Tom Pickard, one of the livest truest poets of Great Britain (Allen Ginsberg), is the author of nine books of poetry spanning four decades: from High on the Walls (1968) to The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood Editions, 2007). He has, in addition, made several documentaries, including We Make Ships (1988) about labor history in the north of England and Birmingham is What I Think With (1991) about the poet Roy Fisher. With graduate poet Hillary Gravendyk holloway.english.berkeley.edu/