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The 14th episode of Season 8 will air on Saturday 18th May 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Sarah Wallis
Sarah Wallis is a writer living on the East Coast of Scotland, UK. She has five chapbooks out in the world including Medusa Retold, Precious Mettle and the latest, Poet Seabird Island, now available from Boats Against the Current. 2023 included poem art at Osmosis, podcasting with Eat the Storms and a winning story at The Welkin. Other recent work in 2024 is at Propel Magazine and The Dirigible Balloon, in both digital and audio versions. She is currently working on a book about light sources and a series of epistolary poems to her late grandmother.
Follow Sarah on X at https://x.com/wordweave
Find out more about Sarah at http://sarahwallis.net/
Buy a copy of Poet Seabird Island at https://boatsagainstthecurrent.org/chapbooks/poet-seabird-island-by-sarah-wallis
David Kelleher
David Kelleher is a family man from Wexford. He is an Ultra Marathon Runner. David represented Republic of Ireland in the World Mountain Running Championships in 2022. David has completed a degree and master’s in business, and more recently completed a course via University of Oxford. David published his first book of poetry in 2023, the title of the book is “Stop, Breathe, Read”, it is available on Amazon and Kindle. On the 9th of Aug 2023, his book “Stop, Breathe, Read” was sales ranked number 1 on Love Poems on Amazon UK, and number 3 on British and Irish Poetry.
Stop Breathe Read is available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Breathe-Read-Poems-simplicity-ebook/dp/B0BTTDRC4X?ref_=ast_author_mpb
Julian Matthews
Julian Matthews is a mixed-race poet and writer based in Malaysia. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Dream Catcher magazine/Stairwell Books, UK in 2022. He is published in The American Journal of Poetry, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and New Verse News, among other journals and anthologies.
Find out more about Julian at https://linktr.ee/julianmatthews
Chris Fitzpatrick
Chris Fitzpatrick has published short stories and poetry. His first collection of poetry. Poetic Licence in a time of Corona, was published in May 2022 by Twenty First Century Renaissance. Chris recently retired after forty years in medical practice.
Poetic License in a Time of Corona is available at https://www.21cr.ie/store/p38/Poetic_Licence_in_a_Time_of_Corona_by_Chris_Fitzpatrick.html
Behind the Storms
Featured Guests – Fingal Poetry Festival
Enda Coyle-Greene was born in Dublin and now lives in Skerries. Her first collection, Snow Negatives, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2006 and was published by the Dedalus Press in 2007. Her subsequent collections are Map of the Last (2013) and Indigo, Electric, Baby (2020) both also from Dedalus. Published and anthologised widely in Ireland and elsewhere, her work has also featured on RTE Radio One and on film. Awarded a Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2020, she holds and MA (Dist.) from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast. She is co-founder of Fingal Poetry Festival for which she is Artistic Director.
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, a.k.a Cathi Weldon, is from Rush, North Co. Dublin and currently lives in the Gaeltacht of West Kerry, in the area known as Corca Dhuibhne. Ní Bheildiúin writes in her adopted tongue, Irish, and four volumes of her original poetry, have been published, the lastest of which is Agallamh sa Cheo, published by Coiscéim, which earned her the Michael Harnett Prize of 2021, as well as Oireachtas prize for best volume of Irish language poetry 2018. Ceaití’s fifth collection of original poems is now ‘waiting in the wings’. Two bilingual volumes of poems by Ceaití have been published. The latest of these is a selection of poems made and translated to English by Paddy Bushe, published by Dedalus Press, 2022. A third bilingual edition of her work awaits a publication date. Ceaití works with Fingal Poetry Festival as a committee member, creating an Irish-language aspect to that festival since 2021. She acts as mentor to emerging Irish language poets and facilitates creative writing workshops as well as poetry workshops, through Irish, at the Díseart Centre in Dingle, Co. Kerry. She holds an MA in Gaeilic Lit.
Find out all about the Fingal Poetry Festival at https://fingalpoetryfestival.com/
Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet
Damien B Donnelly is a 48-year-old Irish, adopted, queer writer and podcast producer who spent 23 years living in Paris, Amsterdam, and London working in the fashion industry, returning to Dublin at the end of 2020. 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 Back from Away was published on the 8th May 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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