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This episode of Season 9 aired on Saturday 23rd November 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Morag Anderson

Morag Anderson’s second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound, won the Aryamati Poetry Pamphlet Prize and was described by TS Eliot Prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor as Delicate and furious…a haunting act of worship, of rebellion. She was poet-in-residence at Creative Brain Week 2024 in Dublin’s Trinity College, poet-in-residence for the 2024 Birnam Book Festival, and the 2023 Makar for the Federation of Writers (Scotland). The Scottish Poetry Library has commissioned several pieces of her work, and she is currently working with The Canmore Suicide Prevention Trust and The National Trust for Scotland.

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S.C. Flynn

S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His forthcoming collections are “The Colour of Extinction” (Renard Press, September 2024) and “An Ocean Called Hope” (Downingfield Press, May 2025). His poetry has been published in more than a hundred magazines, including The Storms, in more than ten countries.

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Melanie Joy

Melanie Joy makes sense of her world through poetry. Her poems reflect her internal and external landscapes. Melanie is the recipient of mentorship and retreat bursaries through Kerry Arts Council.  She has enjoyed seeing her poems in print thanks to amongst others: The Galway Review, Drawn To The Light Press, Skylight 47 and has been longlisted and shortlisted for HOWL and Irish Independent, New Irish Writing. Melanie is working on her debut collection.

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Koss

 Koss (she/they/them) is a mixed-race, queer poet, writer, and artist with publications in Chiron Review, Michigan Quarterly (Mixtapes), Cincinnati Review (miCro), Spillway, diode poetry, Five Points, Sage Cigarettes, MoonPark Review, Beaver Mag, Sage Cigarettes, Spoon River Poetry Review,  Gone Lawn, Variant Lit, Anti-Heroin Chic, San Pedro River Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Bending Genres, Bulb Culture Collective, Ran off with the Star Bassoon, Prelude Magazine, Reckon Review, Sugar Sugar Salt Lit, Midway Journal, and many others. They have work in or forthcoming from many anthologies including Ovation, Bone Milk II, Best Small Fictions 2020, Get Bent, Fallen, Thin Places and Sacred Spaces, Beyond the Frame, Querencia Winter ’24 Anthology, Secrets in the Garden,  Dead of Winter III, and Punk. They’ve received numerous award nominations and won the 2021 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest and have a chapbook, Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect coming from Diode Editions in ’24.

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Cathy Briel

Originally from N. Ireland and now living between Co. Down and Leitrim, Cathy Briel started writing 6 years ago. The poetry is often about observing the natural world, also referencing experiences of loss, grief and transcendence. She has published 26 poems through tribes press in Galway and is on Instagram, occasionally forgetting, but trying to post 1 poem with a piece of my own artwork or photography weekly. Her poetry reading would have been Tagore, Rumi, mostly devotional poetry and recently Bukowski for his stark honesty, but she tries not to be influenced by other writers.

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Richard Harries

Richard Harries is a 72 year old Yorkshire poet. He appears at charity events and festivals regularly. He appears on Zoom,  headlining globally. His written word covers many genres. He can be political and angry, write children story poems, comedy and  more. His serious work includes poems about male breast cancer, homelessness, depression and disability discrimination. He has two books published by Stairwell books of York AWAKENING and ICONIC TATTOO. He was part of the team that created the play HAUNT, about historic homelessness and bedsitter poverty . Saboteur nominated. His poem TWELVE HOURS was read on the Battlefield of Bellewardee , exactly 100 years from the first shot being fired .  He has been included three times in Anthologies for World Peace that have been No 1 on the Amazon poetry anthology chart worldwide. He has been published in Anthologies , magazines and books worldwide.

Iconic Tattoo is available at Stairwell Books

Julie Didcock-Williams

Julie Didcock-Williams’ work has featured in publications such as Wildfire-Words, Blithe Spirit, Cider Press Review and Rock Paper Poems and alongside Paul Jackson’s artworks in WING Gallery, Wadhurst, East Sussex.  She has a Masters in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, University of London.  Her novel, The Cove, was published in 2020. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize and Mslexia Novel Competition.  She lives in rural East Sussex where the landscape inspires her work. 

Klaus Funnell

Klaus Funnell is a non-binary, autistic writer residing in Cornwall, England. Their poems depict daily life as an autistic queer person, exploring themes of grief throughout and general annoyance for the world. Selected works delve into the depths of subjects from grief, nomadic living and autism.

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Nuala McEvoy

Nuala McEvoy is from North West England but has lived abroad for many years.  She started writing during the Pandemic and has had work published in Little Old Lady Comedy, Dark Winter Lit, Funny Pearls, Tap into Poetry, Lighten Up Online, The Dirigible Balloon, The Hooghly Review, Transients and The Metaphysical Review.  She has read her poems aloud on Coalition for Digital Narratives and Eat The Storms.

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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 here

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You can purchase his pamphlets and collections at his website

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