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This episode of Season 7 aired first on Saturday 1st July 2023, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Collection of the Week

Therese Kieran

Therese Kieran is a Belfast based poet and visual artist. Her work has featured in: Dark Angels: Three Contemporary Poets, Book 1, Her Other Language, The Honest Ulsterman, Valley Press Anthology, Four X Four, Washing Windows I, 2 and 3 and many others, including Poetry Jukebox’s climate change curation in Paris & Belfast. She’s been twice long-listed for the Seamus Heaney New Writing award. She’s received two Arts Council NI awards. Recently she made the short-list for Poems for Patience and was short-listed and commended for the 22/23 Coast to Coast to Coast poetry competition. She is a member of the 26 writing collective, a professional member of the Irish Writers Centre and is vice-chair of Irish PEN.

Follow Therese on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ThereseKieran

Therese is on Instagram at @tk.ni

For all things Dark Angels head over to https://darkangelswriters.com/

Get a copy of Dark Angels at https://www.paekakarikipress.com/?content=publications.php

John Simmons

John Simmons is the co-founder of two influential writing organisations – Dark Angels and 26. His book Dark Angels inspired writers at work to take a more creative approach to writing, developing into an international programme of workshops that use techniques of poetry and storytelling. His first book We, Me, Them & It was recently republished in a 21^st anniversary edition. His published novels are Leaves, Spanish Crossings and The Good Messenger.

Follow John on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JNSim

For Dark Angels check out https://darkangelswriters.com/

Tim Rich

Tim Rich is a writer and lo-fi photographer. He is one of three poets featured in the book Dark Angels: Three Contemporary Poets (Paekakariki Press, 2023). His words and images have also appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Oscillations, Random Spectacular and arterial. His piece Landfall, featuring a poem and four photographs, was exhibited at the Bloomsbury Festival, London, and is now also a limited-edition letterpress print. Tim writes for a living and is a New York Times Bestselling ghostwriter and editor, a member of writers’ collective Dark Angels and a co-founder of writing organisation 26. He lives in Hastings, England.

Follow Tim on Twitter at https://twitter.com/timiswriting

Tim is on Instagram at @timrichphotographs

Get Dark Angels at https://paekakarikipress.com/?content=publications.php

Gary Gautier

Gary Gautier has taught university writing and literature and given numerous radio interviews. His previous poetry book, Schematics and Assemblies of the Cosmic Heart, was shortlisted for the Faulkner-Wisdom Poetry Prize, and his novels have earned a #1 Amazon bestseller rank in two categories. His latest novel, Alice, was selected for the Innovative Fiction Book Club, and a screen adaptation of his novel, Mr. Robert’s Bones, made the second round at the Austin Film Festival. Gary’s forthcoming book of poems, The Day We Met in Earthly Time, like his previous book, builds a landscape that is rich in emotion and intimacy, yet resonant with the archetypal, the eternal, the mythical. The poems in the new book rely more heavily on the local imagery of particular places, but the mood and manner of sculpting the language will be familiar to readers of Gary’s previous poetry. Gary has hitchhiked through 17 countries and 35 US states, and currently lives in the pueblos mágicos of Mexico

Follow Gary on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaryGautier1

For more information on Gary check out https://garygautier.weebly.com/

Alan Monahan

Alan Monahan is a 24-year-old poet from Trim, Ireland. He lived in Dublin for a few years before moving to Paris in 2020 to study Fine Art. There he studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts Paris for a year but dropped out and decided to leave Paris to move to Berlin, with a 5-month stint in between spent back in his native Trim.

Alan has been writing daily for several years now and has a backlog of Poetry to boot. Known and associated more so for his visual art creativities, he is expanding and exploring more in his literary pursuits, as of current, predominantly within the medium of Poetry.

Follow Alan on Instagram at @majofighuor.sangwich

John Hewitt International Summer School

Host and producer Damien B. Donnelly is one of this year’s recipients of a full bursary for the John Hewitt Summer School. For all details check out the website and get your tickets now… https://johnhewittsociety.org/summer-school/

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/

Backing music for Eat the Storms is from Purple Planet Royalty Free Music, with thanks…

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