| 'Adrian
Mitchell is no more na�ve than Stevie Smith, but like her he has the innocence
of his own experience. � real inner freedom and the courage of his own music.
Among all the voices of the Court, a voice as welcome as Lear's fool�.Humour
that can stick deep and stay funny.' - TED HUGHES. 'This is Adrian Mitchell, the British Mayakovsky' - KENNETH TYNAN. 'Nobody else writes like him. And it is becoming more and more evident that his achievement endures�.Nobody has ever departed with such language for such a destination�..Mitchell is a joker, a lyrics writer, a word-spinner, an epigrammist, a man of passion and imagination�.Against the present British state he opposes a kind of revolutionary populism, bawdiness, wit and the tenderness sometimes to be found between animals.' - JOHN BERGER. 'Joyous, acrid and demotic tumbling lyricist Pied Piper determinedly singing us away from catastrophe.' - ANGELA CARTER. 'Adrian Mitchell's poetry for children is as marvellous as his work for adults. Humorous, thoughtful, provocative, bang-on for kids entering the 21st century.' - BRIAN PATTEN. 'In the world of verse for children nobody has produced more surprising verse or more genuinely inspired fun than Adrian Mitchell.' - TED HUGHES. AND LITTLE RICHARD SAYS: 'When I sing my songs you can't sit still, your big toe shoot up in your boot!' |