Saltire Situationism
The high modernism of Glasgow novelist Alexander Trocchi has often been overshadowed by his low living. As we mark the centenary of his birth, can we discern a meaning-ful literary legacy beyond his associations with existentialism, Situationism, and counterculture?
Alexander Trocchi, Allen Ginsberg, Adrian Mitchell, Anselm Hollo, and Harry Fainlight about to take part in the International Poetry Incarnation, a 1965 event consisting mainly of poetry readings and tape performances at the Royal Albert Hall (Photo by M. Stroud / Daily Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
In 1961, at a bus station in Montreal, a young poet was waiting to meet an esteemed writer. The writer’s second novel, published the year before, had gained positive notices from William Burroughs and Norman Mailer. But now he was on the run from a death penalty notice, his heroin prescription having been found in […]
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