Books for Breakfast

About 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.

Publisher

Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley

Category

arts · arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jul 2020

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

99 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   At the Villa Celeste with Elizabeth Wassell Montague

   Send us Fan Mail On today’s show we go to Hodges Figgis in Dublin’s Dawson Street to talk to Elizabeth Wassell Montague about her new novel At the Villa Celeste which she launched at the bookshop recently. The novel is a haunting story of ‎longing, memory, and the fragile architecture of identity. When Clementine Dove begins to ‎fall apart under the weight of familial love and unspoken trauma, she finds herself turning to France for a kind of salvation. In Paris and along the Côte...

2. 

   6 Aug 2026

   97: Billy Ramsell channels Alberto Cenas

   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 poems; Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in order not to offend his family. And of course there is Fernando Pessoa who wrote under a series of heteronymns – Alvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro the keeper of sheep, the artistocratic monarchist Ricardo Reis,...

3. 

   9 Jul 2026

   96: New Salmon poetry; Tess Barry interviewed

   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 collection, Prophetstown, is published by Irish Pages in August, to review four new poetry books from Salmon Poetry. And we talk to US poet Tess Barry, a native of Western Pennsylvania who lives in Pittsburgh, about her debut collection The Marvelous Real, a published by Meadowl...

Who has been a guest on Books for Breakfast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sarah Moss
• Adam Wyeth
• Henrietta McKervey

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

38

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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