Adrian Mitchell and Paul Taylor

MLF and Poets & Players are delighted to be co-hosting this event featuring one of the UK’s best loved poets, Adrian Mitchell. He is a prolific poet, playwright and children’s writer. His poetry’s simplicity, clarity, passion and humour show his allegiance to a vital, popular tradition embracing William Blake as well as the Border Ballads and the blues. His most nakedly political poems – about nuclear war, Vietnam, prisons and racism – have become part of the folklore of the Left, sung and recited at demonstrations and mass rallies. His latest book is The Shadow Knows: Poems 2000-2004 and his next book, Tell Me Lies, will be published in 2009 (Bloodaxe). Performing with him will be the poet and jazz trombonist Paul Taylor.