Soporific is a sleep podcast hosted by The Dreamcatcher.
Each episode begins with a guided breathing routine, followed by poetry read aloud at a slow, deliberate pace -- written to carry you from wherever you are to wherever sleep is.
Series One -- ten episodes of timeless poetry -- is available now.
Series Two: The Autumn Nights follows the season from the last warmth of summer through the harvest, the changing of the light, the first cold, and the long dark to the Winter Solstice on 21st December 2026. New episodes every two weeks from 1st September.
Poetry by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Hardy, Edward Thomas, Housman, Rossetti, Blake, Clare, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Charlotte Mew, Yeats, and original poems by Darcee M Thatcher.
Free. Always.
The last warmth is going — quietly, without drama. An original poem by Darcee M Thatcher marks the turning point, with Edward Thomas, Blake, Hardy, and Rossetti reading for the acceptance of what comes next.
1 Oct 2026
The Shortening Days
The evenings are arriving earlier. Hardy, Charlotte Mew, Rossetti, Blake, and Clare read for the world drawing in — not as loss, but as something more intimate.
1 Oct 2026
The Light Is Changing
Something has changed — not the temperature, but the light. The pivot episode of Series Two, anchored by Hardy’s Darkling Thrush and an original poem for the October afternoon.
15 Sept 2026
The Full Harvest
The anchor poem of Series Two arrives. Keats’s To Autumn has been waiting since Episode One — now the season has earned it. Hardy, Rossetti, Blake, and Clare complete the harvest.
15 Sept 2026
The Golden Hour
The light is doing something different this week — lower, more golden, landing at an angle it did not have in August. Keats, Hardy, Tennyson, and Rossetti read for the golden hour of the year.
1 Sept 2026
The Last Heat
The summer is not quite finished. The Dreamcatcher opens Series Two in the last warmth of late September — Keats, Tennyson, Clare, and Blake read for the season that has not yet turned.
1 Sept 2026
The Harvest Begins
The fields are being brought in. An original poem from Darcee M Thatcher, alongside Blake, Wordsworth, Clare, and Rossetti — a night of fullness before the long quiet begins.
5 Aug 2026
Homecoming
We have been on a long journey together. Ten nights. Ten thresholds. And each time, you came back. Tonight is a homecoming. A return to something essential. To the feeling that beneath all the nights and all the words, there is something that was always there. Yeats, The Dreamcatcher and the deep heart's core.
That's Series One complete. Thank you for listening to all ten nights. Soporific Series Two: The Autumn Nights arrives in September 2026. Ten new episodes written specifically for the season when the world turns inward.
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5 Aug 2026
The Long Meadow
Tonight we are walking home. Along a lane worn into the land by all the feet that have followed it before yours. The light is low and golden. Somewhere, a bird. The voices tonight noticed things most people walk past. Small things, observed with tremendous tenderness. Edward Thomas and A.E. Housman. An English night.
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29 Jul 2026
The Waking Dream
There is a state between sleeping and waking that has no good name. The place where thoughts stop being logical and start being something else — connected not by reason but by feeling. That is where we are going tonight. Edgar Allan Poe. The border between sleeping and waking.
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29 Jul 2026
The Open Road
Imagine you have been walking all day. Not a difficult walk — a good one. The kind where your thoughts untangle themselves without your trying. Tonight you don't need to go anywhere. Let his walking become your stillness. Let his openness become your rest. Walt Whitman. The road that leads here.
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22 Jul 2026
Ancient Light
There are things older than language. The sense that we are not alone. That there are forces — call them what you will — that tend to things. That notice. Tonight's voices come from a place that believed this completely. William Blake and Christina Rossetti. Lambs, angels, and the long quiet.
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22 Jul 2026
The Quiet Hours
Some hours belong to no one else. The hours after everything has quietened. Where you are alone with whatever you actually are, stripped of the roles and plans and unfinished business of being a person. Tonight's words are small and precise. Each one contains exactly one true thing. Emily Dickinson. The interior world.
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14 Jul 2026
Stars And Silence
Tonight the sky is clear. Imagine it above you — dark, enormous, scattered with light so old it barely remembers where it came from. Keats and Shelley guide you there. Two poets who spent their lives reaching for something so beautiful it almost hurts. Close your eyes if they aren't already. And look up.
7 Jul 2026
Episode 2 - Nature's Quietude
Tonight we step outside. Into open air and long light — the particular silence that exists only where the human world hasn't quite arrived. Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth guide you there. Voices from another century, speaking of things that haven't changed. Allow yourself to feel held.
7 Jul 2026
Episode 3 - The Sea At Night
Tonight, somewhere beneath you, there is water. There is something in the rhythm of the sea the body already understands. The breath in. The breath out. The long pull and release. Matthew Arnold and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Let the words wash over you — without needing to catch them. Free to listen. Always.
7 Jul 2026
Episode 1 - The Dreamcatcher's First Night
Tonight we go inward. Not into the great distances of the universe — but into the small, interior world. The one that exists only when the outer one falls quiet. The Dreamcatcher's first night. Original poetry, written in the quiet hours for exactly this moment. Free to listen. Always.
2 Jul 2026
An Introduction
Before we begin. My name is The Dreamcatcher. This is Soporific — a sleep companion for the restless mind. We breathe together once. Then I read you eight lines of Yeats. Enough to show you what we do here. Ten episodes are waiting. Thirty minutes each. A breathing routine, then poetry read aloud in the quiet hours. Free to listen. Always.
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