Mark McGuinness

Poet. Coach for creatives. Poetry podcast: @amouthfulofair Poetry site: 21st Century Creative Podcast:

[Mark McGuinness @markmcguinness]

Lovely to wake up and discover @amouthfulofair is one of the 9 best podcasts for poetry lovers, according to @Pod_Review :)

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

Well this is nice. A Mouthful of Air is one of the 9 Best Podcasts for Poetry Lovers according to @Pod_Review

Thank you @af_orr for the lovely review, and to all the guest poets and @ace_national for helping with the funding!

https://t.co/gRNj8gGTVb

[Mark McGuinness @markmcguinness]

It was showtime in five minutes… and the stage was underwater.

What happened next was one of the most extraordinary things I've seen in 30 years of coaching.

https://t.co/MaUinEmuHs

[Mark McGuinness @markmcguinness]

@M_daizen_1020 どうもありがとうございます前田様！

[Mark McGuinness @markmcguinness]

‘I think Bowie would be in the studio playing with AI, trying it out, testing it, trying to break it – looking for its limits, for the edges, the new worlds it would help him discover and explore.’

https://t.co/pPZos7ukgc

#CreativeProfessionals #CreativeEconomy

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘I have always loved reading and wanted to write the kind of literary works where the structure is just beautifully elegant, perfectly balanced.’

@sophiehannahCB1 on ‘Villain Elle’ from Work Experience (Carcanet)

Listen: https://t.co/JiffWOBbEO
#poetry #villanelle

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘There’s a clear link between my obsession with metrical rhyming poetry and my obsession with crime fiction... And the link is an obsession with structure.’

@sophiehannahCB1 on ‘Villain Elle’ from Work Experience (Carcanet)

Listen: https://t.co/dLX9maLWHi
#poetry

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

This month on the podcast, @sophiehannahCB1 reads and discusses ‘Villain Elle’ from Work Experience (Carcanet)

Listen: https://t.co/uM3D5pd40L
#poetry #villanelle

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘I only now write poetry when an idea lands in my head as if by magic and demands to be written.’

@sophiehannahCB1 on ‘Villain Elle’ from Work Experience (Carcanet)

Listen: https://t.co/ccZnkUAnQN
#poetry #villanelle

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘I detect an irony in this poem that I believe even Swift was unaware of, and I’d like to share that with you.’

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/3AhhcE1iDs

#poetry

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘Saints are also mythological people! Some of them are historical figures who’ve been mythologized. I just wanted to go back in and do my own exploration.’ ~ @Orna_ross

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/GT6EYNNSPk

#poetry #hastings #Brigid

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‘I mean, really, Dean Swift? Is this necessary? Is it Christian? It's undeniably clever and sharp. But it's almost unspeakably nasty.’

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/jQczlMbTWb

#poetry

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘I once tried to read a biography of Swift and I gave up, not because it wasn’t well-written, but because he was such insufferable company.’

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/MYQEchx078

#poetry

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘Coleridge is extending the ballad into a more literary form, but he’s not over-elaborating. He sticks to the simplicity, the starkness, that is at the heart of the ballad form.’

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/ZiYWSrlt8A

#poetry #coleridge #ancientmariner

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘If you thought poetry was all sweetness and light, daffodils and rainbows, sublime visions and declarations of undying love, then I’m sorry to disappoint you.’

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/w4Bq4ufJpD

#poetry

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

This month on the podcast: ‘A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General’ by Jonathan Swift

Listen to the episode: https://t.co/xtfBzkcsA0

#poetry

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘The letters are like praise poems really. They’re just intended to celebrate these people.’

@SuzannahVEvans on ‘Letter to My Mother’ from Under the Blue (@BloomsburyBooks)

Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/6MMft6WLum
#poetry

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‘We are passing through. It is a reminder of our mortality and our houses often way outlive us.’

@timiswriting on ‘Occupied’ from Dark Angels (Paekakariki Press) https://t.co/ztspl9wt3Z
#poetry

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‘So what happens with a shorter line is that you can take a long thought, a long idea, and by breaking it in this way, it creates momentum. It creates rhythm. It becomes percussive.’

Peter Gizzi on ‘Findspot Unknown’ from Fierce Elegy (@PenguinUKBooks)
https://t.co/ddSAnVdn3O

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘It sounds weird to say that postcards are a big part of my life, but they kind of are.’

@SuzannahVEvans on ‘Letter to My Mother’ from Under the Blue (@BloomsburyBooks)

Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/vi83S364tz
#poetry

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“Creativity is more than inspiration. It’s also more than perspiration. It requires your critical faculty and artistic taste.”

Why Your Taste Matters More than Ever in an AI World https://t.co/WlKtyz1uck #AIcreativity

[A Mouthful of Air @amouthfulofair]

‘The book is really interested in those doubled states where maybe there's sort of deep despair, but also real joy, or anger but delight.’

@SuzannahVEvans on ‘Letter to My Mother’ from Under the Blue (@BloomsburyBooks)

Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/0CJQVi4yu4
#poetry