Wishing everyone a happy Solstice, a merry Christmas, a safe journey through the dark time of the year. You can find the miner's hymn on any good music platform - it is called Gresford. With heartfelt thanks to Vicky Jones from the Woodhorn Colliery Museum and to Matt Carr my collaborator and friend on the Grim Up North Podcast. You can find the album Made in Sheffield that Andy Selman and I have done on Spotify, or Apple Music. More info at www.adriangrscott.com 

The final episode of this autumn mini series. In it I explore the whole idea of the genius loci - the sense of place - for me that place of synchronicity is Sheffield. The incidental music is by my great friend Andy Selman. The books referred to are Desert Wisdom by Sushi Nomura, A Year with Thomas Merton Edited by Jonathan Montaldo, A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver, The Essential Jung - Selected Writings by Jonathan Storr. If you live near Sheffield and want to come to the Gig at Cafe#9 on the 14th December here is a link to the details on how to book. https://www.wegottickets.com/event/561690

The incidental music is by my great friend Andy Selman. The books referred to are Desert Wisdom by Sushi Nomura, A Year with Thomas Merton Edited by Jonathan Montaldo, A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver, The Essential Jung - Selected Writings by Jonathan Storr. The first volume of my poetry - A Night Sea Journey is available on my website. You can also find some of the works quoted in this episode at www.adriangrscott.com 

The incidental music is by my great friend Andy Selman. The books referred to are Desert Wisdom by Sushi Nomura, A Year with Thomas Merton Edited by Jonathan Montaldo, A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver, The Essential Jung - Selected Writings by Jonathan Storr. The first volume of my poetry - Arriving In Magic is available on my website. You can also find some of the works quoted in this episode at www.adriangrscott.com 

The incidental music is by my great friend Andy Selman. The books referred to are Desert Wisdom by Sushi Nomura, A Year with Thomas Merton Edited by Jonathan Montaldo, A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver, The Essential Jung - Selected Writings by Jonathan Storr. The first volume of my poetry - the Call of the Unwritten is available on my website. You can also find some of the works quoted in this episode at www.adriangrscott.com 

The two poems used are Visiting Shawbost and Evacuee from Arriving in Magic. It can be purchased at www.adriangrscott.com

Here is Eva's Spotlight page https://www.spotlight.com/2695-6754-9782 

The Wordsworth extract is from The Prelude Book 4. My poem is to be found on my website www.adriangrscott.com 

Thanks to Andy Selman for the incidental music. 

There will be excerpts from the cycle of poems entitled 'Some Canvasses' on my website www.adriangrscott.com 

The poem 'What shall I do with the body i've been given' i from Osip Mandelshtam - Selected Poems - Penguin Modern Classics. Other great poetry can be read in the 'Four of Us - Pasternak, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelshtam'. If you want to read Doctor Zhivago there are some great versions, the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is very good. 

Good compilations of poetry are 'The Zoo of the New - A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Muldoon' or 'A Poem for Every Night of the Year - Edited by Allie Esiri'. 

The poems and prose used in this podcast are as follows. Digging and A Kite for Michael and Christopher by Seamus Heaney, Thank You for Waiting by Simon Armitage, The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell. My poems were The Pond from Arriving in Magic, Sedition from A Night Sea Journey these can viewed or the books purchased at www.adriangrscott.com

The book I have been reading is The Winter Solstice by John Matthews. The poem Sweet Darkness by David Whyte and its commentary can be read in David Whyte Essentials available at https://davidwhyte.com My poems were The Circle from Arriving In Magic, Taking Stock from The Call of the Unwritten, The Belly Of the Year from A Night Sea Journey, There is One Thing Necessary from The Call of the Unwritten, and Afterword to a Traipsing as yet unpublished. Published poetry available at www.adriangrscott.com  The Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem is Frost at Midnight. The Sky Arts show I mention is Wordsworth & Coleridge Road Trip with Frank Skinner and Denise Mina.