tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post2205627316550656046..comments2024-01-10T00:22:30.681+00:00Comments on PLATTITUDE: Adrian MitchellSteve Platthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04258173355418446390noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-79540743401596054972011-09-20T17:42:42.356+01:002011-09-20T17:42:42.356+01:00With Adrian at the Peace Festival
if you saw him ...With Adrian at the Peace Festival<br /><br />if you saw him running it was because he’d spotted truth in the crowd and was chasing it if you saw him smiling it was at a good deed waving from a balcony if you saw him jumping it was in a playground with all the other daft kids on the block raising anarchy if you heard him singing it was girls and boys come out to play if you saw him laughing he was laughing he was really laughing if you saw him waving it was to say HELLO come in and join the feast of the human race if you saw him writing it was a love letter to the world on the day of its crucifixion if you saw him dancing it was to a Beatles tune about giving peace a chance and waiting for that moment to arriveChrysnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-42094876234163084262009-02-07T02:17:00.000+00:002009-02-07T02:17:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.wow power levelinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17740059839891957088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-69353139300021862082009-01-20T18:03:00.000+00:002009-01-20T18:03:00.000+00:00I saw Adrian Mitchell read at Southill Park, Brack...I saw Adrian Mitchell read at Southill Park, Bracknell in the nineties. Or should I say, Adrian Mitchell read for me, that's how it felt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-44194348061123476862008-12-23T23:17:00.000+00:002008-12-23T23:17:00.000+00:00Thanks Steve. Watch out for the Telegraph Obit - i...Thanks Steve. Watch out for the Telegraph Obit - it was their brief that inspired him to produce 'Royalty is a neurosis - get well soon'. <BR/><BR/>Alistair MitchellUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03326802371967427588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-33395643125562522512008-12-22T23:46:00.000+00:002008-12-22T23:46:00.000+00:00Poignant now to read another of Brian Patten's poe...Poignant now to read another of Brian Patten's poems from the same collection as "So many different lengths of time" <BR/><BR/>Tumour-ridden, the brackets close in. <BR/>They drop against the ends of names, <BR/>Not orderly, but any old how. <BR/>Henri, Mitchell, McGough - watch it mates, <BR/>The brackets, any day now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-73968179466765390722008-12-22T20:14:00.000+00:002008-12-22T20:14:00.000+00:00I also remember Adrian from his/your NS days. Adri...I also remember Adrian from his/your NS days. Adrian "The Messer" Mitchell challenged James Fenton to a public poetry contest to defend his (Fenton's) title as "the greatest poet in all England" which had just been bestowed on him by the New Yorker. Fenton the po-faced poetry professor made some comment about not being prepared to stand up and have Adrian Mitchell hurl insults at him. First round KO to The Messer. Yes we'll miss him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-14394231593359854792008-12-22T16:05:00.000+00:002008-12-22T16:05:00.000+00:00The Robert Grave's poem is beautiful and yes, so f...The Robert Grave's poem is beautiful and yes, so fitting. I think these lines from 'So many different lengths of time', by Brian Patten are quite wonderful too at making some kind of sense of the senseless. (As is Neruda's original.)<BR/><BR/>So, how long does a man live after all?<BR/>And how much does he live while he lives?<BR/>We fret and ask so many questions -<BR/>then when it comes to us<BR/>the answer is so simple after all.<BR/><BR/>A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us,<BR/>for as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams,<BR/>for as long as we ourselves live,<BR/>holding memories in common, a man lives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-35124445299122914092008-12-22T13:04:00.000+00:002008-12-22T13:04:00.000+00:00Thanks for that eloquent tribute, Steve. And how m...Thanks for that eloquent tribute, Steve. And how much I agree that your bringing him to the NS was among your greatest achievements.<BR/><BR/>Bill GreenwellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1227923538311048670.post-63482487006640836862008-12-22T11:37:00.000+00:002008-12-22T11:37:00.000+00:00indeed very sad - I remember seeing him often in t...indeed very sad - I remember seeing him often in the late 60s, reciting 'Tell me lies about Vietnam', which had great impact on me.fredbloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02149107753127167063noreply@blogger.com