British poet Adrian Mitchell has died. For a look at his life through the lens of the SocialistWorker online go here. For the British Council’s website on Contemporary Writers go here.
“Mitchell coined one of the most often-heard aphorisms about the ‘unpopularity’ of modern poetry: ‘Most people ignore most poetry / because / most poetry ignores most people’. By contrast, his work has always been deliberately populist and accessible, and intent upon its audience.”
