A Mouthful of Air: Poetry with Mark McGuinness
Episodes
Recalling Brigid by Orna Ross
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Orna Ross reads and discusses 'Recalling Brigid' from Poet Town.
From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alchemy by Gregory Leadbetter
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Findspot Unknown by Peter Gizzi
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Burt reads Poly Beach House by Tonee Mae Moll
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daedalus and Icarus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated by Arthur Golding
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Desire Path by Jude Rosen
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Self Portrait 1981 Self Portrait of the poet as Cassius Clay 1982 by Nick Makoha
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Modest Love by Sir Edward Dyer
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Empathy by A. E. Stallings
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Emilia Lanyer
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reddest Red by Z. R. Ghani
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drinking Ode by Matthew Buckley Smith
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Great Fire of London, from Annus Mirabilis by John Dryden
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pregnant Teenager and Her Mama by Carrie Etter
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Homunculus by the Shore by Luke Palmer
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sextain by William Drummond of Hawthornden
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DIY Sestina: What Would You Ask the Artist? by Terrance Hayes
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Crocodile by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘you are not in search of’ by Martyn Crucefix
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Future of A Mouthful of Air
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Larder by Judy Brown
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 1 by Sir Philip Sidney
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bede’s Sparrow by Isobel Dixon
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘As I push the door’ by Harry Man and Endre Ruset
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Futility by Wilfred Owen
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From The Triumph of Life by Percy Bysshe Shelley
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Song about putting a bird in a pie by Luke Samuel Yates
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Tyger by William Blake
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the stillness of his moment, deciding by Tom Sastry
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry’ by Christopher Smart
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Sanctioned State by Edward Doegar
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Iarnród Éireann by Simon Barraclough
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two Tablespoonfuls by Caleb Parkin
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Verses upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Saffron Jack by Rishi Dastidar
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I Sing of a Maiden – Anonymous
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
9th December (Sunday) by Quentin S. Crisp
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Sun Rising by John Donne
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At Peckham Rye by Clare Pollard
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My Beautiful Comrade from the North by Matthew Caley
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Kraken by Alfred Tennyson
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ə [Schwa] by Paul Blake
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sentience by Maggie Sawkins
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Room Between Us by Denise Saul
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Parting Glass by Ian Duhig
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Return to the Terminus by Kathy Pimlott
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Garden of Gethsemane by Malika Booker
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Humming-bird by D. H. Lawrence
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing the hedgerows say by Mark Antony Owen
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Unquiet Grave – Anonymous
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Organza by Selina Rodrigues
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From cante jondo mixtape by Rowan Evans
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It sifts from Leaden Sieves by Emily Dickinson
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
once a thing is gone, that is the end of it by Kate Ling
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Lilies by Mona Arshi
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
They Flee from Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No Tengo Mas by Mick Delap
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lockdown Sonnet LIX by Jacqueline Saphra
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Illusionist by Mark McGuinness
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Metamorphosis by Dom Bury
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond the Last Lamp by Thomas Hardy
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From The Taxidermist by Shazea Quraishi
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How I Hold the World in This Climate Emergency by Cath Drake
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eggs by Mimi Khalvati
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W.B. Yeats
18 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to A Mouthful of Air
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas