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The 5th episode of Season 8 will air on Saturday 9th March 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Katherine Meehan

Katherine Meehan is a writer from North Carolina. Her work has appeared at The Kenyon Review, Magma, Bath Magg, and other journals. Her first collection, Dame Julie Andrews’ Botched Vocal Cord Surgery has just been published with Two Rivers Press. She’s a co-organiser of Reading’s Poets’ Cafe and is currently researching tarot card ekphrasis for a practice-based PhD. 

Follow Katherine on Twitter / X at https://twitter.com/kmeehan

Dame Julie Andrews’ Botched Vocal Cord Surgery is available from Two Rivers Press https://tworiverspress.com/shop/dame-julie-andrews-botched-vocal-cord-surgery/

Find out More about Katherine at her website https://www.katherine-meehan.com/

Luís Costa

Luís Costa (he/they) is a queer poet featured in Queerlings, Stone of Madness, Roi Fainéant, Sage Cigarettes, Boats Against The Current and elsewhere, with forthcoming work in Anthropocene and in the anthology He/She/They/Us (Macmillan, 2024). His debut pamphlet Two Dying Lovers Holding a Cat was published by Fourteen Poems in November 2023. He holds a PhD from Goldsmiths and lives in London with the ghost of his cat Pierożek

Follow Luís on Twitter at https://twitter.com/captainiberia

His collection Two Dying Lovers Holding a Cat is available from Fourteen Poems https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/two-dying-lovers-holding-a-cat

Brian Kirk

Brian Kirk has published two poetry collections with Salmon Poetry, After The Fall (2017) and Hare’s Breath (2023). His poem “Birthday” won the Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2018. His short fiction chapbook It’s Not Me, It’s You won the Southword Fiction Chapbook Competition and was published by Southword Editions in 2019. He is a recipient of Professional Development and Agility Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. His novel Riverrun was chosen as a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair 2022 and was shortlisted for the Spotlight First Novel Award 2023. His poetry has been published in the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Abridged, Skylight 47, Crannóg and many others. His poetry has been featured on The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio One, the Words Lightly Spoken Podcast and the Poetry Jukebox installations in Limerick and Derry in 2023 as part of the Poetry As Commemoration strand. Brian has been a guest author and hosted events at literary festivals around the country including Dublin Book Festival, Listowel Writers’ Week, Red Line Book Festival, Cork Short Story Festival, Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Poetry Festival, Belfast Book Festival and Bray Literary Festival. He is a member the Hibernian Writers’ Group

Follow Brian on Twitter / X at https://twitter.com/briankirkwriter

Find our more about Brian at http://briankirkwriter.com/

Hare’s Breath is available from Salmon Poetry https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=601&a=311

Paul Stephenson

Behind the Storms featured guest

Paul Stephenson has three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), written after the November 2015 terrorist attacks; and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017). In 2013/14 he took part in the Jerwood/Arvon mentoring scheme and Aldeburgh Eight, before completing an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) with the Manchester Writing School. In 2018 he co-edited the ‘Europe’ issue of Magma (70). In recent years he has curated Poetry in Aldeburgh. His first collection ‘Hard Drive’ was published by Carcanet in June 2023. Website: paulstep.com / Instagram: paulstep456

Follow Paul on Twitter / X at https://twitter.com/stephenson_pj

For more about Paul check out his website https://paulstep.com/

to buy your copy of Hard Drive head over to Carcanet Press https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2470

Damien B Donnelly, Producer, Host and Poet

Damien B Donnelly is a 48-year-old Irish, adopted, queer writer and podcast producer who spent 23 years living in Paris, Amsterdam, and London working in the fashion industry, returning to Dublin at the end of 2020. 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 Back form Away arrives on the 8th 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/

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