Books for Breakfast

Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley
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Books for Breakfast

A podcast focussing on fiction and poetry hosted by poets and writers Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley. Also features the Toaster Challenge where guest writers are given the time it takes to make toast to talk about a book that has resonated with them. 

  1. 71: Keith Payne builds a boat and translates Luisa Castro; 2024 highlights

    31/12/2024

    71: Keith Payne builds a boat and translates Luisa Castro; 2024 highlights

    Send us a textOn today’s show, the last of 2024, we talk to Keith Payne about his recent boat building and poem writing project. Currachs and naomhógs are among the only sea craft built upside down, and the expertise dates back generations. Keith learned all of this and a. lot more when he found himself working on a Dunfanaghy currach over 16 weeks. He was Cork City Library eco-poet in residence from 2022 to 2023 when he was drawn to the work of Meitheal Mara. He learned about carpenter...

    1 giờ 7 phút
  2. 70: Books of the Year with Adam Wyeth and Henrietta McKervey

    19/12/2024

    70: Books of the Year with Adam Wyeth and Henrietta McKervey

    Send us a textJoin us for a lively discussion of some of the best books published this year. At the breakfast table to discuss their poetry and fiction choices are poet Adam Wyeth and novelist Henrietta McKervey. Plenty of stocking filler ideas here, and Peter and Enda also get to mention some of their own favourite books of the year. This is a double espresso and multiple pastry episode, so get that pot on the stove and get the earbuds in!This episode is supported by a Project Award from the...

    50 phút
  3. 69: The Amergin Step, An Exploration in the Imagination of Iveragh

    12/12/2024

    69: The Amergin Step, An Exploration in the Imagination of Iveragh

    Send us a textThis episode sees us back in Books Upstairs in Dublin’s D’Olier Street again. This time we’ve come for a conversation between Paddy Bushe and poet and academic Ben Keatinge on the occasion of the Dublin launch of The Amergin Step: An Exploration in the Imagination of Iveragh. The book is named after the famous poem that Leabhar Gabhála Éireann or The Book of Invasions tells us was recited by the poet and lawmaker of the Gaelic Milesian people, as he stepped ashore in Kerry after...

    37 phút
  4. 68: Oksana Makysmchuk, Still City: Diary of an Invasion

    21/11/2024

    68: Oksana Makysmchuk, Still City: Diary of an Invasion

    Send us a textAs we write it is 1002 days since the fullscale invasion of Ukraine by Russia, but over ten years since Putin first seized Crimea and sponsored insurrection in the Donbas. And even longer that he has sought to meddle in Ukrainian affairs. So we thought we would mark those suffering filled days and years by talking to Oksana Maksymchuk whose Still City: Diary of an Invasion, published by Carcanet Press, came out this year. Oksana is also translator and co editor of Words for War:...

    27 phút
  5. 67: IMRAM festival, Kelly Michels' American Anthem

    31/10/2024

    67: IMRAM festival, Kelly Michels' American Anthem

    Send us a textFirst up on today's show, I chat with Liam Carson, who is back again with another episode of the Irish language Festival, IMRAM. And we hear from Kelly Michels, whose Forward Prize shortlisted debut collection, American Anthem, published by Gallery Press this year, focuses on the tragedies both personal and national, of the opioid epidemic and its devastating effects of addiction and of gun violence in America, where the poet grew up. We talk to Kelly about growing up in t...

    54 phút
  6. 66: Mícheál McCann and Katie Donovan

    03/10/2024

    66: Mícheál McCann and Katie Donovan

    Send us a textToday's show features conversation and poems from two poets with new collections: Katie Donovan, whose collection May Swim, is published by Bloodaxe Books, and Micheál McCann, whose debut collection Devotion, is published by Gallery Press.Both poets take on the Toaster Challenge, this time a Toaster Poem Challenge. Micheál' choce is Louise Glück's 'Sunset' from her collection The Wild Iris, while Katie chooses Pascale Petit's ‘Jaguar Girl.’ from Mama Amazonica.Intro/outro music:...

    39 phút
  7. 65: Christine Dwyer Hickey, Alba de Cespedes, Catullus

    05/09/2024

    65: Christine Dwyer Hickey, Alba de Cespedes, Catullus

    Send us a textWe're back from the summer break and in conversation with Christine Dwyer Hickey, who was the subject of our very first Books for Breakfast podcast. This time around we're talking to her about her latest novel Our London Lives, just published this week. We also give ourselves a double Toaster Challenge. Enda talks about Alba de Cespedes' Roman novel Forbidden Notebook, while Peter stays in Rome but goes back 2000 years to the last years of the Republic and the poet Catullus, tw...

    52 phút
  8. 64: Summer journals, Tessa Hadley, Noel Monahan

    06/06/2024

    64: Summer journals, Tessa Hadley, Noel Monahan

    Send us a textOn today's edition, the last before our summer break, we look at new editions of Poetry Ireland Review and The Stinging Fly. We feature recordings of three poets published in Poetry Ireland Review: Valentine Jones, Patrick Chapman and Shakeema Edwards, and we also feature a poem by Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin from The Stinging Fly. Enda discusses the novels of Tessa Hadley, who also has an. essay in The Stinging Fly, and we travel to Cavan for the launc...

    41 phút
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A podcast focussing on fiction and poetry hosted by poets and writers Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley. Also features the Toaster Challenge where guest writers are given the time it takes to make toast to talk about a book that has resonated with them. 

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  • Nhà sáng tạo
    Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley
  • Năm hoạt động
    2020 - 2024
  • Tập
    72
  • Xếp hạng
    Sạch
  • Bản quyền
    © 2025 Books for Breakfast
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    Books for Breakfast

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