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The counter-culture was global - or so we thought. For the first time we felt in touch with California and Paris, Poland and India and together we would change the world. Even Edinburgh would move to a more open and humane and anarchic direction. It and we would be a tonic to the nation and the very idea of 'nation' would become irrelevant.
Scottish culture believed itself to be 'European' but surely it gloried in a powerful insularity too. And that was all to be moribund, this was a brave new
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― Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000
― Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000
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Yes, I go along with the idea of a Scottish Spring. It was genuinely a time of beginnings, a time of openings, and I always felt that those who left Scotland then - eg. Kenneth White, Douglas Dunn - were too impatient and should have stayed. New international configurations - Sottish-American, Scottish-Russian, Scottish-Brazilian - appeared. New genres like concrete poetry and sound-poetry challenged a fair amount of opposition. I remember Hugh MacDiarmid growling in 1970 "I'd hate an Ian Finlay
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― Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000
― Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000
