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This second episode of Season 10 aired on Sunday 19th October 2025. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Marcelle Newbold

Marcelle Newbold’s writing explores place and inheritance. Bridport Prize shortlisted, nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart, her poems have been published by Poetry Wales, Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Atrium, Fly on the Wall Press, Black Bough Poetry, Indigo Dreams and others. She is a committee member for the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, contributing editor at The Winged Moon, and has been a guest editor for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, Feral, and Black Bough. Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect. 

Follow Marcelle on Instagram or via her website

Ben Simmons

Ben Simmons is a writer and musician raised in North-west Donegal. His work has been featured in major literary journals and newspapers, including Stand, The Los Angeles Press, and The Irish Times. He was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introduction series in 2016 and published his first chapbook, Dog Heart, in 2023.

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Julie Stevens

Julie Stevens writes poems that cover many themes but often engages with the problems of disability. She is widely published in places such as anthologies from Macmillan and OUP, Broken Sleep Books, Indigo Dreams Publishing and on Ink Sweat & Tears. She has five published pamphlets.

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Andy Breckenridge

Andy Breckenridge is a Secondary English teacher living in Brighton but originally from Oban, in Argyllshire. He writes about self imposed exile, cultural identity, memory and how this connects to our relationships with the rural and urban spaces we inhabit. His debut pamphlet, The Liquid Air, was published by Dreich in July 2021, and the Chris Riddell illustrated version came out in August 2022. His debut full collection, The Fish Inside, was published by Flight of the Dragonfly in March 2023. His poem You, Faustus was awarded first prize in the 2023 Indigo Dreams Poetry Competition. Abertawe was voted Poem of the Month by the readers of Ink, Sweat and Tears in August 2024.His poems have been published in the following print and online journals: Dreich, Full House Literary, Flights online journal, Fevers of the Mind, Iamb Wave 15, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Nutmeg Magazine, Poet’s Republic, Eat The Storms, Tippermuir Press, Southlight Magazine and The Shore. 

Follow Andy on Instagram and discover The Fish Inside here

Host / Producer Damien B Donnelly

Damien B Donnelly is a 50-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. He is the Head of Programming at the Irish Writers Centre.

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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