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Adrian Mitchell

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I know a lie when I hear one.


— Adrian Mitchell


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I don't like writing essays or theory.


— Adrian Mitchell


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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.


— Adrian Mitchell


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I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.


— Adrian Mitchell


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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.


— Adrian Mitchell


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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.


— Adrian Mitchell


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There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.


— Adrian Mitchell


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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.


— Adrian Mitchell


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I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.


— Adrian Mitchell


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About Adrian Mitchell






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Adrian Mitchell FRSL (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet novelist and playwright. He did this through his poetry his plays his song lyrics and his own performances. He went on to study English at Christ Church Oxford where he was taught by J.

The Times said that Mitchell's had been a "forthright voice often laced with tenderness. " His poems on such topics as nuclear war Vietnam prisons and racism had become "part of the folklore of the Left. "
In a National Poetry Day poll in 2005 his poem "Human Beings" was voted the one most people would like to see launched into space.

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