A Mouthful of Air: Poetry with Mark McGuinness

Arts & Culture Podcasts

Poems to take your breath away. Listen to contemporary poets reading their poems and talking about what went into them. You will also hear Mark McGuinness reading classic poems and sharing his thoughts on what makes them great.

Episodes

Crossword by Lewis Buxton

The Disciple by Oscar Wilde

Winter Swimming by Laura Blomvall

Ecce Puer by James Joyce

Villain Elle by Sophie Hannah

A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift

Letter to My Mother by Suzannah V. Evans

From An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope

Occupied by Tim Rich

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

Recalling Brigid by Orna Ross

From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alchemy by Gregory Leadbetter

Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son

Findspot Unknown by Peter Gizzi

From The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning

Stephanie Burt reads Poly Beach House by Tonee Mae Moll

Daedalus and Icarus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated by Arthur Golding

Desire Path by Jude Rosen

Self Portrait 1981 Self Portrait of the poet as Cassius Clay 1982 by Nick Makoha