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). 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'.
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