Poetry

 

1967

The Mersey Sound

Collection of poems with Roger McGough and Brian Patten, published by Penguin (Penguin Modern Poets N°10)

Click here to read ‘Batpoem’

Click here to read ‘Me’

Click here to read ‘The Entry Of Christ Into Liverpool’

Click here to read ‘The New, Fast Automatic Daffodils’

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1967

The Liverpool Scene

Edited by Edward Lucie-Smith published by Rapp & Carroll

Click here to read ‘Love Is’

Click here to read ‘Poem For Roger McGough’

 

1968

Tonight at Noon

Published by Rapp & Whiting

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1969

City

Published by Rapp & Whiting


 

1969

Adrian Henri’s Talking after Christmas Blues, with music by Wallace Southam,

Published by Turret Books

 

1970

Poems for Wales and Six Landscapes for Susan

Arc Press

 

1971

Autobiography

Published by Jonathan Cape

Click here to read an excerpt from‘Autobiography’

 

1972

America

Published by Turret Books


Click here to read ‘America’

 

1974

Penguin Modern Poets 10: The Mersey Sound

Revised edition published by Penguin


 

1974

British Poets Of Our Time
Adrian Henri, Hugo Williams

Released 1974
Argo - PLP.1194

  • Side One

1 Tonight At Noon - Love From Arthur Rainbow - Nightsong (Henri)
2 Three Poems From Autobiography (Henri)
3 Who? - Two Lullabies - Without You (Henri)
4 Galactic Love Poem - Love is... - Epilogue (Henri)

  • Side Two

1 Remembering Downwards (Williams)
2 The Stage Is Unlit (Williams)
3 Tavistock Square (Williams)
4 A Revolving Stage (Williams)
5 The North (Williams)


 

1974

British Poets Of Our Time
Adrian Henri, Hugo Williams

Released 1974
Charivari – VAR4982

  • Side One

1 Tonight At Noon
2 Liverpool Poems
3 Hello Adrian
4 A Song For New Year's Day
5 Love Is
6 In The Midnight Hour
7 Song Of The Dark Lady
8 Me
9 Peter Pan Man

  • Side Two

1 Mrs. Albion You've Got A Lovely Daughter
2 Don't Worry / Everything's Going To Be All Right
3 Metropolis
4 Scenes From The Permissive Society
5 Don't Look...
6 Butterfly
7 Wild West Poems
8 I Suppose You Think It's Funny
9 Spring Song For Mary

 

1975

The Best of Henri

Published by Turret Books


 

1975

Haiku

Printed by the Anvil Press, Liverpool

 

1976

One Year

Arc Publications

 

1977

City Hedges: Poems 1970-76

Published by Jonathan Cape. Cover photographs by Susan Sterne


 

1977

Beauty & the Beast, with Carol Ann Duffy

Published by The Glasshouse Press, Liverpool.

 

1978

Words Without a Story

With woodcuts by Franz Masereel
published by Glasshouse Press

 

1980

From the Loveless Motel

Published by Jonathan Cape.


Click here to read ‘Red Card’


 

1980

Antologia: Adrian Henri

Published by Plaza & Janes, Barcelona, Spain

 

1983

The Mersey Sound Revised Edition

With Roger McGough and Brian Patten
Published by Penguin


 

1983

New Volume

With McGough and Patten, published by Penguin


 

1983

Penny Arcade, Poems 1978-82

Published by Jonathan Cape


Click here to read ‘Adrian Henri's Talking Toxeth Blues’

Click here to read ‘Aubade, Ward E’

Click here to read ‘Colden Valley Early Spring’

 

1986

Collected Poems

Published by Allison & Busby/W.H. Allen

 

1990

Wish You Were Here

Published by Jonathan Cape


Click here to read ‘The Bell’

Click here to read ‘Crossing’

Click here to read ‘Garden Giverny’

Click here to read ‘Morning, Liverpool 8’

Click here to read ‘Morning, Sunset Heights’

Click here to read ‘Tea With the Poet’

 

1992

Souvenir of Normandy

Poem with music by Andy Roberts, premiered at the Brighton Festival

 

1994

Not Fade Away, Poems 1989-1994

Published by Bloodaxe Books


Click here to read ‘Blues For Slim’

Click here to read ‘The Cerise Swimsuit’

Click here to read ‘Fallen Appletree, Normandy’

Click here to read ‘From An Antique Land’

Click here to read ‘Love Story, Bosnia’

Click here to read ‘Poet In School’

Click here to read ‘A Poem Instead Of A Postcard’

Click here to read ‘The Parsonage, Haworth’

Click here to read ‘Snowman’

Click here to read ‘Souvenirs’

Click here to read ‘The White Ball’

Click here to read ‘Winter Garden’

 

2001

Lowlands Away

Poems and pastels for the RLPO libretto
Old School Press, Bath

 

2002

Stanotte A Mezzogiorno

Poesie Scelte 1967-2000. Italian

 

2007

Selected and Unpublished, Poems 1965-2000

Collection edited by C.Marcangeli, with a foreword by Carol Ann Duffy.
Liverpool University Press


Click here to read ‘The Day Of The Dead, Hope Street’

Click here to read ‘Death Of A Bird In The City’

Click here to read ‘Landscape, Umfolozi’

Click here to read ‘New York City Blues’

Click here to read ‘Piccadilly Poem’

Click here to read ‘Salad Poem’

Click here to read ‘We Won't Forget That’

Click here to read ‘What Were You Thinking About?’