[1] In May 1965, Allen Ginsberg arrived at Better Books, an independent bookstore in London's Charing Cross Road, and offered to read anywhere for free.
[2] Shortly after his arrival, he gave a reading at Better Books, which was described by Jeff Nuttall as "the first healing wind on a very parched collective mind".
"[3] Shortly after Ginsberg's reading at Better Books, plans were hatched for the International Poetry Incarnation.
[3] The event, organized by the filmmaker Barbara Rubin,[4][5][6] attracted an audience of 7,000 people (including Indira Gandhi) to readings and other live and tape performances by a variety of artists (mostly poets; all male) representing several different countries.
[11] Horovitz's related anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain was published by Penguin in 1969.