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The 2nd episode of Season 8 will air on Saturday 10th February 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…
Amanda Jane Shannon
Amanda Jane Shannon is a singer songwriter and poet based in County Clare. She has always had a lovely affair with words and songs, as recounted by her mom that she would find little notes all around when she learned to write. Amanda’s love of expression and writing, singing was really nurtured in her early years and in her local Gaelscoil. This has remained part of her lifestyle, be it in subject choices in her degree and embellished upon as she taught English in on conventional styles to her Transition year students. However after the loss of her husband in 2017, Amanda has embraced a slower pace of life and made her writing practices more personal. Dealing with grief and illness she spent more time crafting her own writing rituals which prioritised her writing of poetry and songs. Side by side her music project Phoenix and Wolfe and her poetry have flourished as she writes in English and Irish. She is currently making submissions sharing her heart on her sleeve through her evocative and raw style whilst also editing and preparing her first collection.
Follow Amanda on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/mise_an_feinics/
Oisín Breen
Irish poet, academic, and journalist, Oisín Breen, a Best of the Net Nominee, is published in 103 journals in 20 countries, including in About Place, Door is a Jar, Northern Gravy, North Dakota Quarterly, Books Ireland, The Tahoma Literary Review, La Piccioletta Barca, Decomp, New Critique, and Reservoir Road. Breen’s second collection, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín has just been released by Beir Bua Press. It follows his well received debut, ‘Flowers, All Sorts, in Blossom…’ (Dreich, 2020).
Follow Oisín on Twitter / X on at https://twitter.com/Breen
For more about Oisín check out https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/oisin_breen
Lilies on the Deathbed of Étain is available at Downingfield https://eportal.downingfield.com/index.php/dppl/catalog/book/60
Fred Shrum
Fred Shrum, III is the author of Psalms of the Street Sweeper and Tourist Trap. He is also the EIC of Skyway Journal. An American of Irish descent, Fred was born near Washington, D.C. and grew up in Florida. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of South Florida at Tampa. He enjoys the beach, tacos, music , baseball and all things crime.
Follow Fred on Twitter / X at https://twitter.com/StantonsStache
For more about Fred check out https://fredshrum.wordpress.com/
Susan Richardson
Behind the Storms featured guest
Susan Richardson is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Potter’s Grove Press, and “Tiger Lily” an Ekphrastic Collaboration with artist Jane Cornwell, published by JC Studio Press. Her poetry has appeared in The Storms, Crannog, California Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, and Rust+Moth, among others. She also writes the blog, Stories from the Edge of Blindness, and hosts the podcast, A Thousand Shades of Green.
Follow Susan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Floweringink
For more about Susan check out https://floweringink.com/
Follow Susan’s blog at https://floweringink.wordpress.com/
Find Susan’s literary podcast A Thousand Shades of Green on Spotify
Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet
Damien B Donnelly is a 48-year-old Irish, adopted, gay writer and podcast producer who spent 23 years living in Paris, Amsterdam, and London forking in the fashion industry, returning to Dublin at the end of 2019. He is the host and producer of the poetry podcast Eat the Storms and the editor-in-chief of The Storms, a journal of poetry, prose and 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 published by Hedgehog in August 2022. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, both online and in print. His 2nd full collection is due out in Spring 2024 with Turas Press
The Storms journal is available at https://eatthestorms.com/the-storm-shop/
He is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/deuxiemepeau and instagram at both @damiboy and @weshallalwayshaveparis
You can purchase his pamphlets and collections at his website https://deuxiemepeaupoetry.com/
Backing music for Eat the Storms is from Purple Planet Royalty Free Music, with thanks…
https://www.purple-planet.com/
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