From Mike Waite
Event on 1968 / counterculture at Burnley Literary Festival
Event on 1968 / counterculture at Burnley Literary Festival
THE
third annual Burnley Literary Festival runs from 28 September to 1
October, and features a wide range of events, including street
theatre about the campaign for womens’ suffrage, lectures on Sylvia
Plath, interactive workshops and much more:
www.burnleyliteraryfestival.co.uk
We
thought that you / your readers / people you are in contact with
could be particularly interested in one of the sessions: ‘Anarchist
poets and Burnley Wood communes: ‘1968’ counterculture around
Burnley & East Lancashire’.
This
will run at Burnley
Central Library
on Saturday
29th
September,
starting at 11.30
a.m.,
and finishing a little after 12.30.
The
key inputs will be from Tina
Morris,
a poet and children’s writer, who contributed to Michael Horovitz's
landmark anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in
Britain (Penguin Books, 1969), and Bruce
Wilkinson,
author of Hidden Culture, Forgotten History: a northern poetic
underground and its countercultural history (Penniless Press,
2017) : http://www.pennilesspress.co.uk/books/hidden_culture.htm
More
details: The
‘summer of love’ and radical counter-culture didn’t just happen
at the Woodstock music festival or amongst student protestors in
Paris. ‘1968’ and its promise of alternative lifestyles and new
progressive values drew in young people in Burnley and Blackburn.
The culture and politics of East Lancashire were enlivened by
theatrical ‘happenings’ on the streets, and a lively subculture
of poetry readings and little magazines. This session will include
discussion, reminiscence and declarations, touching on a 1960s
obscenity trial in Blackburn, and the beginnings of local
co-operative housing and environmental politics.
Tickets
are free, but must be booked in advance:
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