Podcast episodes
If you’re new to the podcast, start with Episode 1: Welcome to A Mouthful of Air. It introduces the show and suggests some ways to get the most out of it.
The links below will take to you to all the podcast episodes released so far – with audio recordings and full transcripts, including the text of the poems.
There’s a new episode every other Tuesday – subscribe via Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts or your favourite app to make sure you never miss an episode.
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Welcome to A Mouthful of Air
In Episode 1 of the podcast Mark McGuinness introduces the show and suggests some ways you can get the most out of it.
Episode archive
95. The Disciple by Oscar Wilde
94. Winter Swimming by Laura Blomvall
92. Villain Elle by Sophie Hannah
91. A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift
90. Letter to My Mother by Suzannah V. Evans
89. From An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
87. Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
86. Recalling Brigid by Orna Ross
85. From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
84. Alchemy by Gregory Leadbetter
83. Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son by Sir Walter Raleigh
82. Findspot Unknown by Peter Gizzi
81. From The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
80. Stephanie Burt reads Poly Beach House by Tonee Mae Moll
79. Daedalus and Icarus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (tr. Arthur Golding)
77. Self Portrait 1981 / Self Portrait of the Poet as Cassius Clay 1982 by Nick Makoha
76. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
75. A Modest Love by Sir Edward Dyer
74. Empathy by A. E. Stallings
73. From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Emilia Lanyer
72. Reddest Red by Z. R. Ghani
71. Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
70. Drinking Ode by Matthew Buckley Smith
69. The Great Fire of London, from Annus Mirabilis by John Dryden
68. Pregnant Teenager and Her Mama by Carrie Etter
67. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
66. Homunculus by the Shore by Luke Palmer
65. Sextain by William Drummond of Hawthornden
64. DIY Sestina: What Would You Ask the Artist? by Terrance Hayes
63. A Crocodile by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
62. ‘you are not in search of’ by Martyn Crucefix
61. The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville
60. The Future of A Mouthful of Air
58. Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 1 by Sir Philip Sidney
57. Bede’s Sparrow by Isobel Dixon
56. ‘As I push the door’ by Harry Man & Endre Ruset
55. Futility by Wilfred Owen
54. From The Triumph of Life by P.B. Shelley
53. Song about putting a bird in a pie by Luke Samuel Yates
52. The Tyger by William Blake
51. In the stillness of his moment, deciding by Tom Sastry
50. For I will consider my cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart
49. The Sanctioned State by Edward Doegar
48. The Windhover by G.M. Hopkins
47. From Iarnród Éireann by Simon Barraclough
46. The Wild Swans at Coole by W.B. Yeats
45. Two Tablespoonfuls by Caleb Parkin
44. Verses upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet
43. From Saffron Jack by Rishi Dastidar
42. I Sing of a Maiden – Anonymous
41. 9th December (Sunday) by Quentin S. Crisp
40. The Sun Rising by John Donne
39. At Peckham Rye by Clare Pollard
38. In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti
37. My Beautiful Comrade from the North by Matthew Caley
36. The Kraken by Alfred Tennyson
34. Kubla Khan by S.T. Coleridge
33. Sentience by Maggie Sawkins
32. From Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
31. The Room Between Us by Denise Saul
30. From Paradise Lost by John Milton
29. The Parting Glass by Ian Duhig
28. From Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
27. Return to the Terminus by Kathy Pimlott
26. From Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
25. The Garden of Gethsemane by Malika Booker
24. Humming-bird by D.H. Lawrence
23. Nothing the hedgerows say by Mark Antony Owen
22. The Unquiet Grave – Anonymous
21. Organza by Selina Rodrigues
20. Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
19. From cante jondo mixtape by Rowan Evans
18. It sifts from Leaden Sieves by Emily Dickinson
17. once a thing is gone, that is the end of it by Kate Ling
14. They Flee from Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt
13. No Tengo Mas by Mick Delap
12. From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
11. Lockdown Sonnet LIX by Jacqueline Saphra
10. The Illusionist by Mark McGuinness
8. Beyond the Last Lamp by Thomas Hardy
7. From The Taxidermist by Shazea Quraishi
6. The Jumblies by Edward Lear
5. How I Hold the World in This Climate Emergency by Cath Drake
4. Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare
2. He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W. B. Yeats
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