Chris Vine and Chris Torrance

Chris Torrance (born 1941) is a poet and musician associated with the British Poetry Revival. Born in Edinburgh, Torrance grew up in London and moved to remote rural Wales in 1970. He taught creative writing at the Cardiff University from 1976 to 1998. He performs with the poetry and music group Poetheat, which he co-founded in 1985 and which is now called Heat Poets. Torrance is a self-styled 'hippie' and his work shows the influence of the Beats