Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him "the British Mayakovsky"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 October 1932
Adrian Mitchell quotes about
atrocities committed england faithfully miles sitting terrible thousands
It's about sitting faithfully in England while thousands of miles away terrible atrocities are being committed in our name.
country war reading
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines.
thinking think-of-you i-think-of-you
When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on
running one-day way
I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way
fighting hands caress
Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.
writing writing-essays theory
I don't like writing essays or theory.
rocks use rock-n-roll
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.