Andrew Mitchell
- Born in West Yorkshire, UK
- Writes narrative sequences of poems
- Creates inter-disciplinary performances including music and dance
- Believes the right place for poetry is combined with other art forms
- Work illustrated by Mary Kuper since 2009
- Poems arranged for performance: Darwin, A Voyage of Ideas; The Burial of Lord Byron; Villa Diodati (Frankenstein); Written in Water (Keats)
- Current writing, A Paradise of Exiles is on the lives and work of the younger English Romantic Poets
- Darwin and Byron pamphlets in the V & A National Art Archive as examples of poetry and illustration
- For examples of work see: www.youtube.com/wordworthywriting
- Honorary Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester
News:
Elergy for Keats and Shelley
In December 2021 at the University of Leicester two of my poems were brought together to remember the deaths of Keats and Shelley. ‘Keats in Rome’ follows Keats to his death in that city. ‘On Adonais’ marks Keats’s burial, Shelley’s … Continue reading
Video of Performance at Keats-Shelley House in Rome
Keats’s Odes from my long narrative poem, “Written in Water”, performed at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome on October 3rd, 2019. Apart from the second musical number (the Kalea Trio’s arrangement of Sainte-Colombe’s Chaconne), the music is performed and composed/improvised … Continue reading
Villa Diodati (Frankenstein)
A new video on my youtube channel. The story of how Mary Shelley came to write Frankenstein is told in this live performance at The British Library, London, on 20 October, 2018. Continue reading
Written in Water
The long narrative Written in Water, on John Keats’s life, work and ideas, begins performances at The British Library, London, to celebrate the bicentenary of his Odes on 20 September, 2019. This performance will be repeated at Keats-Shelley House, Rome, … Continue reading
Villa Diodati
Link to the British Library page detailing the event.
There will be performances of this poem on the conception of Frankenstein at the British Library on Tuesday 30 October and at Keats House on Thursday 15 November. Continue reading
Reading at Leicester University
As an honorary fellow of the University, attached to the centre for new writing, I will be reading a narrative poem in progress “Young John Keats” at the Bennett lecture theatre on Tuesday 31st October. For details look to the listing on my events page. Continue reading
Performance in Gdansk
Performance on 1st July 2015 of The Burial of Lord Byron to an international audience of scholars to open the 41st International Byron Conference in the Shakespeare Theatre, Gdansk, Poland. Dancers, mezzo-soprano and pianist were from the Academy of Music, … Continue reading
Darwin and the Voyage of HMS Beagle
November 12 2014 11.30-12.30 sees a return to the Literary Leicester Festival with a performance of Darwin and the Voyage of HMS Beagle Continue reading
V&A London’s National Art Library
Following publication of ‘The Burial of Lord Byron’ this has joined ‘Darwin, A Voyage of Ideas’ in the National Art Archive at the V&A Continue reading
The One Show BBC 1 on Delius
April saw an appearance on BBC Television’s The One Show to talk about the composer Frederick Delius and his music On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring – see my web page. June saw the publication of my latest poem … Continue reading
Current News
Readings and publications are due to happen in 2013. Here are selected items: Delius: The Delius poem from the Saltaire sequence is to be recorded along with talk of Delius’s links with Ilkley, for BBC Television’s ‘The One Show’ in … Continue reading
Death of Professor Derick Thomson
Derick died aged 90 on 21 March 2012. His enormous contribution to Gaelic culture has been recorded in the press. My own special memory is taking him back to the Isle of Lewis with Iain Crichton Smith to make a … Continue reading
Fortnightly Review
My article on Wordsworth and Coleridge is to be found on the Fortnightly Review web site Continue reading
Pictures from Galloway
Following a photo Shoot on the Solway with Scottish harpist Wendy Stewart, we recorded some of the Taking You Home poems, which are now on You Tube at wordworthywriting and can be seen on the Taking You Home page of … Continue reading