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 A longer version of this episode first aired on Saturday 9th March 2024. This version features the Behind the Storms chat with Paul Stephenson, along with Paul reading from his poetry collection Hard Drive. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly.

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.

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Buy your copy of Hard Drive at Carcanet Press

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 from Away arrived on the 8th May 2024 with Turas Press

The Storms journal is available here

He is on X and instagram at both @damiboy and @weshallalwayshaveparis

You can purchase his pamphlets and collections at his website

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