Episodes
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Mini Poemcast - The Terrible Invitation
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
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
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Episode 13 - A Moment in Each Day
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
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A Dream of Trains by Pablo Neruda from Five Decades :Poems 1925-1970, Iron Hans by Anne Sexton from Transformations, an unpublished poem called A Moment in Each Day by Adrian Scott, and Taking Stock from The Call of the Unwritten by Adrian Scott. The film mentioned is Il Postino (the Postman) available on amazon prime. The book about Ruskin is To See Clearly - Why Ruskin Matters by Suzanne Fagence Cooper.
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Mini Poemcast - There is a certain kind of vow - from Arriving in Magic
Friday Mar 27, 2020
Friday Mar 27, 2020
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.
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Mini Poemcast - Sedition - from A Night Sea Journey
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
Saturday Mar 14, 2020
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 face our outer fears but our inner ones too. This inner journey introduces us to parts of ourselves that we are unfamiliar with and need to be negotiated with, to be dialogued with, to have secret talks with. Then we will be better fitted to face this changing world as it unfolds with resilience and vulnerability.
Go well in these more isolated and solitary times. Adrian (the anxious poet).
(the Music is from Baraka)
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Mini Poemcast - Falling - from Arriving in Magic
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
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 Crosby Stills Nash and Young vintage, rather a lovely musician from Sheffield.
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Episode Twelve - Vulnerability - Keel Hauling and House Martins
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
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://brenebrown.com
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Episode Eleven - The Season of the Holly King
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
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.
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Episode Ten - Dylan Thomas - entering the round Zion of the water bead.
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
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 addiction in Dylan's tempestuous life. This allows us to explore these issues through the lyrical and mysterious lines of this enigmatic poet.
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Francis of Assisi - An Anxious Saint?
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
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 last collection - A Night Sea Journey available on Amazon or at www.adriangrscott.com The Leonardo Boff book mentioned is St.Francis: A Model for Human Liberation. Also check out the new film about his visit to the Sultan - https://www.sultanandthesaintfilm.com
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Two Anxious Poets and Alfie - With Poet and Writer Helen Mort
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
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 Corgi 2019 a great read for anxious people and those who live with us!
Saturday Aug 10, 2019
Episode Seven - The Bird Singing Path of Enchanting Difficulty
Saturday Aug 10, 2019
Saturday Aug 10, 2019
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-full/ . This is the website of Mobile Power that my good friend Jono West is part of https://www.mobile-power.co.uk This is the link to the book by Sarah Wilson on Anxiety I mentioned http://www.sarahwilson.com/books/
Thanks to all the people who have recently listened to these offerings and given such generous and vulnerable feedback. I look forward to more conversation around anxiety, poetry and vulnerability.
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Sixth Episode - Vincent and the barred window's field
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
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-seeing/ . You can buy A Night Sea Journey at www.adriangrscott.com