Adelle Stripe is a poet from Tadcaster

Tadcaster

Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. Lying on the Great North Road approximately east of Leeds and west of York. It is the last town on the River Wharfe before it joins the River Ouse about downstream...

, North Yorkshire. In 2006, alongside Tony O'Neill

Tony O'Neill

Tony O'Neill is a New York-based author. A one time musician with Kenickie , Marc Almond , The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Kelli Ali , O'Neill is also the author of several books including Digging The Vein 2006, Down and Out on Murder Mile 2008 and Sick City 2010.Digging the Vein was a novel...

  and Ben Myers

Ben Myers

Ben Myers is an English writer.His first novel The Book Of Fuck, a fictionalised account about a hapless music journalist, was published to underground acclaim in 2004 through Wrecking Ball Press. Myers claimed it was written in six days "as a joke"...

 she formed possibly the first literary movement spawned via a social networking site, The Brutalists

Brutalists

Brutalism is a literary movement formed in 2006 by three writers from the north of England , and may have been the first literary movement to be launched via the social networking site Myspace where it announced itself with the following manifesto:"Brutalism calls for writing that touches upon...

, who the BBC described as a 'group of young writers with a back-to-basics approach to poetry.' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11476328

Noted as a 'kitchen sink realist' poet by the Spanish daily newspaper ABC http://www.abc.es/20090126/cultura-literatura/estoy-contra-ello-200901261540.html she is affiliated with the Offbeat generation

Offbeat generation

The Offbeat generation was a loose association of like-minded writers working across different styles but united by their opposition to a mainstream publishing industry driven by marketing departments...

, and has published two solo collections Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid and Cigarettes in Bed. Stripe's Brutalist works include Brutalism 1: Nowhere Fast http://www.captainsof.com/release_capt045.php and Brutalism 2: Cheap Thrills Issue 24 of Mineshaft Magazine

Mineshaft Magazine

Mineshaft is an independent international art magazine launched in 1999 by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri in Guilford, Vermont. Initially focusing on poetry and literature, the magazine began to publish comics after Robert Crumb became a contributor in 2000...

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External links

Published Works

• Cigarettes In Bed, Blackheath Books, UK First Edition, 2009. ISBN - 978-1-906099-17-6
• Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid, Blackheath Books, UK First Edition, 2008. ISBN - 978-1-906099-09-1
• 3:AM London, New York, Paris, Anthology, Social Disease, UK First Edition, 2008. ISBN - 978-0955282959 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0955282950
• Brutalism One: Nowhere Fast, Captains of Industry Press, UK First Edition, 2008.
• Dwang, Poetry Anthology, Tangerine Press, UK First Edition, 2009. ISBN - 978-0-9553402-3-9

Interviews and Articles

• Verbal Arts Magazine Interviewhttp://www.verbalartscentre.co.uk/verbalmagazine/interviews/v13-Brutalists.html
• Web Publishing and The Brutalists / Guardian Books http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2007744,00.html
• The Brutalists and Offbeat Generation / Guardian Books http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/07/the_rise_and_rise_of_the_bruta.html
• Read Adelle Stripe's articles on Fifth Estate
• National Poetry Day BBC interview