Poets Against the Bomb

Chelsea Old Town Hall, April 15,1981. Pete Brown. List of poets and poems. Adrian Henri (Death in the Suburbs). Adrian Mitchell. Nicki Jackowska. Roy Fisher.Phyllis King. Judith Kazantsis. Ruth Fainlight. Ivor Cutler sings Counting Song. Eddie Linden. Gavin Ewart. Brian Patten.Pete Brown sings, accompanied by Ian Lynn (piano). Harold Pinter reads John Donne.Adrian Henri (Galactic Love Poem). Audience leaving. CND march with Pete Brown and Jim Mullen (piano) over. Credits. Ivor Cutler reads Ten Years.

Poems:
There will probably be a Nuclear War in the next Ten Years, Pete Brown,
Death in the Suburbs, Adrian Henri;
Requirements in a Shelter, Adrian Mitchell;
Sometimes Love, Nicki Jackowska;
Paraphrases, Roy Fisher;
When I was, Phyllis King;
Progenitor, Judith Kazantsis;
Trees, Ruth Fainlight;
Counting Song, Ivor Cutler;
Hampstead by Night, Eddie Linden;
Office Friendships, Gavin Ewart;
Interruption at the Opera House, Brian Patten;
A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day, being the Shortest Day, John Donne, read by Harold Pinter;
Galactic Love Poem, Adrian Henri;
Ten Years, Ivor Cutler;
In the Later Days of Time, Pete Brown & Ian Lynn;
Thousands on a Raft, Pete Brown & Jim Mullen;
POETS AGAINST THE BOMB
was chaired by Judith Radstone who organised the event with Kensington & Chelsea CND.
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