Adrian Henri

Adrian Maurice Henri ( born April 10, 1932 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, † 20 December 2000) was a British poet, who represented the late 1960s, along with Roger McGough and Brian Patten, the Mersey Sound -called style of young poets.

Biography

His first poems appeared in 1967, along with works by Brian Patten and Roger McGough in the extraordinarily successful tenth volume of Penguin Modern Poets 10 under the title The Mersey Sound, making it one beside McGough and Patten on the so-called "Liverpool Poets ". The band was so successful that he appeared in a new enlarged edition in 1974 and 1983.

The success of the book meant that he played 1968-1970 with the multimedia artistic performance group Liverpool Scene.

His extensive work is submitted, the searchingly honest and at the same time unaffected anthology Autobiography (1971). His later poetry collections include The Best of Henri ( 1975), From the Loveless Motel (1980 ), Penny Arcade (1983 ), Wish You Were Here (1990) and Not Fade Away ( 1994). Together with the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy in 1977 he published the poetry collection Beauty and the Beast.

In 2000 he was one of the winners of the awarded by the Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award.

In addition to his literary career, he worked as a painter, with his works included the same immediate pop art culture as his literary works.

Group Exhibitions

• 2012: Happiness is a hot gun. Art Perspectives in Liverpool and Cologne, Culture des BBK in the batch house (Cologne)

Background literature

• Jonathan Raban: The Society of the Poem. Harrap, London 1971, ISBN 0-245-50799- X.

Swell

• Una McGovern (Ed.): Chambers Biographical Dictionary. 7th ed Chambers Press, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, pp. 707f.

• Author
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Poetry
• Briton
• Born in 1932
• Died in 2000
• Man