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Adrian Green

Updated: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:17 am

adrian@greenad.co.uk

http://www.greenad.co.uk

@AdrianGreen80

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Biography

Lives overlooking the sea at Southend, Essex, the county where he was born. Performed at : Billericay Arts Centre, BBC Radio Essex, Colchester Arts Centre, Cramphorn Theatre (Chelmsford), The Poetry Cafe (Covent Garden), Cabaret Voltaire (Colchester), Dangerous Poetry (Southend), Essex Poetry Festival, Harlow Playhouse, The Jazz Lab, Leigh Folk Festival, National Book League, Odyssey Folk Club, Palace Theatre (Westcliff), Peggy Sue's poetry (Leigh), Poetry Cafe (Covent Garden), Southend Library, The Southend Poetry Group, Club Riga (Westcliff), Southend Pier, Sundown (Southend), Torriano Meeting House and other places. Led workshops at: Essex Poetry Festival, Southend Library, The Southend Poetry Group. Has edited Sol magazine and has been reviews editor of Littoral magazine. Poems have been published in Acumen, Chimera, Envoi, Essex Countryside, Global Tapestry, In Praise of Essex, Iron, Marble, New Essex Writing, Openings, Poet’s England – Essex, Poems for Jeremy Corbyn (Shoestring), Poetry in Practice, Poetry Salzburg Review, Prole, Provincia Corvina (Romania), Pro Saeculum (Romania), Psychopoetica, Reach, Selected Poems of the UK (Spiny Babbler, Nepal), Sol, Southend Poetry, The Interpreter’s House, The Morning Star, The Unsaid Goodnight (Stride), Waves and several other magazines and collections. A new collection, New Blues and Other Poems (2023, ISBN 978-1-912412-52-5) is available from The Littoral Press. All That Jazz and Other Poems (Oct 2018, ISBN 978-1-912412-11-2), is available from The Littoral Press. See review at https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=83933 Previous publications include Chorus and Coda (Dec 2007, ISBN 978-0-9550926-7-1), from The Littoral Press. Two earlier pamphlets from Sol Publications, Beachgame (1977) and The Watchers (1977) are now out of print. Primarily based in Essex and London. See website http://www.greenad.co.uk

Samples

SOUTHEND SEAFRONT (a twelve bar booze) There’s a wearily way of walking the blues A beerily way of walking the blues The Southend blues The seafront blues A syncopated shuffle between the bars From the Royal, to Charlie’s and the Liberty Bell Chinnery’s, Papillon and the Hope Hotel, The Cornucopia, Falcon and the Forester’s Arms Then the Kursaal, Minerva, Brittannia too The bars that give me the Southend blues The Southend seafront boozers blues. There’s a wearily way of walking the blues A beerily way of walking the blues The Southend blues The seafront blues On the Golden Mile after too much beer Or out to sea along the pier The blues come in and the tide goes out Blues come in when the tide goes out It’s the Estuary Shuffle and the Saturday cruise They all add up to the Southend blues The Southend seafront boozers blues. STRING BASS Some like to dominate, others caress a voluptuous rhythm on pliant strings. This pulse drives life through wanton counterpoint, the heart and harmony of things. ADRIAN GREEN

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