the anxious poet’s podcast
the anxious poet’s podcast
Adrian G R Scott
The Anxious Poet is a journey into the world of poetry, anxiety and vulnerability.
Episode 25 - A Big Ol’ Laugh with Eva Scott
The two poems used are Visiting Shawbost and Evacuee from Arriving in Magic. It can be purchased at www.adriangrscott.com Here is Eva's Spotlight page https://www.spotlight.com/2695-6754-9782 
Jul 27, 2022
1 hr 6 min
A Minipoemcast - Stations Around Grasmere
The Wordsworth extract is from The Prelude Book 4. My poem is to be found on my website www.adriangrscott.com  Thanks to Andy Selman for the incidental music. 
Jul 8, 2022
29 min
Episode 24 -’the cherished pattern no one can efface’ -The Poetry of Resistance
There will be excerpts from the cycle of poems entitled 'Some Canvasses' on my website www.adriangrscott.com  The poem 'What shall I do with the body i've been given' i from Osip Mandelshtam - Selected Poems - Penguin Modern Classics. Other great poetry can be read in the 'Four of Us - Pasternak, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam'. If you want to read Doctor Zhivago there are some great versions, the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is very good.  Good compilations of poetry are 'The Zoo of the New - A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Muldoon' or 'A Poem for Every Night of the Year - Edited by Allie Esiri'. 
Apr 19, 2022
1 hr 1 min
Episode 23 - Truthfulness
The poems and prose used in this podcast are as follows. Digging and A Kite for Michael and Christopher by Seamus Heaney, Thank You for Waiting by Simon Armitage, The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell. My poems were The Pond from Arriving in Magic, Sedition from A Night Sea Journey these can viewed or the books purchased at www.adriangrscott.com
Feb 16, 2022
1 hr
Episode 22 - The Turning Wheel of the Seasons
The book I have been reading is The Winter Solstice by John Matthews. The poem Sweet Darkness by David Whyte and its commentary can be read in David Whyte Essentials available at https://davidwhyte.com My poems were The Circle from Arriving In Magic, Taking Stock from The Call of the Unwritten, The Belly Of the Year from A Night Sea Journey, There is One Thing Necessary from The Call of the Unwritten, and Afterword to a Traipsing as yet unpublished. Published poetry available at www.adriangrscott.com  The Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem is Frost at Midnight. The Sky Arts show I mention is Wordsworth & Coleridge Road Trip with Frank Skinner and Denise Mina. 
Dec 16, 2021
59 min
Episode 21 - Be Kind to your Shadow
The Poems in this Podcast are Moon Madness from The Call of the Unwritten, This Thing of Darkness from A Night Sea Journey, Married Again and Blossom from Arriving in Magic. The Story is Dream Boy and Shadow Man from A Night Sea Journey. The book by Carl Jung is The Undiscovered Self. To purchase my work go to www.adriangrscott.com 
Nov 12, 2021
1 hr 14 min
Mini Poemcast - Under the Skin of a Long Day
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 
Sep 20, 2021
19 min
Episode 20 - 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 
Aug 24, 2021
58 min
Episode 19 - Invoke the lesson of every suffering - A Conversation with Ray Tonge
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= it is also available from other booksellers.    The poems by Adrian are Writing as Therapy and Don't Recover Too Soon from A Night Sea Journey available at www.adriangrscott.com   
Jun 14, 2021
1 hr 14 min
Episode18 The Life Affirming Glory Of Enormous Trees - Turning 60
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 yet unpublished). You can donate to my birthday appeal at https://www.facebook.com/donate/1737114909826153/ and you can find more about my writing at www.adriangrscott.com 
May 2, 2021
1 hr 2 min
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