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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 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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Come On Everybody
• Subtitle: Poems 1953-2008
• Author: Adrian Mitchell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9781852249465
• ISBN: 1852249463
• ID: 01226594
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Weight: 802 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 157 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. October 2012

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