Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.
ADRIAN MITCHELLPoetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.
ADRIAN MITCHELLWhen I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on
ADRIAN MITCHELLAnd the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music.
ADRIAN MITCHELLAnd the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
ADRIAN MITCHELLThere have always been poets who performed.
ADRIAN MITCHELLWritten poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI 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 MITCHELLI want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It’s my way of talking to the world.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I’ve walked this way.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock’n roll.
ADRIAN MITCHELLLovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff.
ADRIAN MITCHELLBlake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI would have walked on the waterBut I wasn’t fully insured.
ADRIAN MITCHELLThe man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.
ADRIAN MITCHELLYou put your bombers in, you put your conscience out.
ADRIAN MITCHELL