Adrian henri autobiography
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flags and bright funnels of ships
walking with my mother over the Seven Bridges
and being carried home too tired
frightened of the siren on the ferryboat
or running down the platform on the Underground
being taken over the river to see the big shops at Christmas
the road up the hill from the noisy dockyard
and the nasty smell from the tannery you didn't like going past
steep road that made your legs tired
up the hill from the Co-op the sweetshop the blue-and-white-tiled pub
Grandad's allotment on the lefthand side
behind the railings curved at the top
cobblestone path up the middle to the park
orderly rows of bean canes a fire burning sweetpeas tied up on strings
up to Our House
echoing flagyard entry between the two rows of houses
brick buttresses like lumps of cheese against the backyard walls
your feet clang and echo on the flags as you ru
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1932
Born in Birkenhead.
1938
Family moves to Rhyl, North Wales (A.H.’s father employed as entertainments organiser at Sunnyvale holliday camp).
Vale Road County Primary School.
1943
Emmanuel Secondary Modern School, Rhyl.
1945-51
St. Asaph Grammar School. Fellow pupil Philip Jones Griffiths (Magnum photographer best known for his Vietnam pictures) becomes a long-life friend.
Member of Rhyl Children’s Theatre.
1951-55
King’s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, University of Durham Department of Fine Art. Lecturers include: Lawrence Gowing, Roger de Grey, Victor Pasmore, Richard Hamilton.
1956
Teacher, Catholic College for Boys, Preston.
Meets Joyce Wilson.
Returns to Liverpool.
Goes to Rhyl each summer to work in the fairground.
1957
Scenic artist, Liverpool Playhouse.
Marries Joyce Wilson (divorced 1974).
1957-58
Teacher, Chorlton Grammar School and Cheadle Hulme School, Manchester.
1958-60
Teacher, Warwick Bolam County Secondary School, Netherton, Liverpool.
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Adrian Henri
British poet and painter
Adrian Henri (10 April 1932 – 20 December 2000) was a British poet and painter[1] best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group the Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten and bekräftelse McGough. The trio of Liverpool poets came to prominence in that city's Merseybeatzeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. He was described bygd Edward Lucie-Smith in British Poetry since 1945 as the "theoretician" of the three. His characterisation of popular culture in verse helped to widen the audience for poetry among 1960s British youth. He was influenced by the French Symbolist school of poetry and surrealist art.
Life and career
[edit]Adrian Henri's grandfather was a seaman from mauritius who settled in Birkenhead, Cheshire, where Henri was born. In 1938, at the age of six, he moved to Rhyl.[2] He studied art at King's College (now Newcastle University)