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This episode of Season 9 aired on Saturday 19th October 2024. It is produced and hosted by Damien B. Donnelly. Below are details and links to the guest stars…

Katie Montagna

Katie Montagna is a Dublin-based writer originally from California, USA, where she taught literature and art history. Her work includes young adult and historical fiction. She is a founding member of the Baldoyle Writers’ Group. Katie is writing her first mystery novel.

Peter Lilly

Peter Lilly is a Best of the Net nominated poet who grew up in Gloucestershire. After studying theology and working with the homeless in London, he moved to the South of France in 2014. He lives in a rural village with his wife Silje, and son Gabriel, where he concentrates on writing, community development and English teaching. Today he is reading from his second collection ‘A Handful of Prayers’ which is available with Wipf & Stock. His debut Collection ‘An Array of Vapour’ is available with TSL publications.

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Jackie Lynam

Jackie Lynam is from Dublin. Her poems have been published in Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry, The Covid Verses (Paddler Press) The Bangor Literary Journal, Honest Ulsterman, North West Words and Boyne Berries. She has been shortlisted for the 2021 Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award, The 2018 Bangor Poetry Competition and Write by the Sea Competition. She has also written non-fiction pieces for the Irish Independent and RTÉ Radio One’s Sunday Miscellany.

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Behind the Storms

David Hanlon, featured guest

David Hanlon is a poet from Cardiff, Wales. You can find his work online in many magazines and journals, including Rust & Moth, Barren Magazine, The Lumiere Review & trampset. His first full-length collection Dawn’s Incision was recently published with Icefloe Press.

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Dawn’s Incision is available from Ice Floe 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 was published on the 8th May 2024 with Turas Press

The Storms journal is available here

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You can purchase his pamphlets and collections at his website

Backing music for Eat the Storms is from Purple Planet Royalty Free Music

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