Born in Birkenhead.

Family moves to Rhyl, North Wales (A.H.’s father employed as entertainments organiser at Sunnyvale holiday camp)

Vale Road County Primary School

Emmanuel Secondary Modern School, Rhyl

St. Asaph Grammar School. Fellow pupil Philip Jones Griffiths (Magnum photographer best known for his Vietnam pictures) becomes a long-life friend

Member of Rhyl Children’s Theatre

King’s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, University of Durham Department of Fine Art. Lecturers include: Lawrence Gowing, Roger de Grey, Victor Pasmore, Richard Hamilton.

Teacher, Catholic College for Boys, Preston

Meets Joyce Wilson

Returns to Liverpool

Goes to Rhyl each summer to work in the fairground

Scenic artist, Liverpool Playhouse

Marries Joyce Wilson (divorced 1974)

Teacher, Chorlton Grammar School and Cheadle Hulme School, Manchester

Teacher, Warwick Bolam County Secondary School, Netherton, Liverpool

First exhibition: Liverpool Academy Open, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

In Rhyl, meets Mike Evans (later member of The Clayton Squares and The Liverpool Scene)

Exhibitions:

Five Painters (Adrian Henri, Henry Graham, Alan Wood, Don McKinlay, Anthony Collinge), Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

Spring Exhibition, Cartwright Hall, Bradford

Meets Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Spike Hawkins and Pete Brown

Poetry Readings, Liverpool

Part-time Lecturer, Manchester College of Art (Foundation Course)

Exhibition:

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Reads magazine article by Alan Kaprow on Happenings

Begins painting The Entry of Christ into Liverpool City, event, with McGough and John Gorman for the Merseyside Arts Festival, Hope Hall, Liverpool

Death of a Bird in the City, event, with McGough and Gorman for the Merseyside Arts Festival, Hope Hall, Liverpool

Exhibition:

Adrian Henri and Sam Walsh, Portal Gallery, London and Hope Hall, Liverpool

The Machine, event with McGough and Gorman for the Merseyside Arts Festival, Hope Hall, Liverpool

Paintings, Daffodils, Milkbottles, Hats, event with McGough and Gorman for the Merseyside Arts Festival, Hope Hall, Liverpool

Man, event with McGough and Gorman for the Merseyside Arts Festival, Hope Hall, Liverpool

Nightblues, event with Brian Patten and The Roadrunners, Hope Hall, Liverpool

Exhibition:

Pop Art, Midland Group, Nottingham New Images from the North, Hope Hall, Liverpool (organised by Adrian Henri for the Merseyside Arts Festival)

Lecturer Liverpool College of Art (Foundation Course)

Bomb, event, with The Clayton Squares, The Cavern, Liverpool Night: a poem with and without words, event, with Brian Patten, Hope Hall, Liverpool

Exhibitions:

Open Exhibition, The Ulster Museum, Belfast

Arts Council of Northern Ireland £200 prize winner

Spring, event with the Clayton Squares, Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool

Black and White Show, event, with The Clayton Squares, The Excelles, Billy Butler and Bob Wooler, The Cavern, Liverpool

Exhibitions:

Industry and the Artist, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 5, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Clement Greenberg was one of the Jury that year)

Meets Edward Lucie-Smith researching The Liverpool Scene

Film for ‘New Release’ BBC Television by Liz Kustow

The Mersey Sound, collection of poems with Roger McGough and Brian Patten, published by Penguin (Penguin Modern Poets N°10)

The Liverpool Scene, edited by Edward Lucie-Smith published by Rapp & Carroll Love Night, event, The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool

Poetry/Rock Group The Liverpool Scene formed with Andy Roberts, Mike Evans, Percy Jones, Brian Dobson and Mike Hart.

LP The Incredible New Liverpool Scene, with Brian Dodson, Roger McGough and Andy Roberts.

Exhibitions:

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 6, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Art in a City, I.C.A., London

Resigned from Liverpool College of Art

Meets Susan Sterne

First Visit to Le Thil, Normandy, to stay with John and Ann Willett. Returned there most summers thereafter until 1998.

Tonight at Noon, published by Rapp & Whiting

I Wonder, Guillaume Apollinaire play written with Mike Kustow, performed at the ICA, London

Revolution, Revolution, Revolution, performance by The Liverpool Scene, with Adrian Mitchell and Christopher Logue, The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool

LP Amazing Adventures of… The Liverpool Scene

Exhibitions:

ICA Gallery, London (solo show).

New Institute Gallery, Birmingham (solo show)

Midland Group, Nottingham (solo show)

Poetry Posters, Brighton Festival and Fulham Gallery, London

Biennale della Giovane Pittura, Milan

Meets Nell Dunn and begins writing I want

North West Arts Association Writers on Tour

City published by Rapp & Whiting

The Liverpool Scene, performances at the Bath Festival and the Isle of Wight Festival and subsequent tour to America

The Liverpool Scene, UK tour with Led Zeppelin

LP Bread on the Night, The Liverpool Scene, released by RCA

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

The Liverpool Scene, series for Granada Television

Exhibition:

Leeds Art Centre (solo show)

Death of parents and grandparents. Ordered to rest for six months due to ill-health

Break up of The Liverpool Scene

Poems for Wales and Six Landscapes for Susan, Arc Press

Autobiography, Poems N°s 1-15 commissioned for the City of London Festival Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam (Henri returns regularly to give poetry readings until 1996)

Cultural Bingo, Performance/event/environment, Great Georges Project, Great George Street, Liverpool. Game devised by Bill Harpe

St Adrian Co., Broadway and 3rd The Liverpool Scene, released on the RCA record label.

Cover design by Adrian Henri

Heirloon, The Liverpool Scene, released on the RCA record label.

Henri and Friends, tour of Norway

Exhibitions:

Aargh! The Spirit of the Comics, RCA Gallery, London

Grub, children’s workshop with Susan Sterne, ICA Gallery, London

Visiting Lecturer, Bradford and Wolverhampton Polytechnics.

Meets Frances Hambidge

Autobiography, published by Jonathan Cape

Writers on Tour, North West Arts Association

Grimms, roadshow formed with McGough, Gorman, Mike McGear, Neil Innes, Vivien Stanshall, Zoot Money, Mike Giles and others (Keith Moon one night!).

Tour to Ireland, Scotland, Norway and South West England

Exhibition:

Peterloo Gallery, Manchester (solo show)

President of The Liverpool Academy of Arts Summer in Much Wenlock

I Want, written with Nell Dunn, published by Jonathan Cape America, published by Turret Books

I Want, writers tour with Nell Dunn

Poetry International, Rotterdam (reading)

Henri and Friends in Concert, a tour with Alan Peters, Phil Harrison, Stuart Gordon, Mike Giles, Vivien Stanshall, John Porter and Valerie Movie

Recollections, Liverpool Scene LP released by Charisma

UK tour with Grimms

Autobiography Part I, BBC Television

Exhibitions:

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2nd Prize winner Christmas Cakes, with Susan Sterne, a project for children at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Visiting Lecturer, Bradford Polytechnic

Meets Carol Ann Duffy

Writing courses at the Arvon Foundation at Totleigh Barton (held Regularly thereafter)

Poet-in-Residence, Lanchester Festival, Coventry

Reading tour of South West England, West Midlands, the USA and Canada Autobiography, recorded (unissued) with music by Alan Peters, Phil Harrison and Stuart Gordon

Henri and Friends in Concert, BBC Radio Merseyside

Yesterday’s Girl, play for Granada Television

Exhibition:

Pen as Pencil, Brussels Communication, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Visiting Lecturer, Bradford Polytechnic

Poet-in-Residence, Lanchester Festival, Coventry

Environments and Happenings, published by Thames and Hudson

The Mersey Sound, revised edition published by Penguin

Reading tours of Scotland, Lincolnshire, Germany and Holland.

The Liverpool Scene, revival tour with Andy Roberts, Mike Hart, Dave Richards and Mike Kellie

Window Event, Claud Gill Books, Oxford Street, London, to publicise Environments and Happenings

November Dreams with friends from Bradford Polytechnic Community Arts Department, event for ‘Building Sights’ series, Great Georges Project, The Blackie, Liverpool

Exhibitions:

Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (with Susan Sterne)

Five Realist Painters, Sunderland Arts Centre

Birthday Gardens, Academy Gallery, Liverpool (solo show)

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Visiting Lecturer in Film and Publications, Bradford Polytechnic (Department of Community Arts)

CNAA Assessor, Wolverhampton and Leeds Polytechnics

Writing courses for the Arvon Foundation, Lumb Bank (held regularly thereafter) The Best of Henri, published by Jonathan Cape

Arts Council of Great Britain Writer’s Tour of Humberside and North West England Haiku, printed by the Anvil Press, Liverpool

Birmingham Festival of Performance Art, with Rob Con, Ian Hinchcliffe and Marty St James

Exhibitions:

Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead (solo show)

The Face of Merseyside, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Visiting Lecturer, Bradford Polytechnic CNAA Assessor, Wolverhampton and Leeds Polytechnics

Readings at the Edinburgh Festival with Roger McGough and Brian Patten Bicentennial Poetry Tour of the USA

One Year, Arc Publications

Liverpool Realist Painters presented by Adrian Henri for Arena BBC2

Exhibitions:

Paintings and Drawings, 1960-1976, Wolverhampton Art Gallery (solo show) Hedges, Gardens and Other Places, Art Net, London (solo show)

CNAA Assessor, Wolverhampton and Leeds Polytechnics

In Rome for Liverpool FC’s European Cup Final victory.

City Hedges: Poems 1970-76 published by Jonathan Cape. Cover photographs by Susan Sterne

Beauty & the Beast, with Carol Ann Duffy, published by The Glasshouse Press, Liverpool.

Readings in Holland and at the Edinburgh Festival with Roger McGough and Brian Patten Performance Art, a programme for BBC Television’s Schools Service

Exhibitions:

Ibis Gallery, Leamington Spa

Peter Moores, Real Life, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

100, A centenary exhibition for the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Artists of the Wirral, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead

Birkenhead Arts Association Purchase Prize

Visiting Lecturer in Film and Art History, Liverpool Polytechnic

CNAA Assessor, Leeds Polytechnic

Words Without a Story, with woodcuts by Franz Masereel published by Glasshouse Press

Readings in Holland and at the Anglo-French Festival of Spoken Poetry, Paris Henri’s Hope Street Poets, a monthly series of readings, The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool

Beauty & the Beast, performance with Carol Ann Duffy, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

Watchwords, BBC 1 North West with Roger McGough, Andy Roberts, Julie Walters, Tony Haygarth and Andrew Schofield

Exhibitions:

Hedges, Debris & Other Places, Bootle Art Gallery (solo show)

Debris, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (solo show)

Liverpool Nude, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 11, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Arts Council of Great Britain Writer’s Tour of Lincolnshire and Humberside

Un Certain Art Anglais, Paris (readings)

The Big Feller, musical based on Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (unperformed)

The Funeral of Adrian Henri, performance with Rob Con and Lol Coxhill, Liverpool Pier Head and the Academy Gallery, Liverpool

Exhibitions:

Milton Keynes Festival (commission for a painting and poem)

Bolton Festival (solo show)

Poste Restante, Liverpool Academy Gallery (Mail Art)