I turn 50 in 2025! Ah! Therefore, in order to prepare and feel the weight of the number itself, here are my 50 from 2024, 50 poetry collections that rocked the Storms, either by appearing on the podcast, Eat the Storms, or perhaps companions at book launches, readings or just simply to entertain its editor. They didn’t all come out this year but they came to visit me this year!
Merry Christmas everyone. And remember, poetry is not just for Christmas, it’s for kids of all ages, including the last stand this 49-year-old!
S. Preston Duncan – Blood Aluvium
Rita Ann Higgins – The Long Weekend
Sarah Connor – Always Fire
Gustave Parker Hibbett – High Jump as Icarus
JP Seabright – White Cloud Over Purple
Anne Tannam – dismantle
Karen Pierce Gonzalez – Coyote in the Basket of my Ribs
Susan Richardson / Jane Cornwell – Tiger Lily
Paul Stephenson – Hard Drive
Katie Donovan – May Swim
Micheál McCann – Devotion
Margaret Royall – Toccata and Fugue with Harp
Victoria Kennefick – egg / shell
Seán Hewitt – Rapture’s Road
Cathy Carson – Becoming Marvellous
Sue Finch – Welcome to the Museum of a Life
Eileen Carney Hulme – Somewhere a Tree waits for an Angel or a Butterfly
Dark Angels Poets – And So We Grow
Dark Angels Poets – John Simmons / Berliners
Northern Soul Roadshow 2025, various contributors / Irish Writers Centre – curated by Fiona O’Rourke
Seamus ua Trodd – Eclectia
David Hanlon – Dawn’s Incision
Dreich Planet #2 Isle of Man
Sarah Wallis – Poet Seabird Island
David Nash – No Man’s Land
Phil Lynch – Moving On
Kevin Reid – Held
Kevin Reid – Suitcase
Bobbie Sparrow – The Weight of Blood
K.T Slattery – Mississippi Birdfeeder at Night
The Broken Spine – Untamed Love, The Whiskey Tree, Wave 1
The Broken Spine – Untamed Nature, The Whiskey Tree, Wave 1
Paul Robert Mullen – it’s all come down to this
Patricia M. Osborne – Nature’s Bookends
Pat Boran – Hedge School
Robert Frede Kenter – Audacity of Form
Jackie Lynam – Traces
S.C Flynn – the Colour of Extinction
Speak your Truth, an anthology of Poems edited by Ger Duffy
Linda McKenna – Four Thousand Keys
Kath McKay – Moving the Elephant
David McLoghlin – Crash Centre
Lesley Curwen – Rescue Lines
Gary Gautier – The Day we met in Earthy Time
Catherine Ronan – Elemental Skin
HOWL – New Irish Writing
Mark Ward – I was a Teenage Exorcist
Mark Ward – Nightlight
Karen Mooney / Caroline Johnston – Pivots and Portals
The Storms Issue 4, Dublin Days, from city to shore & across the sea
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year. A brighter year, a better year, a year of celebrating our uniqueness, our diversity, our spirit, instead of trying to extinguish that spirit. With love and hope, Dami xx
Storm Shelter 
And, while you’re there – I wanted to thank you for the podcast, especially the delightful Halloween and the fundraiser for children not numbers, wonderful.
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