Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on 28th November 2020 and I was joined by poets Merril D. Smith, Serge Neptune, Kari Flickinger, Annick Yerem. The links to their websites, blogs or Twitter pages are all listed below… Merril D Smith is on InstagramContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 13”
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The Woman With An Owl Tattoo – Anne Walsh Donnelly
Anne Walsh Donnelly opens her chapbook The Woman with an Owl Tattoo, published by Fly on the Wall Press, with the no-holes barred, blaring, bold Guide to Becoming a Writer, a poem that documents a life in change, in search, in turmoil, in the depths of despair, indivisible from the pen. And we instantly knowContinue reading “The Woman With An Owl Tattoo – Anne Walsh Donnelly”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 12
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on 21st November 2020 and I was joined by poets Jude Marr, Darren J Beaney, Elisabeth Horan and Brian McManus. The links to their websites, blogs or Twitter pages are all listed below… Jude Marr is on InstagramContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 12”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 11
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on 14th November 2020 and I was joined by poets Attracta Fahy, David Ralph Lewis and Glen Wilson. The links to their websites, blogs or Twitter pages are all listed below… Attracta Fahy is on Instagram at @AttractaFahyContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 11”
Mamiaith by Ness Owen
‘Begin with fearlessness…’ from the poem How to Begin Mamiaith by Ness Owen There is a deep sense of loss in the opening poem to Ness Owen’s Mamiaith (Welsh for Mother Tongue) but it is delicately laid down with a hope for rebirth; a memory planted within the roots so we can look out theContinue reading “Mamiaith by Ness Owen”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 10
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on 07th November 2020 and I was joined by poets Eileen Carney Hulme, Karen Mooney, David L O’Nan and Liam Porter. The links to their websites, blogs or Twitter pages are all listed below… David L O’Nan isContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 10”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 9
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on 31st October 2020 and I was joined by poets Ness Owen, Lynn Valentine, Roger Hare and Sarah-Jane Crowson. The links to their websites, blogs or Twitter pages are all listed below… Lynn Valentine is on Twitter atContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 9”
Eat the Storms – The Pride Poetry Podcast Episode 8
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on 24th October 2020, and it was a celebration of voices from the LGBTQ+ community. I was joined on this show by Andreena Leeanne, David Hanlon, Anne Walsh Donnelly, Erin Russell, Katie Proctor, Grace Alice Evans, Ryan NormanContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Pride Poetry Podcast Episode 8”
Quicksand – Julie Stevens
In the new chapbook Quicksand, by Julie Stevens, published by Hybriddreich, there is a line in the opening poem that reads ‘I’m a factory working hard to produce a mystery, a collection of broken parts awaiting an answer…’ and this is indeed a collection of broken parts but it delivers its message clearly and itsContinue reading “Quicksand – Julie Stevens”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 7
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on 17th October 2020, the 1st month birthday of my debut collection Eat the Storms published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press and I was joined by poets Anna Saunders, Paul Brookes, Devon Marsh and Matthew M C Smith.Continue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 7”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 6
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on 10th October 2020 and we shared poems about flights, dreams, strengths, coming home and dualities. I was joined by Julie Stevens, Steve Denehan, Mari Maxwell and Sharon Larkin. The links to their websites, blogs or Twitter pagesContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 6”
Spectrum of Flight – David Hanlon
I can remember, creeping down the stairs, after midnight, my parents sleeping, my heart trying to break out of my ribcage, turning on the tv as the sound of my breath rose beyond control, turning down the volume and clicking on to Channel 4 to watch Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane as nerves stuck like knives inContinue reading “Spectrum of Flight – David Hanlon”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 5
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms This episode aired on National Poetry Day 2020, 1st October, so a very a happy Poetry Day to everyone listening and reading. This episode was all about journeys, movements, change and time passing. I was joined by poets from all aroundContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 5”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 4
Podcast available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker and many more platforms The 4th episode was a happy Host of Hoglets as I was accompanied by poets all with collections published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press who published my debut collection, also called Eat the Storms. On the show was Nigel Kent readingContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 4”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 3
Podcast is available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Anchor, Bleaker and Apple Podcasts and many more platforms. The 3rd podcast on the 19th Sept 2020 was the 1st episode to feature bumper to bumper amazing guest artists from all around the world. From Aotearoa to Cobh in Country Cork, in Ireland, this almost hour-long featureContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 3”
SEASONS – KATIE PROCTOR
Katie Proctor is only 17 and yet already understands her position within the universe and how precarious that is and how it changes, how sometimes you sleep next to the stars and other times you’re left alone hoping that very star is whispering your name on her tongue, in another time and place- ‘you, withContinue reading “SEASONS – KATIE PROCTOR”
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Eat the Storms – The Podcast -Episode 2
Podcast is available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Anchor, Bleaker and Apple Podcasts and many more platforms. The 2nd episode of Eat the Storms, The Podcast, aired on 11th September and featured my very first guest, Belfast born poet Gaynor Kane who joined me to share poems from her latest collection, Venus in Pink Marble,Continue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast -Episode 2”
Eat the Storms- Damien B. Donnelly
My debut poetry pamphlet collection is called Eat the Storms and was published on the 17th September 2020 by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. In 2019, while still living in Paris, I was one of three winners of the White Label Debut Poetry Pamphlet Collection and this collection is that winning dream come to life. ‘IContinue reading “Eat the Storms- Damien B. Donnelly”
Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 1
Podcast is available on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Anchor, Bleaker and Apple Podcasts and many more platforms. Launched on the 4th September, Eat the Storms, the Podcast, was originally created to celebrate the launch of my debut collection of poetry Eat the Storms, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. The podcast was a way toContinue reading “Eat the Storms – The Podcast – Episode 1”
