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This episode of Season 10 aired on Sunday 7th December 2025. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Desmond Dowling

Desmond Dowling, 34, is originally from Templeogue in Dublin and has spent the last 10 years living and working in Manchester, UK. He has built his career in marketing and is currently working on his first novel. Desmond is also exploring poetry, a relatively new interest for him, and he remains unpublished as he develops his voice in this area.  

Eoin Devereux

Eoin Devereux’s debut poetry collection Gardening Leave has just been published by 451 Editions.  A Professor of Cultural Sociology, he teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. He is also one half of the Post Punk duo Dopamine Fix who released their first single ‘Welcome To The Sharktank’ earlier this year. 

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Gardening Leave is avaiable here

DOPAMINE FIX debut single ‘Welcome To The Sharktank’ can be ordered on collector’s Red Vinyl version from Blowtorch Records

Hannah Hull

Hanah Hull is a process-based artist using text, drawing, film, song, dialogue, and performance intervention. Their approach is iterative and situation-specific: an open mechanism that allows things to be made, reformed & challenged. Their practice invites people to articulate the spaces ‘in-between’; to disclose new sites, histories and languages. They undertake open brief commissions and residencies that aim to transform social issues. Their specialisms include mental health, homelessness, art in prisons, outsider art and public art. Their work is always political (with a small ‘p’), and often playful. They aim to empower audiences to engage creatively and critically with themselves and the world. They identify as disabled and queer.

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Order Home is Not a Place that Visits Me here

Luisa Aparisi-França

Luisa Aparisi-França is a queer, non-binary Latin writer from Miami, FL. Coming from a family that is Spanish and Brazilian, being raised in the US was a huge culture shock to the collectivist values they were taught. As a third culture kid, and someone who, for the most part, slides in and out of confines, Luisa seeks to use language as a way of bridging divides. Her poems explore transitions, transformations, community, deconstruction, family, love, obligation, and the spaces we constantly create with each decision and interaction.

Susan Richardson

Susan Richardson is the author of, Things My Mother Left Behind, from Baxter House Editions, Tiger Lily an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, from JC Studio Press, and Smatterings of Cerulean, a collection of short poems accompanied by the photographs of Ken Whytock, from Dark Winter Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms, Crannog, Door is Ajar, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others.  She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcasts, A Thousand Shades of Green and Story Sessions. 

Follow Susan at her website and on Instagram.

Jamie O’Halloran

Jamie O’Halloran was born, raised and has lived along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts of the United States, but is now an Irish citizen who makes her home in County Galway. She has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washingon. Drunk Muse Press published her debut collection, Ballast, in 2025. Jamie’s Corona Connemara & Half a Crown was a winner in the 2021 Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. She has published poems and poetry reviews in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Southword, 14 Magazine, One Hand Clapping, Channel, Crannóg, Tinder Box Poetry Journal and others. Her poems also appear in a dozen anthologies. Jamie was the 2021 Artist in Residence at Brigit’s Garden and is a recipient of a Words Ireland Mentoring Award and an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award. 

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Lawrence Moore

Lawrence Moore was something of a dilettante until he reached the age of forty. Since nestling upon poetry’s bough, his work has appeared in a number of publications including Roi Fainéant Press, Fahmidan Journal and The Madrigal. He has a new full-length poetry collection, This Joyful Interlude, published by Jane’s Studio Press in November 2025.

You can find Lawrence on Bluesky, under the handle lawrencemoore.bsky.social, and also on Instagram

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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