News at Eleven: [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti, at 92, is spry,

intuitive and lively. Whilst Kerouac died in his 40s, Ginsberg at 70, and many of his contemporaries in their 80s, here is this other legend still waging war through poetry.

"I never really considered myself as a part of the Beat Generation," he says. "I was what I would regard as from an earlier Bohemia. When I arrived in San Francisco in 1953, I was still wearing a beret that I had bought in Paris. Any non-conformist writers were considered to be Bohemians.

from The Big Issue in Scotland: The Beat lives on

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