All Shook Up: Poems 1997-2000

by Adrian Mitchell

Ever since the late 1960s, Adrian Mitchell has been one of Europe's best-selling poets. His poetry's simplicity, clarity, passion, and humour show his allegiance to a vital, popular tradition embracing William Blake, as well as the blues. This collection, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, is a tangled jungle of daydreams, pacifist kickboxing, blues reports, animal caresses, songs of the howling desert and hospital jokes.

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

Adrian Mitchell, FRSL, was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him the British Mayakovsky.