Name Adelle Stripe | Role Poet | |
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Books Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid: Love and Loss in London |
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Adelle Stripe (born 1976, in York) is a poet and novelist from Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. In 2006, alongside Tony O'Neill and Ben Myers she formed possibly the first literary movement spawned via a social networking site, The Brutalists, who the BBC described as a 'group of young writers with a back-to-basics approach to poetry.' [1]
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Noted as a 'kitchen sink realist' poet by the Spanish daily newspaper ABC, [2] Stripe is affiliated with the Offbeat generation, and has published three poetry collections; Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid, Cigarettes in Bed and Dark Corners of the Land. Stripe's Brutalist works include Brutalism 1: Nowhere Fast [3] and Brutalism 2: Cheap Thrills Issue 24 of Mineshaft Magazine.

Her novel based on the life and work of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, is published by Wrecking Ball Press and Fleet. It is shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and received the Society of Authors' K Blundell Trust Award for Fiction.
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