Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
ADRIAN MITCHELLStadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
ADRIAN MITCHELLAnd the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
ADRIAN MITCHELLYou take the human being and you twist it all about So scrub my skin with women Chain my tongue with whisky Stuff my nose with garlic Coat my eyes with butter Fill my ears with silver Stick my legs in plaster Tell me lies about Vietnam.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music.
ADRIAN MITCHELLPoetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI don’t like writing essays or theory.
ADRIAN MITCHELLAnd the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
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 MITCHELLI hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock’n roll.
ADRIAN MITCHELLThere have always been poets who performed.
ADRIAN MITCHELLI want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It’s my way of talking to the world.
ADRIAN MITCHELLLovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff.
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 MITCHELLWritten poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
ADRIAN MITCHELL