Harry Fainlight was a young man of rare promise when a trip to America to meet the Beat poets in the early 1960s changed his life forever. Show more

Born in India, educated at Oxford, Dom Moraes's work betrayed the melancholy of a man who never quite belonged either in India or England. Show more

WH Davies travelled the world from his native Wales, sleeping rough and jumping trains. Brian remembers a poet whose work helped set him on his own way as a writer. Show more

Rosemary Tonks published two slim volumes of poetry before disappearing from public life in the late 1970s. Brian shares his enthusiasm for her work with other contemporary poets. Show more