"Adrian Mitchell, the playwright, poet and children’s author known as the Shadow Poet Laureate, has died at the age of 76.
Mitchell was known for a forthright voice often laced with tenderness and wry satire, and the social conscience of his poems dealt with nuclear war, Vietnam, prisons and racism, leading the socialist magazine Red Pepper to dub him “Shadow Poet Laureate” in 2002." Read the full Times obituary
Posted by Simon Lewin on December 22nd, 2008