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This episode of Season 10 aired on Wednesday 31st December 2025. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Karen Pierce Gonzalez is an award-winning performance poet, writer, and intuitive artist from North San Francisco Bay Area. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs; Moon kissed, Earth wrought, Vision drunk; Down River with Li Po; RavenSong; and forthcoming Sun and Moon Wired Together and Speak Up / Speak Out. She publishes the biannual Ekphrastic Folk Art blogzine, co-hosts North Bay Poetics, and hosts #NotJustPretty zoom series.
Kevin Graham
Kevin Graham lives with his family in Dublin and works in risk, specializing in environmental liability. He graduated from Dublin City University with a BSc in Applied Computational Linguistics. His poems have appeared widely in print as well as on radio and he has received Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. He has published an e-chapbook with Smithereens Press and a pamphlet, First Impressions, with Ragpicker Poetry. His debut collection, The Lookout Post, published by The Gallery Press in 2023, won the Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award and was shortlisted for the Pollard Prize. Kevin Graham is the winner of the 2025 London Magazine Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Aspiration’. His second collection, Time’s Guest, was published in September 2025.
https://gallerypress.com/kevin-graham/
Molly Twomey
Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford and now lives in Cork. Her first collection, Raised Among Vultures was published in 2022 by The Gallery Press. It was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and won the Southword Debut Collection Poetry Award. She was awarded the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and an Arts Council Literature Bursary in 2024. Her second collection, Chic to be Sad, was published in July 2025.
Zita McGarry
Zita McGarry, a native of Longford , educated in the Mercy convent boarding school, Zita went on to study Hotel Management in Switzerland in the 90’s. Now having left the life of a hotelier behind and raised a family with her husband in Sallins Co. Kildare , she has turned fully towards the arts. Zita held her first solo exhibition of paintings just over twenty years ago. Throughout his time, this artist has been writing poems to mark the milestones, and sometimes to simply rest between paintings. In her artwork, as in her poetry and prose, she creates dense, richly textured surfaces manipulating materials (artists gel and modeling pasts) through etching, carving and lively pen and brushstroke. These elements combine with colour washes and muted tones to create a striking balance between abstract expression and control. As with her poetry it is a process of reduction, isolating the essential ingredients of the subject, distilling it down and building the image around it. Zita is currently working on a collection of poetry.
Find out more about Zita at https://zitamcgarry.com/
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 2nd 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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