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Hosted by Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley · 🇺🇸 US · EN-IE · 98 episodes
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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.
Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley hosts Books for Breakfast (Ireland), a arts show with 98 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Most poets write under their given names – Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Denise Riley, Elizabeth Bishop. Some on the other hand use pseudonyms; there is no such person as Biddy Jenkinson, except in her poe
Send us Fan Mail This year marks the 45th anniversary of Salmon Poetry now based in The Salmon Bookshop and Literary Centre, in Ennistymon, County Clare. We invited poet and critic Ciarán O’Rourke , whose own new collect
Send us Fan Mail Epistolary novels used to be all the rage Think Clarissa , think Dracula , think the more recent We need to talk about Kevin . Last year saw another smash hit epistolary novel, The Correspondent by Virgi
Send us Fan Mail On today's show we travel down the road to Carlow University Pittsburgh's MFA in Creative Writing Program during its annual June residency at Trinity College, Dublin where we have been invited to intervi
Send us Fan Mail On today's episode we visit 11 Parnell Square in Dublin for the launch of Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann's restored headquarters. We hear about the new performance spaces, education resources and Seamus He
Send us Fan Mail On today’s show we talk to Joseph Woods , director of the Strokestown Poetry Festival about what this year's programme will offer poetry lovers this May Bank Holiday weekend in Strokestown House. Ands we
Send us Fan Mail This morning we talk to Mary Costello about her new novel A Beautiful Loan. My name is Anna, and for some time now, I have been trying to account for certain events in my life – my adult life, that is –
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we go to one of our favourite places in Dublin, Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dawson Street, to interview Cathy Galvin on the occasion of the launch of her collection of poems from Bloodaxe,
Send us Fan Mail We’re back for the first episode of 2026. This week we’re back in Books Upstairs in Dublin to interview Hugo Hamilton about his latest novel, Conversation with the Sea. Fleeing his failed marriage in Ber
Send us Fan Mail Mince pie and Christmas cracker laden, today’s breakfast table is very festive indeed as we celebrate the best of books and cultural events in 2025. To help us celebrate we’ve gathered at our table four
Send us Fan Mail This morning we welcome poet and critic Ciarán O’Rourke to our breakfast table here in Dublin 8. Ciarán has published two collections of poems with Irish Pages Press, The Buried Breath in 2018 and Phanto
Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode we travel to IMMA and the Dublin Book Festival to meet and talk with İlhan Sami Çomak , a Kurdish Turkish poet who has spent almost thirty years imprisoned in Turkey. He was arrested i
Send us Fan Mail On this morning's episode we talk to Ger Reidy about his latest poetry collection, Clay; Liam Carson tells us about the latest edition of IMRAM, the Irish language festival and the increasing visibility
Send us Fan Mail On today’s episode poet and critic Adam Wyeth reviews nine new poetry collections. Under the microscope are Infinity Pool by V ona Groarke ; Belfast Twilight by Liam Carson ; Harbour Doubts by Bebe Ahley
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we invite Colm Tóibín to the breakfast table to discuss his new book A Ship in Full Sail: The Laureate Lectures and Other Writings . The book collects the blogs he wrote during his term a
Send us Fan Mail On this morning's show novelist Henrietta McKervey talks to us about four recent novels: Fair Play by Louise Hegarty, Air by John Boyne, Murder takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman and Long Island Compromis
Send us Fan Mail This episode sees us visiting Dublin's historic United Arts Club where Enda interviews Mary O'Donnell about her latest collection of short stories, Walking Ghosts. Praise for Walking Ghosts 'Each story s
Send us Fan Mail On this episode we drop in to the Carlow University Pittsburgh MFA summer programme in Trinity College, Dublin to interview Sarah Moss about her latest novel, Ripeness . 'Tender and rueful . . . Sarah Mo
Send us Fan Mail On this episode we talk about this year's International Literature Festival Dublin which runs from 16-25 May, and where Enda will be interviewing novelists Gethan Dick and Patrick Holloway . We also talk
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, on Poetry Day, we cross the Atlantic and. breakfast in Miami, where we talk to Cuban American poet Richard Blanco about his Homeland of my Body: New and Selected Poems , a rich, accompli
Colm Toibin
1 appearance on this show
Colm Tóibín
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Moss
1 appearance on this show
Richard Blanco
The Inaugural Poet · NRLA
1 appearance on this show
Tony Curtis
Lead Pastor at Hemet Church of the Nazarene · Metropolitan Housing Coalition
1 appearance on this show
Paul Muldoon
Ireland Professor of Poetry · Trinity College
1 appearance on this show
Claire Power
Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann
1 appearance on this show
Joseph Woods
Strokestown Poetry Festival
1 appearance on this show
Neil Astley
Bloodaxe Books
1 appearance on this show
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