AFTER a successful career in theatre and television, during which he won seven awards as director, including an International Emmy in New York and Bafta nomination in London, Adrian Brown has turned his energies towards an earlier love – writing poetry.
His preferred form is for the longer, sustained, poem, both serious and humorous. After his first publication, Sahara, a picaresque humorously-reflective narrative of travel, he published Fathomed Depths and A Blast of Blasphemy.
His latest work, The Ram in the Thicket, was given its world premiere reading at the Indian Literature Festival in Delhi.
He wrote an elegy for Terence Rattigan, delivered at St Paul’s, the actors’ church in Covent Garden, when a tree was planted to commemorate the playwright.
In his work as a television director, Adrian has featured numerous poets, including the only interview given by Ted Hughes and the luminous study of Emily Dickinson, The Belle of Amherst, which starred Claire Bloom and won an Emmy.
As usual, the Petersfield Write Angle event at 7.30pm next Tuesday (August 21) will include an open mic session for poets and musicians. Entry is £6 on the door. For details, visit: www.petersfieldwriteangle.co.uk