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This episode of Season 7 aired first on Saturday 12th August 2023, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Briony Collins

Collection of the Week

Briony Collins is a widely published writer from North Wales. She won the 2016 Exeter Novel Prize, was the 2020 Runner-Up for the Danby Prize, and has two Pushcart Prize nominations. Her books Blame it on Me, All That Glisters, and The Birds, the Rabbits, the Trees are available with Broken Sleep Books. She co-authored a mini-pamphlet with Caleb Nichols called Whisper Network, which is available by request on her website. Her latest book, cactus land, is out now with Atomic Bohemian, where she is one of two Founding Directors. Briony manages her time between running Cape Magazine, working on a science fiction novel for her PhD, and lecturing at her university in English Literature and Linguistics. For fun, she is interested in horticulture and taking care of her guinea pigs!

Follow Briony on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ri_collins

Find out more about Briony via her website https://brionycollins.co.uk/

Glenn Hubbard

Glenn Hubbard now lives in Newcastle after spending 34 years in Madrid. He started writing poems in 2013 and has had over 120 published in a wide range of journals. His greatest inspiration as a poet has been the late R.F. Langley.

Isabela Basombrío Hoban

Isabela Basombrío Hoban is an award-winning poet. She is also a multidisciplinary artist working in music, sound and visual art. Originally from Peru and living in Ireland, she is a bilingual poet writing in both English and Spanish. Her recent books are “Nothing belongs to everyone” (Nada pertenece a todos 2022) and “Rain Love Death Poets” (Lluvia Amor Muerte Poetas 2023) both published by Ediciones Vitruvio. Her publishing houses are Ediciones Vitruvio in Madrid, Spain and she is also signed with Salmon Poetry in Ennistymon, Ireland for future publication. Isabela is the recipient of the 2023 Premio Nuevo Ateneo Online (New Athenaeum Online Award). The New Athenaeum Online Award recognizes the work of authors who have written an important work of great literary value and who strive to contribute to new forms of cultural diffusion to reach the reading public. The jury is composed of authors of recognized prestige. Isabela was a fellow with the “Next Generation Leadership Project” of the Rockefeller Foundation and New York University and the recipient of the Smithsonian award for museum leadership. She has received awards from the Mayo County Council Arts Section and Culture Ireland. She has another new collection of poetry which will be published in 2024.

Rain Love Death Poets” was launched in Madrid in July 2023 and it will have its Irish launch at the Ennistymon Book Festival on Saturday August 26, 2023 at 4pm.

You can buy a copy of Rain Love Death Poets https://poesiaentodo.com/p/lluvia-amor-muerte-poetas-de-isabela-basombrio-hoban

Annie Cowell

Annie Cowell grew up in a tiny fishing village in the North of England, has a degree in English Literature from Newcastle University, worked in publishing and recruitment in London for several years before becoming a teacher when her children were born. Twenty years ago she and her family moved to Cyprus where she taught English until 2021. Since then she has been writing and now has  over 40 individual poems published, is a BOTN 2022 nominee, her first chapbook Birth Mote(s) was released from Alien Buddha Press in July 2022, and was the winner of the Write Blend poetry award 2023 and her second chapbook, Splashing Pink from Hedgehog Press was published 31st July.

Follow Annie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AnnieCowell3

Find out more about Annie at her website https://www.anniecowell.com/

San Szanto

Sam Szanto lives in Durham, UK. Her collaborative, prize-winning poetry pamphlet, ‘Splashing Pink’ was published by Hedgehog Press in July 2023. In 2023, she has had poems in ‘BODY literary journal’, ‘Stark Nights’ and ‘The Lake’, and shortlisted for the Chesham Literary Prize. In previous years, she has been published in international journals including ‘The North’. She won the 2020 Charroux Poetry Prize and the Twelfth First Writer International Poetry Prize. Her short story collection, ‘If No One Speaks’, is published by Alien Buddha Press.

Follow Sam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sam_szanto

Find out more about Sam via her website samszanto.com

For more about Splashing Pink check out https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/product/splashing-pink-annie-cowell-and-sam-szanto-print-edition/

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 in Spring 2024 with Turas Press

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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