Title: Blue coffee : poems, 1985-1996 /
Authors: Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-2008.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books ; Distributed in North America by Dufour Editions,
Year: 1996
Subjects: English poetry
Abstract: Ever since Out Loud in 1968, Adrian Mitchell has been one of Europe's bestselling poets. 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. Bloodaxe already publishes Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits - his 'forty Golden Greats'. This new book brings together the poems he has written since his last collection, On the Beach at Cambridge, appeared in 1985. It will be followed in 1997 by Heart on the Left: Poems 1953-1984, making all his work available in the year of his 65th birthday.
Contents: A Puppy Called Puberty -- A Dog Called Elderly -- Questionnaire -- Yes -- Golo, the Gloomy Goalkeeper -- Blood and Oil -- No, She Really is Upset, You Know -- Millennium Countdown -- Trying Hard To Be Normal -- Or -- Der Bucketspiel -- Cutting It Up -- The Olchfa Reading -- Booze and Bards -- Bottles of Poetry -- Poet -- Toys for Rich Kids, Toys for Poor Kids -- Poetry and Knitting -- Explanation -- He Might Have Looked Better in a Beard -- No Wages for Poets, Please, I Beg You -- The Murder of Michael Smith by Three Men in Kingston, Jamaica -- The Wilder Poetry of Tomorrow -- The Collected Poems of Gerald Stimpson, Esq -- Short Back and Sides with a Blowtorch, Please -- Movietone News -- For the Next Eurovision Song Contest -- Hot Pursuit -- For William Cowper -- A Unicorn for Salman -- Moondog -- Deep Purple Wine -- Parade -- Oh What a Lovely Man! -- Edward Hopper -- Footnote on the Edward Hopper Exhibition -- The One About Fred Astaire -- Mayakovsky and the Sun -- The One Good Poster -- The Perils of Reading Fiction -- Looking Down and Looking Down -- Dart River Bed -- That June -- The Rain in June -- A Million Daisies -- November on the Hill -- Winter Listening -- Winter Night in Aldeburgh -- Two Old Ladies Overheard in Totnes -- The Monster's Dream -- The Interrupted Nap -- Put Your Brain to Bed -- A Living Monument -- When the Dapple is on the Chapel... -- Syllables of Wasted Time -- Another Attempt at a Nature Poem, But Don't Worry, Ted -- Bird Dreaming.