He is best remembered (along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough) as one of the Mersey Poets, a trio of Liverpool poets who came to prominence in that city's Merseybeat "zeitgeist" of the 1960s and 1970s.
He is best remembered for being one of the 3 poets in the best-selling anthology "The Mersey Sound", along with Brian Patten and Roger McGough. The trio of Liverpool poets came to prominence in that city's Merseybeat "zeitgeist" of the 1960s and 1970s.