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A longer version of this episode first aired on Saturday 24th February 2024. This version features the Behind the Storms chat with Sue Finch, along with Sue reading some of her poetry. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly.

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, was published by Black Eyes Publishing UK earlier this year.

Follow Sue on 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 2nd collection, Back from Away, was published by Turas Press, May 2024.

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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