Fifty years ago, while an Oxbridge student, he founded New Departures, a magazine dedicated to new poetry. Kerouac's On The Road had just come out, CND marches were starting, Trad Jazz was the Alt. Rock of its day. Michael was the first man to publish extracts of William Burroughs.
As the Sixties got going he was one of the poets at the famous Albert Hall poetry event in 1965. He's captured for ever in Peter Whitehead's film of the event, Wholly Communion.
Over the years he's put on various events - most of which lost money - but his phone book is a who's-who of the Sixties counter culture and beyond
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