An erotic journey over the fells to a coastal meditation on winter.
Tom Pickard (born 1946, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a poet, and documentary film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival. Pickard grew up in the working-class suburbs of Cowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, and left school at the age of fourteen. Three years later he met Basil Bunting and was instrumental in the older poet's return to writing in the early 1960s. In 1963, Pickard founded and ran the Morden Tower Book Room where he organized a series of readings by British and American modernist tradition poets, including Bunting. He also set up the Ultima Thule Bookshop - specializing in poetry, music and alternative counter-culture publications - between 1969 and 1973. His publications include High on the Walls (1968), The Order of Chance (1971) and Hero Dust: New and Selected Poems (1979).
