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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Pickard (born 1946, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a poet, radio and film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival.Pickard left school at the age of fourteen. He met Basil Bunting and was instrumental in the older poet's return to writing in the early 1960s.From 1963 to 1972, Pickard ran the Morden Tower Book Room, where he organised a series of readings by British and American modernist tradition poets. He also ran the Ultima Thule Bookshop between 1969 and 1973. During this period, he also travelled in the United States to renew friendships with some of the American Morden Tower readers, including Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Ed Dorn.

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