the anxious poet’s podcast

The poem can be found in A Night Sea Journey - available to buy at www.adriangrscott.com  along with my Latest album in collaboration with Andy Selman called Made In Sheffield 

The album Made In Sheffield can be streamed on Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/album/made-in-sheffield/1566765813  or Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/5DJlxhG5Oiz59kKK8Q4fy2   More information about the poems and the album are to be found at www.adriangrscott.com  David Whyte's poem The House of Belonging can be found at https://davidwhyte.com  

Ray is an Integrative  psychotherapist working in Rathmines Co. Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. He can be found at https://awarenesscounselling.ie/ray-tonge-counsellor   The Poem used is by John O'Donohue and can be punt in his brilliant book Benedictus and can purchased at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Benedictus-Book-Blessings-John-ODonohue/dp/0593058623/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr...

The Poems used in this podcast are Poem in October by Dylan Thomas, The Boy Within from The Call of the Unwritten, Arriving In Magic from the collection of the same name, A Raven in my Sleep (as yet unpublished), you can find it on the front page of my website though, Advice to Myself in Anxiety from A Night Sea Journey, A Bigger Picture from Arriving in Magic and finally Birdsong on Long Line (as...

Martins in the Eves is, as yet unpublished, you can obtain a copy from Adrian - contact him through his website www.adriangrscott.com   The music is by Andy Selman 

In this episode the Anxious Poet looks at the phenomenon of family and what we inherit from them, especially our parents. He explores how it is up to us to appreciate just what has been passed on to us both in terms of our character and how the events of our parents lives shaped them and in turn shape us. The poems used are 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London' by Dylan Tho...

The first piece of music is by Enya from her 2008 And Winter Came Album. The first poem The Crib at Greccio is, as yet unpublished. The final poem Tofts Lane can be seen with all the others in my Exhibition - A Sheffield Advent at https://www.whirlowspiritualitycentre.org/a-sheffield-advent  you can also view the film I made for the exhibition there too.  Thanks again to Andy Selman for the musica...

This poem can be found in an earlier version in Adrian's book Arriving in Magic. If you want to see the version used in this podcast go to Adrian's Blog at www.adriangrscott.com  

Aravaipa Canyon - the poem used in this Podcast is as yet unpublished. If you want a copy you can contact Adrian through his website www.adriangrscott.com   See https://aravaiparanch.com  for more about the ranch and the canyon. The directors cut of Dances With Wolves is available on DVD as a three disc special edition. For more on Animals in dreams and as symbols see Barbara Hannah The Archetypal...

This piece comes from a collection I am writing about my life and experience of the city of Sheffield. I hope to publish this in 2021 alongside a series of photographs. The music is by Andy Selman. The article mentioned can be found at https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/aug/21/tragic-story-of-sheffield-park-hill-bridge  The production of Standing at the Sky's Edge was at the Crucible and they...

This poem is taken from my collection entitled Arriving In Magic and is available on Amazon or from my website adriangrscott.com  Thanks to Andy Selman for the musical accompaniment. 

Fiona Watson is a Mindfulness Practitioner in Sheffield. You can find more about her at  http://www.fionawatsonmindfulness.com  The poems used are Easdale Tarn from A Night Sea Journey, Haste from Arriving in Magic, www.adriangrscott.com  The Wendell Berry Poem is called The Peace of Wild Things and can be found in his selected poems. Many thanks to Fiona for joining me. The conversation was recor...

The poem Silence is to be found in Adria's Book Arriving In Magic. The Music used was composed for the piece by Andy Selman - local Sheffield musician. Adrian and Andy are beginning to collaborate on music and poetry projects. They are hoping to produce an album of poems and music in the future and (when things are safe) to do some live gigs. www.adriangrscott.com  

A slightly longer mini-ish Poemcast for my birthday - reflecting the time of lockdown we are living through. Thanks to my old friend Graham H Nash for the music. The poem used is from my latest collection - A Night Sea Journey available from www.adriangrscott.com  

The poems read in this Podcast are The Real Truth from The Call of the Unwritten by Adrian Scott, Incertus by Seamus Heaney, from New and Selected Poems 1966-1987, A Dream of Trains by Pablo Neruda from Five Decades :Poems 1925-1970, Iron Hans by Anne Sexton from Transformations, an unpublished poem called A Moment in Each Day by Adrian Scott, and Taking Stock from The Call of the Unwritten by Adr...

The Music is called Priveghiati si va Rugati by Angela Gheorghiu, the Romanian National Choir "Madrigal-Marin Constantin", the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ion Marin. The title means watch and pray. This is often chanted on Holy Thursday after the service and remembers Jesus in the garden of gethsemane and his words to the his friends as they struggled to stay awake. 

The second Poemcast, a short period of poetic reverie, for as William Blake says "There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find Nor can his Watch Fiends find it, but the Industrious find This Moment & it multiply. & when it once is found It renovates every Moment of the Day if rightly placed." (Milton, Plate 35:42-3) In this difficult and frighteningly uncertain time we have not only to fac...

This is a new initiative for the Anxious Poet's Podcast - Poemcasts, a short sharing of one poem as a way of pausing in a busy day and opening ourselves up to another economy. To the slow work of reverie, of musing and absorption. This is the poem Falling from the book Arriving in Magic, to be found on Amazon or at www.adriangrscott.com   The Music is by a good friend of mine Graham Nash (not of C...

This episode explores the twin phenomena of vulnerability and resilience. Adrian uses five poems, Keel Hauled from The Call of The Unwritten, All At Sea from A Night Sea Journey, When Will You Be ready and There is a Certain Kind for Vow from Arriving in Magic, House Martins in the Eves is a new piece. The rest are available on www.adriangrscott.com  Brenee Brown's work can be found at   https://b...

In this episode Adrian speaks of Christmas and the Solstice Season. With his own poetry and that of Charles Causley, Kristian Evans, and Dylan Thomas he leads us into the season of the Holly King and the dark of winter. 

In this podcast Adrian is working with the poetry of Dylan Thomas the welsh prophet who lived in the middle part of the 20th Century. Using his own and Dylan's poetry he explores the ways in which we wrestle with the dark and the light, with life and death, with innocence and experience. The pain we experience that creates many of our mental health issues is faced, both head on and avoided with ad...

In this episode Adrian explores the life of someone who was and is a great friend to him in his travails with anxiety and mental health issues. Although Francis of Assisi lived 800 years ago Adrian shows just how relevant his life is now. Especially when he is stripped of some of the religiosity and hagiographic accretions that have but up around him over the years. The poems come from Adrian's la...

Helen Mort's latest novel is Black Car Burning published by Chatto & Windus. Her website is  http://www.helenmort.com  She read Mountain and The Fear from No Map Could Show Them again published by Chatto and Windus. I read The Tremor of Silk and Rivelin Valley Vespers from A Night Sea Journey published by Authorhouse, The book by Sarah Wilson is First, We Make the Beast Beautiful published by Corg...

The first piece I recite is the title poem from The Call of the Unwritten available on Amazon or from my website www.adriangrscott.com  The second poem 'A Fairytale Ending?' is, as yet, unpublished.  Email me at adriangrscott@me.com  for a copy. The piece of the prelude is available at  https://wordandsilence.com/2018/05/24/william-wordsworth-need-i-say-dear-friend-that-to-the-brim-my-heart-was-fu...

Adrian explores the Vincent Cycle of poems from his last collection - A Night Sea Journey. Drawing out the implications for our mental health and creativity he delves into the life of this solitary, visionary, trouble and prolific artist. The films mentioned are At Eternity's Gate 2019 - Loving Vincent 2018 - Exhibitions on Screen  https://exhibitiononscreen.com/films/vincent-van-gogh-a-new-way-of...