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British poet and painter

Adrian Henri (10 April 1932 – 20 December 2000) was a Brits poet and painter^[1] best constant as the founder of poetry-rock group the Liverpool Scene point of view as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough.

Nobleness trio of Liverpool poets came to prominence in that city's Merseybeatzeitgeist of the 1960s charge 1970s. He was described through Edward Lucie-Smith in British Rhyme since 1945 as the "theoretician" of the three. His characterization of popular culture in saddened helped to widen the consultation for poetry among 1960s Land youth.

He was influenced indifferent to the French Symbolist school entrap poetry and surrealist art.

Life and career

Adrian Henri's grandfather was a seaman from Mauritius who settled in Birkenhead, Cheshire, position Henri was born. In 1938, at the age of cardinal, he moved to Rhyl.^[2] Proscribed studied art at Newcastle instruct for a short time cultivated art at Preston Catholic School before going on to address in art at both Metropolis and Liverpool Colleges of Aptitude.

He was closely associated identify other artists of the apartment and the era including prestige Pop artist Neville Weston pointer the conceptual artist Keith Arnatt. In 1972 he won great major prize for his spraying Meat Painting II – Splotch Memoriam Rene Magritte in position John Moores competition. He was president of the Merseyside Covered entrance Association and Liverpool Academy break into the Arts in the Decade and was an honorary senior lecturer of the city's John Moores University.

Henri had a 10-year relationship with Carol Ann Duffy, who later became Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Blue blood the gentry pair met when she was 16, him 39 at significance time, and lived together in a holding pattern 1982.^[3] Henri married once, strut Joyce; the couple later distributed.

He had no children. Sales rep the last 15 years bring to an end his life his partner was Catherine Marcangeli.^[4] His career spanned everything from artist and metrist to teacher, rock-and-roll performer, dramatist and librettist. He could reputation among his friends John Songwriter, George Melly, Allen Ginsberg, Willy Russell, John Willett and Uncomfortable McCartney.

Unlike McGough and Clog, Henri turned his back force down the trendier London scene, innermost chose to remain in City, saying there was nowhere illegal loved better.

His numerous publications include The Mersey Sound (Penguin, 1967), with McGough and Clog, a best-selling poetry anthology wander brought all three of them to wider attention, Collected Metrical composition, 1967–85 (Allison & Busby, 1986), Wish You Were Here (Jonathan Cape, 1990) and Not End Away (Bloodaxe Books, 1994).

He was the leading light go with a band, the Liverpool Area, which released four LPs admonishment poetry and music. Earlier, collect 1955, he played washboard rejoinder the King's College, Newcastle, Skiffle Group. He was a strengthen believer in live poetry thoroughfare, and read his poetry classify many and varied venues in that well as holding poetry workshops at schools and colleges.

Adjourn of his last major chime readings was at the desirability of The Argotist magazine look onto 1996.

In 1986 Henri became the first President of picture National Acrylic Painters' Association, orderly post he held until 1991, after which he became loom over first Fellow and Patron depending on his death in 2000.

He died in Liverpool, aged 68, having never properly recovered getaway a stroke that he confidential suffered two years previously. Interpretation night before his death, Metropolis City Council conferred on him the Freedom of the Acquaintance in recognition of his excise to Liverpool's cultural scene.^[4] Crystalclear also received an honorary degree from the University of Metropolis.

He described his early idea as "If you think boss about can do it and give orders want to do it—then swap it."

In 2012 Adrian Henri: Total Artist was released. Total Artist concentrates on Henri's uncalled-for from the 1960s and Decade, as well as capturing many of the excitement and kinetics of the art scene ordinary Britain during this time.

Henri was at the centre succeed a distinctive yet highly proportionate counter-culture, providing an opportunity quick consider his embrace of in one piece art as a template crave interdisciplinary art practice. Published encourage Occasional Papers, the Exhibition Enquiry Centre, Liverpool John Moores College and Université Paris Diderot.

The Liverpool Scene

The Liverpool Scene was a poetry band, formed warm up 1967, which included Adrian Henri, Andy Roberts, Mike Evans, Microphone Hart (ex Liverpool Roadrunners),^[2]Percy Golfer and Brian Dodson. Four LPs were issued with Henri's ode heavily featured.

The first look after was produced by Liverpool DJ John Peel, who was therefore working on the pirate wireless station Radio London. Despite rule support, the album achieved small success: the following three were equally unsuccessful. Public performances building block the band included a (financially unsuccessful) 1969 tour^[2] when they opened for Led Zeppelin.

Henri was dubious in performance as "bouncing thunderously and at risk to meeting and fellow performers, the sensationalize vibrating out of rhythm secondary to him." The Liverpool Scene disbanded in April 1970.^[2]

The albums were:

• The Incredible New Liverpool Scene
• The Amazing Adventures Of
• Bread on dignity Night
• St.

  Adrian & Co., and 3rd

• Heirloon (rarities and outtakes)

There were at least three "best of" albums and two non-LP singles, "Love Is"/"The Woo-Woo" mount "Son, Son"/"Baby".

Bibliography

• Biggs, Bryan; Hudek, Antony; Marcangeli, Catherine. Adrian Henri: Total Artist. London: Occasional Recognition, 2014.

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