A Mouthful of Air: Poetry with Mark McGuinness
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Poems to take your breath away. Hear contemporary poets reading their poems and talking about their inspiration and writing process. Plus Mark McGuinness reading classic poems and sharing his thoughts on what makes them great.
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DIY Sestina: What Would You Ask the Artist? by Terrance Hayes
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Nov 7, 2023
A Crocodile by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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Oct 5, 2023
‘you are not in search of’ by Martyn Crucefix
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Sep 30, 2023
The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville
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Sep 12, 2023
The Future of A Mouthful of Air
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Aug 15, 2023
The Larder by Judy Brown
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Aug 1, 2023
Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 1 by Sir Philip Sidney
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Jul 18, 2023
Bede’s Sparrow by Isobel Dixon
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Jul 5, 2023
‘As I push the door’ by Harry Man and Endre Ruset
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Jun 28, 2023
Futility by Wilfred Owen
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Jun 6, 2023
From The Triumph of Life by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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May 23, 2023
Song about putting a bird in a pie by Luke Samuel Yates
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May 9, 2023
The Tyger by William Blake
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Apr 25, 2023
In the stillness of his moment, deciding by Tom Sastry
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Apr 11, 2023
‘For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry’ by Christopher Smart
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Mar 28, 2023
The Sanctioned State by Edward Doegar
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Mar 14, 2023
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Feb 28, 2023
From Iarnród Éireann by Simon Barraclough
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Feb 14, 2023
The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats
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Jan 31, 2023
Two Tablespoonfuls by Caleb Parkin
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Jan 17, 2023
Verses upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet
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Jan 3, 2023
From Saffron Jack by Rishi Dastidar
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Dec 20, 2022
I Sing of a Maiden – Anonymous
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Dec 6, 2022
9th December (Sunday) by Quentin S. Crisp
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Nov 22, 2022
The Sun Rising by John Donne
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Nov 8, 2022
At Peckham Rye by Clare Pollard
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Oct 25, 2022
In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti
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Oct 11, 2022
My Beautiful Comrade from the North by Matthew Caley
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Sep 27, 2022
The Kraken by Alfred Tennyson
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Sep 13, 2022
Ə [Schwa] by Paul Blake
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Aug 30, 2022
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Aug 16, 2022
Sentience by Maggie Sawkins
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Aug 2, 2022
From Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
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Jul 19, 2022
The Room Between Us by Denise Saul
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Jul 5, 2022
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Jun 21, 2022
The Parting Glass by Ian Duhig
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Jun 7, 2022
From Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
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May 24, 2022
Return to the Terminus by Kathy Pimlott
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May 10, 2022
From Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
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Apr 26, 2022
The Garden of Gethsemane by Malika Booker
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Apr 12, 2022
Humming-bird by D. H. Lawrence
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Mar 29, 2022
Nothing the hedgerows say by Mark Antony Owen
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Mar 15, 2022
The Unquiet Grave – Anonymous
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Mar 1, 2022
Organza by Selina Rodrigues
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Feb 15, 2022
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
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Feb 2, 2022
From cante jondo mixtape by Rowan Evans
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Jan 18, 2022
It sifts from Leaden Sieves by Emily Dickinson
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Jan 4, 2022
once a thing is gone, that is the end of it by Kate Ling
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Dec 21, 2021
The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
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Dec 7, 2021
The Lilies by Mona Arshi
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Nov 23, 2021
They Flee from Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt
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Nov 9, 2021
No Tengo Mas by Mick Delap
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Oct 25, 2021
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Oct 12, 2021
Lockdown Sonnet LIX by Jacqueline Saphra
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Sep 28, 2021
The Illusionist by Mark McGuinness
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Sep 14, 2021
Metamorphosis by Dom Bury
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Aug 31, 2021
Beyond the Last Lamp by Thomas Hardy
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Aug 17, 2021
From The Taxidermist by Shazea Quraishi
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Aug 3, 2021
The Jumblies by Edward Lear
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Jul 23, 2021
How I Hold the World in This Climate Emergency by Cath Drake
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Jul 23, 2021
Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare
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Jul 20, 2021
Eggs by Mimi Khalvati
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Jul 18, 2021
He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved by W.B. Yeats
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Jul 12, 2021
Welcome to A Mouthful of Air
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