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This episode of Season 7 aired first on Saturday 19th August 2023, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Simon Maddrell

Collection of the Week

Simon Maddrell is a queer Manx writer, editor and performer living in Brighton & Hove. Simon is  published in sixteen anthologies and numerous publications including AMBIT, Butcher’s Dog, The Moth, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Stand, Under the Radar.

Simon’s pamphlets: Throatbone, UnCollected Press, 2020; Queerfella, which jointly-won The Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition, 2020; Isle of Sin, Polari Press, March 2023; The Whole Island, Valley Press, July 2023.

Facebook Page:           @SimonMaddrellPoetry
Facebook Personal:    @SimonMaddrell
Instagram:                     @simonmaddrell  
Threads:                        @simonmaddrell
Twitter: https://twitter.com/QueerManxPoet
LinkedIn:                        @simonmaddrell
SoundCloud:                 @simonmaddrell
YouTube:                        @simonmaddrell

Buy Books: https://simonmaddrell.sumupstore.com/

Lizz Murphy

Lizz Murphy was born in Belfast but lives in Australia. She writes between Binalong NSW and Canberra ACT, in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry, often incorporating found text. It is sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing. Lizz has published fourteen books. Her ninth poetry title The Wear of My Face (Spinifex Press, September 2021) won the ACT Writers’ ACT Notable Award for Poetry (Big Press) 2021. Spinifex Press also published Two Lips Went Shopping (2000) and her popular international anthology Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (1996, 2000). Other titles include: Shebird and Six Hundred Dollars (PressPress), Walk the Wildly (Picaro/Ginninderra) and Stop Your Cryin (Island). Visual art, her first passion, has returned in more recent years in the form of small art & text works. She occasionally participates in group exhibitions and recently had a solo exhibition of small works which she showed locally with artist Kate O’Connor. Lizz also teaches Tai Chi.

Follow Lizz on her blog http://lizzmurphypoet.blogspot.com/

The Wear of my Face is available at https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925950342

Roger Waldron

Roger Waldron likes to think he lives on the cusp of razzmatazz when in reality he lives in Sheffield where he grew up in a house that had woodchip on the walls, His poems rarely leave home without him. Some have made it to the poetry magazine Dreich and into his pamphlet ‘My C&A Years’ also published by Dreich. He doesn’t own a cat or dog. He writes the same poem hopefully with different words and he has no desire to wear slip-on shoes. He has recently lost a pair of black sandals so if anyone has found/stolen them he’d really like them back and no further action will be taken. Jane (his wife) says she hasn’t put them in the bin but that’s still under investigation….

Follow Roger on Twitter at https://twitter.com/rogerthereg

My C & A years is available at https://hybriddreich.co.uk/dreich-slims/

Roisin Smith

Roisin Smith was born in Wicklow over 80 years ago, the youngest of four children. In rural Ireland at that time there were no TV’s or radios , so people made their own entertainment. At night when neighbours called in, it was not unusual to have songs and recitations. Her Mother’s favourite was the escape of Red Hugh O’ Donnell. That is where the seed was sown for her love of poetry. In 1969 she married a Cavan man and came to live there. But her life changed forever when her husband Foncie was killed in a farm accident 5 years ago. With shock and trauma, she grasped at straws but her family and friends helped her hugely.When lockdown came and we were all forced to retreat to our homes so she wrote some poems. In the stillness of times, she relived her childhood days, which are observations about nature and family and these are some of her poems. She published a poetry book called ‘Poems from the heart’ and sold them to raise funds for Embrace Farm a support group for families like herself that were affected by farm accidents. To date she has raised more than €3000. She is a member of Cootehill Poetry group. She has had some poems printed in Courcey Chronicle. Two of her poems are in Pandemic.ie. She has read poems in Cavan townhall and Cootehii library and has a seal of approval from Poetry Ireland

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 on Instagram at Manny_harmony11 & manny_the_creator_11 

Find out more about MANNY at his website https://emmanuelcarriere17.wixsite.com/bethechange-creative

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/

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