Description
| Product ID: | 9781852249465 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Come On Everybody |
| Subtitle: | Poems 1953-2008 |
| Authors: | Author: Adrian Mitchell |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to his final collection, Tell Me Lies (2008). Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to Tell Me Lies (2008). His poetry''s simplicity, clarity, passion and humour show his allegiance to a vital, popular tradition embracing William Blake as well as the ballads and the blues. His most nakedly political poems - about war, Vietnam, prisons and racism - became part of the folklore of the Left, sung and recited at demonstrations and mass rallies. His childlike questioning was a constant reminder from the 60s onwards that poetry is first and foremost an assertion of the human spirit. A pacifist prophet who remained true to his heartfelt beliefs, Mitchell reported back for over half a century from a world blighted by war, compromise, double-talk and pragmatism without losing his innocence, integrity and impish sense of humour. Angela Carter described him as a ''joyous, acrid and demotic tumbling lyricist Pied Piper determinedly singing us away from catastrophe''. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-10-25 |
