Spike Hawkins is a British

United Kingdom

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 poet, best known for his 'Three Pig Poems', included in his one book, the Fulcrum Press

Fulcrum Press

Fulcrum Press was founded in London in the mid-1960s by medical student Stuart Montgomery and his wife Deidre. Montgomery later was an eminent neurologist and expert in depression. The press published major American and British poets in the modernist and the avant-garde traditions in carefully...

 collection The Lost Fire-Brigade (1968). He was part of the poetry scene in Liverpool during the 1960s and much of his output upholds the values of that group; short, modernistic, humorous pieces of free verse. He was published in Encounter, International Times and The Guardian.

He was a friend of Johnny Byrne; together, they formed the surreal act "Poisoned Bellows".