A Sheffield Advent
Adent exhibition of photographs and poems inspired by the Steel City. From local writer Adrian G R Scott.
A Sheffield Advent: Hope & Waiting
Poetry and Photos by Adrian G R Scott
We are delighted to exhibit art by Adrian this Advent. Watch the video below in an hour’s sitting or shorter visits. Alternatively, further down the page, access the 11 images and poems as individual files. Copyright Adrian G R Scott with original paintings by Wilma Scott, original music by Andy Selman and a blessing read by Eva Scott.
In memory of John Speddings.
Please donate to the Fir Vale foodbank if you can.
Prologue to a Traipsing
One
I stand, conduit with the flowing / road that runs down from Stanage, /out of the mass-trespassed moors…
Sheffield As I See It
Four
There are cobbles on Sheffield’s streets, / under the tarmac, they show through after a while….
Sheffield Born and Bred
Seven
They sit, side by side, at the foodbank clothing giveaway / Jason and Shaun …
Sheffield In Lockdown
Ten
The queue is a serpent slowly writhing / into the supermarket…
A German Cross
Two
Standing stock still to recall a hundred years…
Seeking Asylum
Five
The interminable turning of wheels / and the passing flashes of lights in windows
Birdsong on Long Line
Eight
A straight trudge, uphill, framed by a rainbow / mirrored in petrol …
Tofts Lane
Eleven
The row of cottages nestles / into the crag in the same way / as the child …
John Speddings - Steelworker
Three
The face he sets to the world / falls short of the man he used to be…
The Fir Vale Five Thousand
Six
It happens every week / on a Thursday in Fir Vale…
Fishing in Loxley
Nine
A rise just beyond / the reach of your cast / its ripples extending / in the summer water …