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Adrian G R Scott

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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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Episode 36 - The Sacred Question

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2024/04/03

The poems used in this episode are - Sometimes by David Whyte (in Essentials) - No Such Thing As Right Or Wrong from The Call of the Unwritten - Accompaniment from Arriving In Magic - Christ Before the High Priest from Arriving In Magic - Thomas Wanted To See Nail Marks from A Night Sea Journey. All my books are available at https://adriangrscott.com/product-category/books/You can view the painting mentioned 'Christ Before the High Priest by Honthorst on the National Gallery Website

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Episode 35 - Sabbath

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2024/03/04

The main book I reference in this episode is Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel. The artwork for this episode is taken from one of the wood engravings in the book by Ilya Schor. It really speaks to me of the way the workaday world holds us captive and the great promise of cessation and rest that the idea of sabbath offers. The first two poems I read are When Will You Be Ready and This Is All The Life You Have from Arriving in Magic. Purchasable at www.adriangrscott.com . The last one - A Moment In

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Living Our Own Story with Lara Scott

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2024/01/29

The Poems used in this episode are Lara's Surgery from Arriving In Magic and Advice to Myself in Anxiety from A Night Sea Journey available to purchase at Books The Novel Lara reads from is Still Life by Sarah Winman Click Here for More

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Christmas Podcast - ’Citizens of a Wintry Heaven’

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2023/12/17

The two poems that I shared Francis and the Crib at Greccio and Winter Drive Along The A66 will be available on my substack page The Anxious Poet's Substack The Kate Rusby song is from her album While Mortals Sleep Listen . The Phamie Gow version of Emily Dickinson's poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers can be heard here Listen. The article by Edward Kessler Jewish-Muslim dialogue: feeling the other’s pain can be found in the Tablet - 7th December 2023. The book by Zambia Malik is called We Are

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Episode 32 - An American Odyssey - Part Two

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2023/11/29

You can read a version of this Podcast at The Anxious Poet's Substack The Poem - You Stride On, My Son, Ahead of Us, Up Enchanted Rock is in my book A Night Sea Journey available at www.adriangrscott.com The rest of the poem are on the Substack. The Native American Pipe Music is from R. Carlos Nakai - Canyon Trilogy.

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Episode 31 - An American Odyssey - Part One

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2023/11/04

You can find the poems and photographs in this episode here Adrian's Substack Page The book quoted is The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M Marshall.

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Episode 30 - Wild Places - A Source of Solace and Hope

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2023/07/24

Belden C Lane is Professor Emeritus of Theological Studies, American Religion, and History of Spirituality at St Louis University, He is author of Backpacking with the Saints, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, and Ravished by Beauty. The poem he quotes is by Wendell Berry.It is called Our Real Work - It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not

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Mini Poemcast - The Call of the Unwritten

the anxious poet’s podcast ·

2023/07/10

This poem can be found in my first collection of the same name - The Call of the Unwritten. https://adriangrscott.com/product/the-call-of-the-unwritten/

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