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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
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 anti-authoritarian 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.

Mitchell sought in his work to counteract the implications of his own assertion that, "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."

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. In 2002 he was nominated, semi-seriously, Britain's Shadow Poet Laureate. Mitchell was for some years poetry editor of the New Statesman, and was the first to publish an interview with The Beatles. His work for the Royal Shakespeare Company included Peter Brook's US and the English version of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade.

Ever inspired by the example of his own favourite poet and precursor William Blake, about whom he wrote the acclaimed Tyger for the National Theatre, his often angry output swirled from anarchistic anti-war satire, through love poetry to, increasingly, stories and poems for children. He also wrote librettos. The Poetry Archive identified his creative yield as hugely prolific.

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. His work was often read and sung at demonstrations and rallies."

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Total Books: 131
Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits
Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781852241643
ISBN-10: 1852241640
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The Adventures of Robin Hood and Marian
The Adventures of Robin Hood and Marian (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781843624349
ISBN-10: 1843624346
Genre: Children's Books
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Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
All My Own Stuff
All My Own Stuff (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780750004466
ISBN-10: 0750004460
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All Shook Up Poems 19972000
All Shook Up Poems 19972000 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781852245139
ISBN-10: 1852245131
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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American Express Pocket Guide to England and Wales
American Express Pocket Guide to England and Wales (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780130251152
ISBN-10: 0130251151
Genre: Travel
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Animal Farm Play
Animal Farm Play [Young Drama] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780413600608
ISBN-10: 0413600602
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The Annotated Out Loud
The Annotated Out Loud (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780904613339
ISBN-10: 090461333X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died
Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780333634646
ISBN-10: 0333634640
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Apeman Cometh
The Apeman Cometh (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780224011471
ISBN-10: 0224011472
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Balloon Lagoon and the Magical Islands of Poetry
Balloon Lagoon and the Magical Islands of Poetry (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781408308066
ISBN-10: 1408308061
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Balloon Lagoon and the Magicv Islands of Poetry
Balloon Lagoon and the Magicv Islands of Poetry [Orchard collections] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781841218564
ISBN-10: 1841218561
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Balloon Lagoon
Balloon Lagoon [Poetry & Folk Tales] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781860394461
ISBN-10: 1860394469
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Baron All at Sea
Baron All at Sea (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780399213878
ISBN-10: 0399213872
Genres: Children's Books, Literature & Fiction
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Baron on the Island of Cheese
Baron on the Island of Cheese (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780399213090
ISBN-10: 0399213090
Genre: Children's Books
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Baron Rides Out
Baron Rides Out (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780399212802
ISBN-10: 0399212809
Genre: Children's Books
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The Baron Rides Out
The Baron Rides Out [The adventures of Baron Munchausen] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780744503333
ISBN-10: 0744503337
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Blue Coffee Poems 19851996
Blue Coffee Poems 19851996 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781852243623
ISBN-10: 1852243627
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The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780224618939
ISBN-10: 0224618938
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Come On Everybody Poems 19532008
Come on Everybody Poems 19532008 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781852249465
ISBN-10: 1852249463
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Daft as a Doughnut
Daft As a Doughnut (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781408308073
ISBN-10: 140830807X
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Dancing in the Street [Poetry and Folk Tales] (Paperback)
Just Adrian [Oberon Masters Series] (Hardcover)
Odissia [Em Portuguese do Brasil] (Hardcover)
The Orchard Book of Poems [Poetry & folk tales] (Hardcover)
Plays with Songs [Modern Playwrights] (Paperback)
A Poem a Day [New Voices in Irish Criticism Series] (Hardcover)
Poems [Cape poetry paperbacks] (Paperback)
The Short Stories of Henry Lawson [Horizon studies in literature] (Other)
The Snow Queen [Family Classic Audio Books] (Audio Cassette)