Inspirational poet, playwright and performer who was a natural pacifist The poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell, in whom the legacies of Blake and Brecht coalesce with the zip of Little Richard and ...

This is more of a personal response to the death December 20 of poet Adrian Mitchell than an informed, much less scholarly, commentary. My encounter with his works took place several decades ago and I ...

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Richard Temple writes: Adrian Mitchell (obituary, 22 December) was the resident writer at Billericay school, an Essex comprehensive, from 1978 until 1980. It was an unprecedented appointment but he ...

Adrian Mitchell, who has died aged 76, was a poet, playwright, novelist and children's author and wrote passionately about nuclear war, Vietnam and racism. Although a radical polemicist – Red Pepper ...