountain lakes and climbing tall things. He is a contributing editor of creative nonfiction with Barren Magazine. His work has appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Black Bough Poetry, HAD, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. He has two chapbooks I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A BOND GIRL (Daily Drunk Press) and CICADA SONG (Finishing Line Press).
Ryan is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RyanMGNorman
For all things Ryan check out https://www.ryanmgnorman.com/
Ryan Gibbs
Ryan Gibbs lives in London, Canada. His poetry has appeared in The Storms (Ireland), Christmas/Winter Volume 2 (Wales), Travels & Tribulations (England), Short Circuit (France), The Wild Word (Germany), Literature for the People (Malta), Haiku Pond (Thailand), Words Gathered (Canada), and Last Leaves (United States). His children’s poetry was included in the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness.
Follow Ryan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RyanGibbsWriter
For all things Ryan check out https://linktr.ee/RyanGibbsWriter
Charles K Carter
Charles K. Carter (they/he) is a queer poet and educator from Iowa who currently lives in Oregon. They share their home with their artist husband and their spoiled pets. He enjoys film, yoga, and live music. Melissa Etheridge is his ultimate obsession. Carter has an MA in creative writing with a poetry concentration from Southern New Hampshire University and an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. They are a volunteer video curator for Button Poetry. His poems have been featured in several literary journals and anthologies. Carter is the author of several chapbooks including Salem Revisited from WordTech Editions. Their debut full-length collection, Read My Lips, was released in 2022 by David Robert Books. To coincide with the release of his most recent chapbook, Artificial Sweetness (Finishing Line Press), Carter created the video podcast series #SundaySweetChats, which can be found on YouTube. Kelsay Books will release his second full-length, If the World Were a Quilt, in late 2023.
Follow Charles on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CKCpoetry
For all things Charles check out https://linktr.ee/CharlesKCarter
For Sunday Sweet Chats go to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3mtHj_9lsbAzrb-w3Y4PJkpjH4qUUuJ
Robert Frede Kenter
Robert Frede Kenter is a widely published writer, editor, visual artist, pushcart nominee and publisher of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net). Studied at Antioch College, lived NYC & worked in experimental theatre for many years, currently based in Canada, living with MECFS. A visual poetry collection, EDEN (2021, Floodlight Editions) is now available at Rare Swan Press (Switzerland, www.rareswanpress.com). Robert has work in the anthology The Book of Penteract (Penteract Press, 2022), and forthcoming in Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023); also, the Pain Scale Project (Olney Books) and a new anthology from SÍDHE Press, Glisk and Glimmer shall manifest soon. Recently in journals, on-line and in print: Olney, The Storms, Visual Verse, Fevers of the Mind, Watch Your Step, Anti-Heroin Chic, Wombwell Rainbow, Street Cake Magazine, Acropolis Journal, scissors and spackle, and many others.
Follow Robert on Twitter at https://twitter.com/frede_kenter
Gone was first published here Poetry by Robert Frede Kenter – Anti-Heroin Chic (weebly.com)
For all things Ice Floe Press check out https://icefloepress.net/
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/
Damien 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/
Backing music for Eat the Storms is from Purple Planet Royalty Free Music, with thanks…
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