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This 1st episode of Season 8 will air on Saturday 3rd February 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Jane Clarke
Jane Clarke is the author of three poetry collections, The River (2015), When the Tree Falls (2019) and A Change in the Air (2023) published by Bloodaxe Books. Jane’s awards include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award 2022, the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry 2016 and the Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year 2016. She edited the illustrated anthology Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023). Her most recent collection, A Change in the Air, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.
Follow Jane on Twitter/X at https://twitter.com/jane_janeclarke
Find out more about Jane at http://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
A Change in the Air is available at Bloodaxe Books https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/a-change-in-the-air-1322
Hiram Larew
Larew Harew’s poetry appears widely. He founded Poetry X Hunger to bring a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause. And, his most recent collection, Patchy Ways, was published in 2023 by CyberWit Press
Follow Hiram on Twitter / X on at https://twitter.com/HiramGLarew
For more about Hiram check out https://www.hiramlarewpoetry.com/
And for all things Poetry X Hunger check out https://www.poetryxhunger.com/
Clare Starling
Clare Starling started writing poetry when her son was diagnosed with autism during lockdown. Her poems have since been published in many journals including Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Poetrygram, Porridge, Obsessed With Pipework, and The Interpreter’s House. Her pamphlet Magpie’s Nest won the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award 2023 and her poem Autistic Weather won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize 2023. She particularly loves writing about our connection with nature, and about how neurodiversity can give different perspectives on the world.
Follow Clare on Twitter / X at https://twitter.com/Clare_Starling
For for about Clare check out https://www.clarestarling.com/
David Nash
Behind the Storms featured guest
David Nash was born in County Cork and lives between Ireland and Chile. He is a poet, writer and translator. His pamphlet, The Islands of Chile, was published in 2022 with 14Poems, and his first full length collection, No Man’s Land, came out in November 2023 with Dedalus Press. He writes children’s books in Spanish, is a columnist for Harper’s Bazaar Korea, Elle Korea, and other publications, and translates work from several languages.
Follow David on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DavidofNash
For more about David check out https://davidnash.ie/poetry
Pick up a copy of No Man’s Land at Dedalus Press https://www.dedaluspress.com/product/no-mans-land/
Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet
Damien B Donnelly is a 48-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 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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