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Come on Everybody

By Adrian Mitchell

Come on Everybody Social Sciences

Come on Everybody

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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'.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
434
Release Date:
2013-02-15
Publication Date:
2012-10-25
Publisher:
Bloodaxe Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1852249463
ISBN13:
9781852249465
Weight:
735 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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