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the anxious poet’s podcast

Adrian G R Scott

The Anxious Poet is a journey into the world of poetry, anxiety and vulnerability.

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The Jess Jennings Incident - An Anxious Poet's...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2026/04/09

The books or articles quoted in my commentary are:Binding the Strong Man : A Political Reading of Mark's Gospel by Ched Myers What Jesus Meant by Gary Wills The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: The Spiral of Violence - Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - https://cac.org/daily-meditations/world-flesh-devil-spiral-violence-2015-10-21/ Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text

36:24

The Jess Jennings Incident - An Anxious Poet's...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2026/04/01

The books quoted in my commentary are:A Poor Man Called Jesus by Jose Cardenas Pallares The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren Pope Leo's Homily for Palm Sunday - Read Here Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my substack - https://adriangrscott.substack.com

47:27

The Jess Jennings Incident - An Anxious Poet's...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2026/03/25

The books quoted in my commentary are:The Gospel In Solentiname - Ernesto Cardenal Jon Sobrino - Spiritual Writings - Ed Robert Lassalle-Klein Christology At The Crossroads- Jon Sobrino The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my substack - https://adriangrscott.substack.com

47:14

The Jess Jennings Incident - An Anxious Poet's...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2026/03/18

The books quoted in my commentary are:The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren A Poor Man Called Jesus by Jose Cardenas Pallares Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my substack - https://adriangrscott.substack.com

43:34

The Jess Jennings Incident - An Anxious Poet's...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2026/03/11

The book quoted in my commentary is:The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send them to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my Substack - https://adriangrscott.substack.com

47:12

The Jess Jennings Incident - An Anxious Poet's...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2026/03/05

The books quoted in my commentary are:The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren A Poor Man Called Jesus by Jose Cardenas Pallares The Great Turning - From Empire to Earth Community by David C Korten Any reflections, comments, thoughts, and perhaps your own idea of a retelling in your setting, please send to me at theanxiouspoetspodcast@gmail.com You can read the text and see accompanying material on my substack - https://adriangrscott.substack.com

34:12

The Jess Jennigs Incident - An Anxious Poet's...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2026/02/25

The Hermeneutic Circle I mention is from this book: The Liberation of Theology (1976), written by Juan Luis Segundo, S.J., translated by John Drury, and published by Orbis Books. The second book mentioned is The Secret Message of Jesus by Brian D. McLaren. The Third is The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle. Here is a link to the Good News translation that I reference. Good News Translation Here is a link to the Message Translation, which is useful if you are very familiar with the text and need a

44:12

The Jess Jennigs Incident - An Anxious Poet's...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2026/02/18

With gratitude to Andy Selman for the background music to the Jingle. With thanks to Wilma Scott for the artwork that she did for the original publication, which I have reproduced here. Also with gratitude to Mick Donelan, whom I met all those years ago (1980) in Ray Alan Manshops on Pinstone Street in Sheffield. Finally, thanks to Fr. Christopher Posluszny of St. Mary's Cathedral in Sheffield for inviting me to speak to his catechumens under the title 'Meet the Jesus of the gospels', which gave

56:31

Episode 46 - A Christmas Pocast for 2025

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2025/12/31

The Poems recited are as follows:BC: AD By U.A. Fanthorpe |Christmas Poem By Wendell Berry | Song of the Shepherds By Richard Bauckham | The Hope Of The Few By Ian Adams | Born in You By Ian Adams | A Christmas Blessing By John O'Donohue. The music we used in the Scared Space for Christmas 2025 that you might want to listen to was: Shepherds Arise – Kate Rusby |O Antiphons – Floriani |Blake's Lullaby - The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Daniel Hyde & Britten Sinfonia |Little Town - Over

22:17

Mini Poemcast - What My Migraines Taught Me

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2025/10/31

This poem is from my first collection- The Call of the Unwritten this is available by clicking here . The photo in the podcast episode image is from https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Strider_%28chapter%29 The quote from CG Jung is as follows “We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal spectres, not the psychic facts that were responsible

60:29

Episode 45 - The Real Truth

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2025/10/01

The poems used in this podcast are The Real Truth from The Call Of The Unwritten, Inconsequence and Silence from The Call Of The Unwritten, Death Lodge from Arriving In Magic and No Such Thing As Right And Wrong from The Call Of The Unwritten. The book I mentioned is The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken Smith. The piece about Death Lodges is from this blog Soul Craft Musings by Bill Plotkin This is a link to our film podcast Comparing Apples and Oranges You can

01:08:06

Episode 44 - 'What Has Men's Work Ever Done For Us?'...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2025/07/16

The poem I read at the beginning called Crying For A Vision at Ghost Ranch will be part of a new collection called Where Do Dreams Come From? The poem that Simon reads is A Man Lost By A River by Michael Blumenthal from the anthology, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart, edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade. The poem Ben reads is one of his own and it is called We Need Artists Today. If you want to know more about the Male Journey - the Men's work we have all been involved in go to

01:00:36

Episode 43 - Mary Marken - Her Belfast Song

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2025/07/03

If you want to know more about Mary Marken and her novel Belfast Song go to https://marymarkenbelfastsong.com/For more about the Podcast and my work in general go to www.adriangrscott.com

01:00:05

Episode 42 - Naming Our Myths - Part Two

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2025/05/26

The two poems are to be published in my next collection - Where Do Dreams Come From. The books mentioned are The Book Of Symbols - Reflections on Archetypal Images - Taschen, Animal Life in Nature, Myth and Dreams - Elizabeth Caspari, Inner Work: Using Dreams & Active Imagination for Personal Growth: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth - Robert A. Johnson, The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols - Alain Gheerbrant. The App is called Temenos Dream www.temenosdream.com The quote from

30:24

Mini Poemcast - Advice To Myself In Anxiety

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2025/03/14

The poem comes from my collection entitled A Night Sea Journey available by Clicking Here The Poem by Mary Oliver is called Don't Hesitate. Look out for the next full podcast Naming Our Myths Part Two coming soon.

49:19

Episode 41 - A Christmastide Podcast

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2024/12/31

The Poems I read are available on my Website www.adriangorscott.com you can read all four of them there. The carol Diadem is from Kate Rusby's album 'While Mortals Sleep' Listen on Spotify . Thanks for listening in 2024 and I look forward to more chat in 2025.

01:00:04

Episode 40 - Naming Our Myths | Part One

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2024/11/20

The poems used in this episode are Taking Stock from the Call of the Unwritten - I Am Me And You Are You from Arriving In Magic - Bottle Digging from A Night Sea Journey - all available to buy at www.adriangrscott.com This is the first quote used “I suspected that myth had a meaning which I was sure to miss if I lived outside it in the haze of my own speculations. I was driven to ask myself in all seriousness: “What is the myth you are living?” I found no answer to this question, and had to admit

59:41

Episode 39 - A Retrospective | Part One

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2024/08/18

This is a selection of some of the best bits according to how many people downloaded it and the amount of positive feedback they received. They are from, in order, Episode 1, Episode 3, Episode 5, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9, Episode 15 and Episode 19. Thanks again to Philippe Edwards, Patrick Ryan, Helen Mort and Ray Tonge. For more go to www.adriangrscott.com

01:07:05

Episode 38 - 'The colly-wobbled, jelly-bellied...

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2024/06/13

The poem quoted in the first half of the podcast is by Rainer Maria Rilke it is in Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God - the opening lines are 'You are not surprised at the force of the storm'.Here is list of Adrian's Lessons Learned with the quotes from his poems. Lessons Learnt from my Breakdown Breathing Advice to Myself in Anxiety ‘Breathe slowly into this, Don’t run; stay, You are moored more firmly than you know. There is a constancy in you not your own.’ Talking

01:10:57

Episode 37 - Simon O'Connor - Love Wins

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2024/05/03

The poem Writing as Therapy at the beginning is from my collection - A Night Sea Journey available at Buy HereSimon's poems are copyright to him. If you want to hear more about his poetry you can email him here - stjosephwinsford2012@hotmail.co.uk. He is parish Priest at St Joseph’s RC Church, Winsford, Cheshire.

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