Adrian Mitchell Quotes

Adrian Mitchell — British Poet born on October 24, 1932, died on December 20, 2008

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"... (wikipedia)

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

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

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

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.

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