colour – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

Cats and Dragons and Brollies, a short video poem

With memories flooding over me these days of travel, even if it was for work, this poem demanded a little recording along with some of my photographic memories of China and Hong Kong and the Ladies Market on a Sunday, jet lagged in the rain…

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Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Recorded Set

On the 8th of January I was the lucky guest of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival live on Zoom with the astounding Catrice Greer and a gorgeous group of poets reading that the Open Mic. Below is the recording of my set, a 25 minute tour of the first 45 years of my life, poetically, with […]

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Dali Distractions – a video poem from my new Stickleback Collection

The below link is to my new short film/poem Dali Distractions on my YouTube Channel which comes from a poem in my Stickleback collection published recently by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. It is available here in the Bookshop, (link below). I made this video at the beach in Rush with The Mother again as camera […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: BETWEEN SUNSET AND REFLECTION

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COMING SOON, STICKLEBACK MIRCO POETRY COLLECTION

Coming later this year will be my Stickleback micro poetry collection, Considering Canvases with Boys, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press which is an exploration of canvases and connections. Here is a little teaser… This is a shortened version of one of the poems from the collection based on Kandinsky’s painting The Ludwigskirche in Munichand […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY TRUNKS TELL TALES

I wonder, as with love and hate,which came first- bark almost buried blindor the sweet lie of this lichen grown over as if you where the breath to its lung,the furrow to its field, the ground to its grass, the remnants of its final stand. All words and photographs by Damien B Donnelly

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Building a Dream into a Poetry Collection – Writing.ie

I am so grateful to http://www.writing.ie who gave me the opportunity to share the story of building my dreams into poetic realities that took Eat the Storms from being penned to being published as my debut collection by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. Below is the link to the multifaceted Irish writer’s information and resource online […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY – EAT THE STORMS CATCHES COLOUR BY A CASTLE

All photographs by Damien B. Donnelly and Storms gave permission to be photographed!

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EAT THE STORMS – THE IRISES OF OUR EYES

This is a collection of 5 short videos made on TikTok (#eatthestorms) for my poem The Irises of our Eyes which I wrote after seeing a Vincent Van Gogh Exhibition at l’Atelier des Lumières, in Paris, last year. I thought it was about the life of Vincent when I wrote it but now I realise […]

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THANK YOU, WITH LOVE FROM EAT THE STORMS

Hello from Eat The Storms, 1 day old today. A huge thank you to everyone for your support, love, light, joy, colour & for embracing my poetry collection. An extra huge thank you Mark Davidson- creator of the Hedgehog Poetry Press, my publisher- I keep waking up but the dream is still here! And also, […]