20: Christmas Special: Paula Meehan, Tara Bergin, Pessoa's disquiet, Dublin's 20th century buildings, new poems.

Send us Fan MailThis is our bumper Christmas episode, featuring two Toaster Challenges with Tara Bergin and Paula Meehan respectively. Paula also discusses  her recently published As If By Magic: Selected Poems. Tara's Toaster Challenge Choice is Fernando Pesssoa's The Book of Disquiet,translated by Margaret Jull Costa, while Paula chooses  More than concrete blocks: vol. II, 1940–72: Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories.Tara also reads  a poem by Anne Carson and we features some  books we enjoyed this year: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanéain's Collected Poems, the new Bloodaxe anthology Staying Human edited by Neil Astley and Donal Ryan's novel Strange Flowers. The show also features a Christmas poem by James Harpur, and poems from recently published collections Revolutions of Humming Things  by Aoife Reilly, Fox Trousers by Eithne Hand, and Street Light Amber by Noel Duffy.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.Song for Better Times by Martijn de Boer (NiGiD) (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/NiGiD/47949 Ft: smilingcynicArtwork by Freya SirrTo subscribe to Books for Breakfast go to your podcast provider of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google etc) and search for the podcast then hit subscribe or follow, or simply click the appropriate button above. If you want to be alerted when a new episode is released follow the instructions here for iPhone or iPad. For Spotify notifications follow the instructions here.Support the show