Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- ) is an American poet, painter, social activist and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers in San Francisco. He helped to spark the San Francisco literary renaissance in the 1950’s and the ‘Beat’ Movement whose main protagonists were Jack Kerouac,  William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) was an English poet and novelist. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left, particularly the anti-bomb movement. Andrew Schelling (1953-) is a US poet and translator and the author of 15 books. Anne Waldman (1945-) is a poet and the author of forty collections; she is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement. Her poetry is recognised in the lineage of Whitman and Ginsberg (who referred to her as his ‘spiritual wife’), and in the Beat, New York School and Black Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry. She was the co-founder, with Ginsberg and Deane diPrima of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Tom Pickard (1946-), an English poet and documentary film maker who was an important figure in the British Poetry Revival movement. Michael Horovitz (1935-) an English poet founded the periodical New Departures while still a student, publishing William S. Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, and Stevie Smith. He continued to edit it for 50 years, coordinating many "Live" New Departures, Jazz Poetry SuperJams and Poetry Olympics festivals. Though initially associated with the British Poetry Revival, Horovitz became widely known on his appearance at the International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 June 1965, alongside Allen Ginsberg and Alexander Trocchi.