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Adrian Mitchell Biography

Adrian Mitchell aka
Adrian Mitchell
Birthplace: West Sussex

Race: White
Field: Poet, Playwright
Famous for: To Whom It May Concern

Adrian Mitchell Offical Website:
http://www.rippingyarns.co.uk/adrian/

Field: Poet

Adrian Mitchell (born 24 October 1932, Haywards Heath, West Sussex) is an English poet and dramatist. It has been said that his work demonstrates a powerful social conscience and he has been described as the "shadow poet laureate."

He was educated at Greenways School, Ashton Gifford, Wiltshire.[1], a school run by a friend of his mother. George Sassoon, son of the poet Siegfried Sassoon was another alumni of the school.

He has written large numbers of love poems and political poems, and frequently does public readings for Left wing causes. Satire is his speciality. Asked by the establishment to write a poem about the Prince of Wales and his special relationship with the people of Wales, he contributed the short masterpiece : "Royalty is a neurosis./ Get well soon."

He is in the habit of writing in the prologue of his collections of poems "None of the work in this book is to be used in connection with any examination whatsoever." Once a poem was used in a GCSE exam anyway. He agreed to let it go providing he was allowed to sit the exam anonymously (he failed!).

Perhaps his best known poem is To Whom It May Concern, about the Vietnam war, which was first read in Trafalgar Square in 1964. A revised version, referring not only to Vietnam, but also to Iraq and Venezuela was read at the Royal Albert Hall on 25 September 2005 as part of the Poetry Olympics Twenty05 Festival, organised by Michael Horovitz.

Adrian Mitchell Famous Quote

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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Adrian Mitchell News


PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PRESENTS ?A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES?
Leominster Champion
... when Cornerstone Performing Arts Center brings Dylan Thomas' poem, ?A Child's Christmas in Wales?, as adapted by Jeremy Brooks and Adrian Mitchell, ...



Poetry anthology to be launched
Shetland Times Online
A poetry anthology published in memory of and in tribute to the late Adrian Mitchell (aka the ?shadow poet laureate?), who died in December 2008, ...



Biblio-Text: Ripping Yarns
Londonist
plays, theatre ephemera, politics and poetry - as is only fitting, since owner Celia Hewitt is Adrian Mitchell's widow (and so, we assume, the inspiration ...



In brief ? 4 November 2009
Shetland News
POET Adrian Mitchell who came to Shetland as writer-in-residence and died last year will be honoured at Shetland Library next week when an anthology ...
Inspector so pleased with Fair Isle school she stops hal...


Nicholas' penalty gives Portmore victory
Jamaica Observer
Teams: Portmore - Duwayne Kerr, Adrian Mitchell, Sheldon Battiste, Andrae Campbell, Andre Darby, Ricardo Cousins (Kamar Bennett 74th), Shauntel Mundle, ...

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Londonist

Puppetry Review: Perseus and the Gorgon's Head
Londonist
Mixing people with puppets, the performance was an interpretation of an ancient Greek tale written by the late Adrian Mitchell. The people took the form of ...



Hillary Clinton's cosy crackdown on Kabul corruption
Telegraph.co.uk
George Mitchell has had as much success in the Middle East as Ireland had in qualifying for the World Cup. Richard Holbrooke, the afpak envoy, ...

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Portmore lose again as St Georges hold on to second place
Jamaica Observer
Teams: Portmore United - Shawn Sawyers, Adrian Mitchell, Anthony Modeste, Tyrone Sawyers, Mario Swaby, Kevin Deerr (Ricardo Cousins 62nd), Kamar Bennett ...

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A life of rhyme: John Cooper Clarke, the 'punk Poet Laureate', grants Robert ...
Independent
Not long before the great Adrian Mitchell died last year, I asked him what had been his most difficult experience as a live performer. ...

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Marat/Sade aims for the jugular
Creative Loafing
... of songs written by Richard Peaslee that director Peter Brook appended to the Adrian Mitchell-Geoffrey Skelton adaptation of the original German script. ...




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