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Adrian Henri (10 April 1932 – 20 December 2000) was a British poet and painter best remembered as the founder of poetry-rock group the Liverpool Scene and as one of three poets in the best-selling anthology The Mersey Sound, along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough. The trio of Liverpool poets came to prominence in that city's Merseybeat zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. He was described by Edward Lucie-Smith in British Poetry since 1945 as the "theoretician" of the three. His characterisation of popular culture in verse helped to widen the audience for poetry among 1960s British youth. He was influenced by the French Symbolist school of poetry and surrealist art.

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Although well known as an English poet, who burst onto the popular scene around the 1960s and 1970s, Adrian Henri was also an artist whose work was exhibited at galleries both during his lifetime and after his death.  He was fortunate to study art at Kings College, Newcastle under such noted tutors as Lawrence Gowring, Roger de Gray and Richard Hamilton.  It was the mid 1950s and a new generation of “pop painters” was emerging and Adrian joined them enthusiastically, producing work that sometimes had a darkly surrealistic tone, while other pieces were of the amusing variety.  As a self-confessed atheist living in a staunchly Catholic area of Liverpool he produced paintings that were designed to deliberately shock people.

Adrian’s roots could be traced back to Mauritius – his grandfather was from there. He was born in 1932, in Birkenhead, but the family moved when he was only 6 to Rhyl in North Wales.  He enjoyed a grammar school education before going to Art College in the north east.  He chose to return to the Liverpool area after that though as it was the only place he really w

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