
387: A Mouthful of Air: Poetry as a Spoken Artform - Interview with Mark McGuinness
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The Classic Poems
The first poem istat by w b. Yates, which gave the show its title: "I made it out of a mouthful of air" The poems that be come those poems that i carry around with me all have that similar structure where there's like the action in the first part, and then you're sort of suspended above it in the second part. In terms of the classic poems, i do think about the sequence that there's always a reason, ofte reason why i'm choosing it. So then you now we did yates, and then addid shakespeare next, because you can't really go wrong with a bit of sh Shakespeare.
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