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.
And if you’d like to read the poems as well as listen, you can have the audio recording plus full episode transcripts delivered to you via email.
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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
34. Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor 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 Jaqueline 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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