Adrian Clarke is a contemporary British poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

. His collections include Skeleton Sonnets (Writers Forum, 2002), Former Haunts (Veer Books, 2004), and Possession: Poems 1996-2006 (Veer/Writers Forum Books, 2007).

First published by Eric Mottram

Eric Mottram

Eric Mottram was a teacher, critic, editor and poet who was one of the central figures in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life and education:...

 in the Poetry Review winter 1972-73 issue, Clarke resurfaced in the mid-1980s with Reading Reverdy and Ghost Measures from Paul Brown's Actual Size press. Then began a long association with Bob Cobbing

Bob Cobbing

Bob Cobbing was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life:...

 and Writers Forum which included co-editing AND magazine from 1994. Clarke also co-edited Floating Capital with Robert Sheppard in 1991. After Cobbing's death in 2002, Clarke ran Writers Forum jointly with Lawrence Upton

Lawrence Upton

Lawrence Upton is a poet, graphic artist and sound artist, currently directing Writers Forum. Upton is remarkable for the range of his genres and forms; and for the political savvy of his writing. He is a performer, continuing and expanding the performance tradition of, amongst others, Bob Cobbing...

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A frequent performer of his poetry, he was also part of the performance duo Strèss, with the poet and composer Virginia Firnberg. He lives in Whitstable, Kent in the South of England.

See also

• Angel Exhaust
  Angel Exhaust
  Angel Exhaust is a British poetry magazine founded by Steve Pereira and Adrian Clarke in the late 1970s. Andrew Duncan took over as editor in 1992, and by 1993 it was one of the first poetry magazines to appear regularly on the internet.-Editors:...
  
  
• British Poetry Revival
  British Poetry Revival
  The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.-Beginnings:...
  
  
• Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology
  Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology
  Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Iain Sinclair, and published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Picador. In a backhanded piece of self-justification, Sinclair in the Introduction wrote that...
  
  
• Writers Forum

Further reading

• Adrian Clarke, A Response to Chris Hamilton-Emery
• Adrian Clarke, Time in the School of Cobbing
• Andrew Duncan, Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry (2005)
• Andrew Duncan, The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry (Salt 2003)
• Andrew Duncan, Review of Extreme Noise Cold Waveband Django il Bastardo Blink: Obscure Disasters
• David Miller and Richard Price, British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of "Little Magazines" (2006)
• Robert Sheppard, The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and its Discontents, 1950-2000 (Liverpool University Press 2005)
• Scott Thurston, Interview with Adrian Clarke, Poetry Salzburg Review 5 (Autumn 2003)