the anxious poet’s podcast

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 

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. 

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'. 

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

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A Night Sea Journey, There is One Thing Necessary from The Call of the Unwritten, and Afterword to a Traipsing as yet unpublished.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. 

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 

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 

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 

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 

 

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 

Martins in the Eves - A Mini Poemcast

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 

Episode Seventeen - The Beautiful Ordinariness of Love

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 Thomas. The other are all by Adrian - Evacuee from Arriving in Magic, My Daughter Acting from A Night Sea Journey,  From the Medals of My Father from The Call of the Unwritten, and Two Photographs from A Night Sea Journey. The Cover Photo is from his parents on their wedding day. To purchase any of Adrians work go to www.adriangrscott.com