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The 17th episode of Season 8 aired on Saturday 8th June 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Matthew MC Smith
Matthew M. C. Smith is a Welsh writer from Swansea. He is a three times-nominated ‘Best of the Net’ writer (Icefloe Press 2020, Acropolis Journal 2022 and Broken Spine 2022), a Pushcart Prize nominee (Broken Spine 2022) and R.S. Thomas prize winner (Gwyl Cybi). Matthew is widely published in presses such as Poetry Wales, Barren Magazine, iambapoet, The Lonely Crowd, Icefloe Press, Arachne Press, Finished Creatures and Broken Spine Arts. Matthew published Origin: 21 Poems in 2018 and The Keeper of Aeons in Autumn 2022, published by The Broken Spine Arts, followed by the pamphlet ‘Paviland: Ice and Fire’ in 2023. He studied for a PhD on the subject of Robert Graves and Wales at Swansea University, completing this in 2006. He is academically published in the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English with articles on Robert Graves. Matthew writes about landscape, history, spirit of place, identities, family and cosmology. He is the editor of Black Bough poetry, a project created in 2019 to promote imagist micropoetry. He is the originator and organiser of weekly poetry fest @TopTweetTuesday on Twitter and the Silver Branch that platforms amazing writers. Matthew has reviewed for Poetry Wales, London Grip and The Broken Spine. Matthew is a campaigner for the return of the ‘Red Lady of Paviland to Swansea and has published a pamphlet ‘Paviland: Ice and Fire’ in January 2023, to mark 200 years since the discovery of these sacred relics in Gower, with all profits to the local foodbank. Matthew has supported Owen Sheers at a poetry reading in Swansea in March 2024 and Matthew Hollis at the Cheltenham Poetry festival in April 2024.
Follow Matthew on X at https://x.com/MatthewMCSmith
Follow Black Bough Poetry on X at https://x.com/blackboughpoems
Follow Top Tweet Tuesday on X at https://x.com/TopTweetTuesday
For more information on Black Bough Poetry check out https://www.blackboughpoetry.com/
Rhona Greene
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Jack B Bedell
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Find our all about Jack at https://www.jackbbedell.com/
Julian Day
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Andy MacGregor
Read Andy’s poems as part of The Silver Branch Series at Back Bough at https://www.blackboughpoetry.com/andy-mcgregor-january-22
Mark Anthony Owen
Follow Mark on X at https://x.com/MarkAntonyOwen
Follow iamb on X at https://x.com/iambapoet
Follow AfterPoetry at https://x.com/after_poetry
Dive into Subruria on X at https://x.com/Subruria
Merril D Smith
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Ness Owen
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Marcelle Newbold
Follow Marcelle on X at https://x.com/marcellenewbold
Find out about In Flight at https://www.blackboughpoetry.com/in-flight-edition
Read some of Marcelle’s poems in The Silver Branch Series at Black Bough https://www.blackboughpoetry.com/march-2022-marcelle-newbold
Sarah Connor
Follow Sarah on X at https://x.com/sacosw
Find out about The Poet Spells her Name from Black Bough at https://www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor-the-poet-spells-her-name
Matt Gilbert
Follow Matt on X at https://x.com/RichlyEvocative
Find out all about Street Sailing at https://www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert
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/
Backing music for Eat the Storms is from Purple Planet Royalty Free Music, with thanks…
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