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Adrian G R Scott

Adrian G R Scott

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New Podcast

 

With Belden Lane – Episode 30 Wild Places as a Source of Solace and Hope

 

Adrian and Belden explore themes around wild places and their deep effect on the human psyche.

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 employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.

My poem Aravaipa Canyon is as yet unpublished if you want a copy email me at [email protected]

The other Poem is Two Beggars and a Wolf in A Night Sea Journey available on this website

The Wordsworth Sonnet is XXXII in his collected works – Surprised by Joy.

Deep thanks to Belden for his robust vulnerability and friendship.

 

 

the anxious poet’s podcast

‘Whether an hour long conversation or fifteen minutes on one special poem, Adrian always takes your brain to a softer place.’

A Review of the Anxious Poets Podcast

  • '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    - Aravaipa Canyon, Unpublished Poem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

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