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The 4th episode of Season 8 will air on Saturday 24th February 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Peter Lilly

Peter Lilly is a British Poet who grew up in Gloucester before spending eight years in London studying theology and working with the homeless. He now lives in the South of France with his wife and son, where he concentrates on writing, teaching English, and community building. His debut Collection ‘An Array of Vapour’ is available with TSL publications, and his second collection ‘A Handful of Prayers’ is forthcoming with Wipf & Stock. He also has work forthcoming in the Door is a Jar Magazine, The Hooghly Review, Fare Forward and Foreshadow Magazine. 

Follow Peter on Twitter / X at https://twitter.com/PeterLillyPoems

An Array of Vapour is available at https://tslbooks.uk/product/an-array-of-vapour-peter-lilly/

A Handful of Prayers will be available from https://wipfandstock.com/

Nancy Murphy

Nancy Murphy is a Los Angeles based writer and author of the poetry chapbook, “The Space Carved by the Sharpness of Your Absence”  (Gyroscope Press, December 2022). The poems in this book were described by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Robert Olen Butler as “Pitch perfect and brave in their wisdom.” She was a winner in the Aurora Poetry contest in Winter 2020. Previous poetry publications include SWWIM, Sheila-Na-Gig, glassworks, The Ekphrastic Review, The Baltimore Review, and many others. A long time volunteer at WriteGirl, Nancy has mentored teens through writing workshops and in the juvenile detention system. She earned a BA from Union College in Schenectady NY. More at website, including social media links,

Find out more about Nancy at her website https://nancymurphywriter.com/

Her collection is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Space-Carved-Sharpness-Your-Absence/dp/1736782037/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11B208WZA30HM&keywords=the+space+carved+by+the+sharpness+of+your+absence&qid=1669939429&sprefix=%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-1

Michael Dooley

Michael Dooley’s poems have appeared in Banshee, the Irish Independent, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, and online at RTE Culture. In 2023, he was the featured poet in the summer edition of The Stinging Fly, and read at Listowel Writers’ Week. His debut collection will be published by Doire Press in 2024.  

Follow Michael on Twitter / X at https://twitter.com/mld_lk

Find our more about Michael at https://michaeldooleypoetry.com/

In Spring We Turned To Water will be available from https://www.doirepress.com/

Sue Finch

Behind the Storms featured guest

Sue Finch’s first collection, ‘Magnifying Glass’, was published in 2020. Her work has also appeared in a number of online magazines. She loves the coast, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. He new collection, Welcome to the Museum of a Life, will be published by Black Eyes Publishing UK later this year.

Follow Sue on Twitter / X at https://twitter.com/soopoftheday

For more about Sue check out https://suefinch.co.uk/

For Sue’s podcast Singing as the Darkness Lifts, on Castbox https://castbox.fm/channel/Singing-as-the-Darkness-Lifts-id6014882?country=us

Black Eyes Publishing link https://www.blackeyespublishinguk.co.uk/

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 2^nd full collection is due out in May 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…

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