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This episode of Season 10 aired on Sunday 26th October 2025. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Deirdre Cartmill

Deirdre Cartmill is a Northern Irish poet who has published three poetry collections – The Wind Stills to Listen (Arlen House), The Return of the Buffalo (Lagan Press) and Midnight Solo (Lagan Press). Her fourth collection Under the Blue Seraphim is forthcoming. She has written for TV, radio and theatre, and has had several short stories published. She is a part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing for Ulster University. As a mentor and facilitator she loves to help writers find their voice. These poems were inspired by her time as Writer-in-Residence for Belfast Cathedral.

Follow Deirdre on Instagram or via her website and her books can be found here

Fidel Hogan Walsh

At the heart of Fidel Hogan Walsh’s poetry is a deep curiosity about life’s mysteries and a commitment to giving voice to the beauty and struggle of the human spirit. She shares this voice widely, through live performances, print and digital media reaching diverse audiences with heartfelt honesty and creative energy. Her work has appeared in Poethead, Pendanic, UCD Archives, Poetry Ireland’s Poetry Town Pocket Poems booklet, The Irish Times, and as a guest poet on The Artist Room and Íontas Theatre. She has featured in The Storms Journal, Eat the Storms podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green podcast, and Wave Twenty-Two of iamb Poet—bringing poetry vividly to life. Her short stories are published in Thrice Remembered – An Anthology. Fidel was honoured as the inaugural winner of the Enlighten Prize at Hambly & Hambly with her poem What Peace Feels Like, and again in 2021 with For You. She has performed at Imagine: Arts Unlocked at Hambly & Hambly, Enniskillen and Culture by Candlelight with Fermanagh Omagh Arts Office. Her dedication to peace and community is reflected in her contributions to two Cross Border Peace IV projects, including Peaceful Photography and Empowering Women – Next Chapter. Fidel’s three published collections, Living with Love, Time and Out There offer intimate explorations of life’s beauty and complexity with Time named one of Dublin City Libraries’ Top 10 non-fiction titles in 2020. In 2023, she released Words on Water, a limited-edition nature-inspired poetry collection created for National Heritage Week with Friends of Castle Lake Catchment—where poetry, nature, and science meet in harmony. Her ongoing project, Collaborations that Inspire, pairs her poems with the works of visual artists in a dynamic exchange of creative interpretation.

Follow Fidal on Instagram and buy Out There here

Galia Admoni

Galia Admoni is the author of Immediately after and then later (Black Cat Press, 2024) and co-author of Art Sundays (Salo Press, 2025) and I get lost everywhere, you know this now (Salo Press, 2024). She has poems in Prototype 6, The Rialto, Bad Lilies, The North and other journals. She was commended in 2023 Primers, placed third in the Briefly Write poetry prize 2022. She is also the Head of English at a secondary school in London. 

Follow Galia via her Instagram and buy Sad Boys are not my Kink here

Hiram Larew

During his career, Hiram Larew guided US Government food security programs.   His seventh collection of poems, This Much Very, was published by Alien Buddha in 2025.  His poems have appeared in recent issues of Poetry South, Iowa Review, Poetry Scotland, and Contemporary American Voices, and have been nominated for several Pushcart awards and a Best of the Net award.  He’s received support from arts groups and food banks as well as the United Nations and Feed the Children for his Poetry X Hunger, an initiative that is bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause.  And, he founded the Voices of Woodlawn, a powerful program of poetry, music and art that explores America’s tragic history and legacy of slavery.  Larew is a Courtesy Faculty at five U. S. universities, is a former member of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Poetry Board and has been popularly interviewed in magazines and on radio, social media and podcasts.  He lives in Churchton, Maryland, USA.

Follow Hiram via his website and discover Poetry X Hunger here and purchase This Much Very 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

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