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This episode of Season 7 aired first on Saturday 9th September 2023, produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Beth Brooke

Beth Brooke is a retired teacher. Her second pamphlet, Transformations has just been published by Hedgehog Poetry Press. The poems are all written in response to the work and life of the artist, Elisabeth Frink.

Follow Beth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BethBrooke8

Find out about Transformations at The Hedgehog Poetry Press https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/2023/08/25/a-hog-blogs-cover-reveal-beth-brookes-transformations/

Charles K Carter

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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 on https://twitter.com/CKCpoetry

Check out Sunday Sweet Chats on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3mtHj_9lsZbwDhAGtmjU0eO-jXMHf0S

Find our more about Charles via https://linktr.ee/CharlesKCarter

Wendy Allen

Wendy Allen’s work has appeared in The Rialto, bath magg, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, The London Magazine and Propel. Her pamphlet, Plastic Tubed Little Bird, was published in May 2023 by Broken Sleep. 

Follow Wendy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/_WendyCaitlin

Plastic Tubed Little Bird is available at Broken Sleep https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/wendy-allen-plastic-tubed-little-bird

Liam Flanagan

Liam Flanagan has been 48 years living in Galway, Ireland. He has a degree in English and is a Former IT manager. He has had over forty poems published over the last two years. He is an BIA recipient for Literature and likes sport, film, music and politics 

Follow Liam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LFlanaga

Follow Liam via Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/liam.flanagan.359

Samuel Strathman

Samuel Strathman is a poet, visual artist, and author.  Some of his work have appeared or are forthcoming in Ghost City Review, steel incisors, above?ground press, and other publications.  His debut poetry collection “Omnishambles” is forthcoming with Ice Floe Press (October, 2023).  

Follow Samuel on Twitter at https://twitter.com/s_strathman_

Pre-order Omnishambles here https://icefloepress.net/omnishambles-samuel-strathman/

The Write Time Festival 2023

Find out more about the Write Time Festival, September 3023 here https://www.fingal.ie/welcome-write-time-festival-2023

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…

https://www.purple-planet.com/

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