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Adrian G R Scott

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Poetry as Resistance by Adrian G. R. Scott

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I am really pleased to launch this new collection.

Poetry has long been a vital tool for pushing back against the noise of modern life – and in this remarkable new collection, Adrian GR Scott gathers three years of poems that do exactly that. Drawing on C. G. Jung and the rich world of dreams, he writes about growing up, family, faith, friendship (including the four-legged kind) and the moments that change a life. From an American road trip with his son, through Lakota wisdom and the troubled legacy of the West, to long-loved Cumbrian fells and the ghost of Dylan Thomas in Laugharne, Scott seeks wilder ways of seeing that resist “the hum-drumming, news-cycled, recycled, same as it ever was, broadcast world”. At the book’s core are poems that stiffen the sinews of resistance: against authoritarianism and war, against the corrosion of the Welfare State and its “five giant evils” of ignorance, want, idleness, disease and squalor.
Finally, in dialogue with Russian resistance poets Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova, and facing the realities of mortality, Scott offers a humane, hard-won hope.

I am available to give readings and lead retreat days and other events on the themes raised by this work.

Contact me at [email protected] to find out more.

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'Have you ever been plunged under the surface of your conscious life and found yourself
all at sea, not knowing what course to steer?'
- All At Sea, In A Night Sea Journey
'When will you be ready
to hear the voice
that has been speaking to you with a patient kindness
for some time now,
like birdsong as you wake?'
- When Will You Be Ready, Arriving in Magic
'I came back from High Easdale Tarn,
and my teacup was white like a new page'
- Easdale Tarn , A Night Sea Journey
'I often wonder what my face says as it stares out at the world. Is it begging a question of the returning gazes, asking who am I and where does my face fit?'
- My Face, Arriving in Magic
'And so, the ordinary continues to be the 
thing that is most dangerous, and the 
hundred-year-old memory that we banished'
- Sheffield In Lockdown, Soon to be published collection about Sheffield
'A space presents itself 
as the wind and the needled edge 
of the saguaro cactus, 
speak of the solitude 
that you bargain 
away for acquaintance'
- Aravaipa Canyon, Unpublished Poem
'What is acidic in you, that might turn sweet, 
yearning for delivery, to take first breath. 
Go into hard labour to birth it, It is there,
in the womb of you, aching to emerge'
- Last Testament, A Night Sea Journey