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The Special Pride Poetry Party Episode aires on Friday 28th June 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Derek Coyle

Derek Coyle’s Reading John Ashbery in Costa Coffee Carlow (2019) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong 2020 award for best first collection. Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster (2024) is published in a dual language edition in Tranas, Sweden. He poems have appeared in The Irish Times, Irish Pages, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Texas Literary Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Orbis, Skylight 47, Assaracus, The High Window and The Stony Thursday Book. He lectures in Carlow College/St Patrick’s, Ireland.

Follow Derek on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/derekemceecoyle/

For more information on https://thehighwindowpress.com/2024/02/22/the-spring-essay-derek-coyle-the-object-poem/

David Hanlon

David Hanlon is a Björk-loving confessional poet from Cardiff, Wales. His work explores themes of queerness, toxic masculinity, love, loss and mental health. He is a Best of the Net nominee and Co-Poetry Editor at Broken Spine Arts. He is widely published and his debut chapbook Spectrum of Flight was released in 2020 with Animal Heart Press. His first full-length collection Dawn’s Incision was recently published with Icefloe Press.

Follow David on x at https://x.com/DavidHanlon13

Dawn’s Incision is available from Ice Floe Press https://icefloepress.net/david-hanlon-dawns-incision-poems/

Jamie Lock / George Parker / JP Seabright

Jaime Lock (they/them) is a writer from the Isles of Scilly now living in London. They have poems in or forthcoming in Under the Radar, fourteen poems, Impossible Archetype, Signal House Edition, and the anthologies Cornish Modern Poetries (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) and HE / SHE / THEY / US (Macmillan, 2024) among others. Jaime is a recipient of the FylmK Award 2023 and The Squint Playwriting Award 2023. Twitter @jfranceslock Instagram @jfranceslock.

George Parker (they/them) is a writer, performer, podcast host, co-host of Rebel Riot, an H&T slam winner, co-director of Queer Stage Revolution, and Disabled and Queer Artist of the Year 2022. They were nominated for the National Diversity Awards and longlisted for a Space Crone Prize and Best of the Net. Their performance history includes The V&A Performance Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Manchester Pride, Pride in London. Their work appears in Mslexia, The F-Word, FT, Arachne Press, and more, and their novel ‘Twisted Roots’ (Reconnecting Rainbows Press) is out now. Twitter @a_george_parker Instagram @a_g_parker

JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer disabled writer living in London. They have four solo pamphlets published and two collaborations, encompassing poetry, prose and experimental work. They explore themes of gender, sexuality, trauma and the climate crisis in their work, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Forward Prize (twice), as well as shortlisted (twice) for a Saboteur Award for Best Collaborative Work. More info at https://jpseabright.com via Twitter @errormessage and @jpseabright everywhere else.

Book & blurbs here: https://punkdust.com/not-your-orlando/

Live launch: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/20523/not-your-orlando-launch

Online launch: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/20548/not-your-orlando-book-online-launch

Follow JP on X at https://x.com/errormessage

Follow Jamie on X at https://x.com/jfranceslock

Follow George on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/a_g_parker/

Lawrence Moore

Lawrence Moore writes from a loft study overlooking the coastal city of Portsmouth where he lives with his husband Matt and nine mostly well behaved cats. Among other publications, his poems have appeared in Sarasvati, Fevers of the Mind, Feral Poetry and The Madrigal. He released a chapbook, Aerial Sweetshop in 2022 and has just released his first full poetry collection, The Breadcrumb Trail, published by Jane’s Studio Press

Follow Lawrence on X https://x.com/LawrenceMooreUK

Find out more about Lawrence or where to buy his collections at https://linktr.ee/LawrenceMoorePoetry

MANNY

MANNY (he/him) is a performer, writer and actor from London. He graduated from the University of Roehampton with a degree in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. He likes to work on projects, collaborate with people and more. He loves exploring all different topics and themes in his work. He enjoys connecting spoken word, acting, music and movement/dance together. He has three writing projects out online on Wixsite at the moment: Beauty Within The Cracks, ART IS MY SUPERPOWER and BURNIN’ FLAME and is currently working on a fourth writing project.. He has two singles out on streaming platforms called Unwanted Noise & The Cold Air Crept In.

Follow MANNY on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/manny_harmony11/

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

Mark Ward

Mark Ward is the author of the collection Nightlight (Salmon Poetry, 2023). His chapbooks include Faultlines (voidspace, March 2024), Carcass (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020) and Circumference (Seven Kitchens Press, 2018). His poems have been published widely at home and abroad. He was Highly Commended in the 2019 and 2022 Patrick Kavanagh Awards and selected for the 2020 Poetry Ireland Introductions series. He has recorded poems for Arena, The Poetry Programme, Poetry File & Words Lightly Spoken. He is the founding editor of Impossible Archetype, an international journal of LGBTQ+ poetry.

Follow Mark on X at https://x.com/dogwithoutlegs

Find out More about Mark at https://astintinyourspotlight.wordpress.com/

Buy Nightlife at Salmon Poetry https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=581&a=365

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 X at https://x.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

James Schwartz

James Schwartz is a poet & author of various poetry collections including The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America (Kindle, 2011), Punatic (Writing Knights Press, 2019) & most recently Motor City Mix, Sunset in Rome (Alien Buddha Press, 2022), Long Lost Friend (Alien Buddha Press, 2023).

Follow James on x at https://x.com/queeraspoetry

Find out more about James at https://literaryparty.blogspot.com/

Emma Clowsley

Emma Clowskey is an energetic performance poet, and host. Her poetry pamphlet, Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush, was published by Flight of the Dragonfly. Emma’s poems focus on lesbian stereotypes, love, lust, and friendships. She’s known for her raunchy rhymes. She is also a card carrying member of National Trust. Emma is co-founder and host of Diversion @ Ledbury Poetry, a spoken word evening showcasing emerging talent next to established poets. She is both hosting and performing at the next Ledbury Poetry Festival, which is on between 28th June – 7th July  

Follow Emma on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091556421281

Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush is available at https://flight-of-the-dragonfly.sumupstore.com/product/don-t-forget-your-toothbrush

John McCullough

John McCullough lives in Hove. His third book of poems, Reckless Paper Birds, was published with Penned in the Margins and won the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature as well as being shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. John’s previous collections have been Books of the Year for publications including The Guardian and The Independent, and he also won the Polari First Book Prize. His poem ‘Flower of Sulphur’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His fourth collection, Panic Response, was published in March 2022 by Penned in the Margins.

Follow John on X at https://x.com/JohnMcCullough_

Find out more about John at https://johnmccullough.co.uk/

Find John’s collections at Penned in the Margins https://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2017/12/john-mccullough/

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 2^nd 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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