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This episode of Season 9 aired on Saturday 4th January 2025. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Eugene O’Hare
Eugene O’Hare is a writer as well as a stage and screen actor. His first plays are published by Methuen Drama and have each premiered in London since 2019 starring actors including Miriam Margloyes and Kathy Kiera Clarke. He is currently writing for Netflix and developing some feature-length film work. His radio short stories have been read by Stephen Rea and Caitriona Balfe. His first audio drama, now available on BBC Sounds and I-Player, stars Michelle Farley and is called ‘Hello I Appear to Have Killed My Husband’. He began writing and sharing poetry in 2020 and was runner-up in 2024 for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. He has also been shortlisted for the poetry prize at Belfast Book Festival. His poems appear in Cyphers, Stand, Arc, Causeway and more. He lives in London.
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Colleen Machut
Colleen Machut is a teacher and a writer from Sheboygan, WI USA. She lives there with her husband, Trent, and their son, Desmond. Colleen and Trent write and perform songs in the lakeshore area of Wisconsin. Colleen has poems published or forthcoming in Stanza Cannon, Whimsical Publications, Impspired, Open Skies Quarterly Edition 1, Open Skies Quarterly Edition 3, Jalmurra, Creation and the Cosmos Anthology, Today’s Caregiver, Anxious Times Magazine, and CORE: Dance Poems Volume III.
Read more from Colleen over at Impspired
David Edelman
David Edelman’s poems have appeared in various publications, including Skylight 47, The Bangor Literary Journal, Freshwater Literary Journal, and Mudlark. Brooding Heron Press published his chapbook, After the Translation. Originally from Bellingham on the Northwest Coast of the United States, he currently resides in Westport, Ireland.
Read more from David here
Isabella G. Mead
Isabella G. Mead’s debut poetry collection, The Infant Vine, was published in 2024 by University of Western Australia Publishing. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Island, Rabbit, Westerly, Cordite Poetry Review, Anthropocene and Plumwood Mountain Journal. In 2024, she won the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize and she is currently a PhD Candidate in Creative Writing at Monash University. Isabella lives, writes and raises her young family in Naarm, also known as Melbourne, Australia.
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Jeremy Haworth
Jeremy Haworth is a Dublin-born poet. He won the Cúirt New Writing Festival in 2019. Last year, he published his first collection, a book of haibun entitled Four Season Farm. Gardener by day, he resides in rural Laois with his wife and three young children
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Madeleine F. White
Madeleine F. White was born in Germany, with roots in Canada and the UK. A magazine publisher and editor, she has produced national and international web and print magazines, creating a voice for those without one, such as the successful Nina-Iraq, a project she worked on with the World Bank to reach out to Iraqi women everywhere. Since 2019, she has been founder/editor of Write On! magazine Write On! Audio Podcast and Write On! Extra e-zine, published by Pen to Print, an Arts Council NPO organisation and has led workshops and guest lectured at a number of universities in the UK and abroad. Having just signed a three-book deal with the US Sea Crow Press for her poetry, Madeleine is now working on a second novel. Second edition of The Horse And The Girl to be published in February 2025. poetry collection Maiden Mother Crone a memoir in verse, with, planned release linked to Women’s History Month, this spring.
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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 2nd 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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