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This special episode of Season 9 aired on Saturday 15th December 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Behind the Storms with

Mark Antony Owen

Lauded for creating and curating online poetry journals iamb and After…, Mark Antony Owen is also the author of digital-first poetry project Subruria. He writes exclusively in nine self-devised syllabic forms, and has seen his poetry nominated for both The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Follow Mark on Bluesky and X and https://www.markantonyowen.com/

Jen Feroze

Jen Feroze lives by the sea in Essex. Her work has appeared in journals including Under the Radar, Magma, Poetry Wales, Butcher’s Dog, iamb, Berlin Lit, And Other Poems and The Interpreter’s House. She won the 2024 Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition, and her pamphlet ‘Tiny Bright Thorns’ was published by Nine Pens in 2024. She likes cold water swimming, chunky knitwear, and cheese you can eat with a spoon. 

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Natalie Ann Holborow

Natalie Ann Holborow is a writer, digital content specialist and marathon-runner. She won both the Terry Hetherington Award and Robin Reeves Prize in 2015, and has been shortlisted and commended for various other awards including the Bridport Prize, The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition, and the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. Her debut collection, And Suddenly You Find Yourself (Parthian, 2017) was launched at the Kolkata International Book Festival and was listed as one of Wales Arts Review’s Best of 2017. Her second collection, Small, will be published by Parthian in 2020.

Georgia Hilton

 Georgia Hilton is an Irish poet and fiction writer now living in Winchester, England. Her work has been published in places such as Iambapoet, After Poetry, the Rialto and Prole Magazine, amongst others. She is the author of two books of poetry, ‘I went up the lane quite cheerful’ (2018) and ‘Swing’ (2020), both published by Dempsey and Windle. Georgia is also co-author of the collaborative anthology ‘Sea Between Us’ (2022), published by Nine Pens Press. Her poem ‘Dark-Haired Hilda Replies to Patrick Kavanagh’ won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize in 2018 and her poem ‘The Lost Art of Staring Into Fires’ was runner up in the Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2021.

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Briony Collins

Briony Collins is an award-winning writer and publisher. She has three books with Broken Sleep – Blame it on Me, All That Glisters, and The Birds, The Rabbits, The Trees – and Whisper Network (Bangor University) and cactus land (Atomic Bohemian). In 2025, her debut novel and two poetry books are forthcoming.

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James McConachie

Writing from rural Spain, James McConachie has poetry published by Iambapoet, Black Bough, Eat the Storms, The Madrid Review and essays/short stories for the Dark Mountain Project. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart prize and Best of the Net. His debut collection, ‘Consolamentum’ was published in  October 2024 by Black Bough Poetry.

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Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet

Damien B Donnelly is a 48-year-old Irish, adopted, queer writer & podcast producer who spent 23 years in Paris, Amsterdam, and London working in the fashion industry, returning to Dublin at the end of 2019. He’s the host / producer of Eat the Storms and the EIC of The Storms, the printed journal of poetry, prose & 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 also published by Hedgehog in August 2022. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, online and in print. His 2^nd full collection, Back from Away, was published in May 2024 with Turas Press

The Storms journal is available here

Follow Damien is on X and instagram and Bluesky: @eatthestorms,com

You can purchase his pamphlets and collections at his website

Backing music for Eat the Storms is from Purple Planet Royalty Free Music

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