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Adrian Mitchell FRSL (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) 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 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament movement.
The poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell, in whom the legacies of Blake and Brecht coalesce with the zip of Little Richard and the swing of Chuck Berry, has died of heart failure at the age of 76.
Adrian Mitchell (1932 – 2008) was a hugely prolific writer, the author of a great number of novels, plays and poems, for adults and, increasingly, for children – he wrote that “more and more of my time is spent writing for children. This is partly because I have six grandchildren.”
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Mitchell's original plays and stage adaptations, performed on mainstream national stages and fringe venues, on boats and in nature, add up to a musical, epic and comic form of theatre, a poet's drama worthy of Aristophanes and Lorca.
Dec 23, 2008 · Adrian Mitchell, a prolific British poet whose impassioned verse against social injustice, racism and violence was often declaimed at antiwar rallies and political demonstrations, died on...
Dec 20, 2018 · Adrian Mitchell (b 24/10/1932; d 20/12/2008) reading his To Whom It May Concern at the legendary International Poetry Incarnation in Royal Albert Hall, London 1965. For the next 50 years he would add verses about the lies we’ve been told in endless wars ever since.
Adrian Mitchell was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and co-edited Red Sky at Night: An Anthology of British Socialist Poetry (2003). He died in December 2008.
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