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I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1960s Iconic Artists Top Twenty Chart Poll

Match-Up #142
Aretha Franklin v Frank Sinatra

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This photo’s saying nothing, is black and white, opaque.
A frozen moment, not a memory.
The boyfriend with the Pentax took it for the sake
Of taking it…

—Liz Lochhead, “Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class, 1966”
published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Birlinn, 2016)

29 June is #NationalCameraDay

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/fugitive-colours/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #1960s #photograph #photography #womenwriters

Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class
Liz Lochhead

Her hair is cut into that perfect slant –
An innovation circa ‘64 by Vidal Sassoon.
She’s wearing C&A’s best effort at Quant
Ending just below the knicker-line, daisy-strewn.
Keeping herself in tights could blow her grant
Entirely, so each precious pair is soon
Spattered with nail varnish dots that stop each run.
She’s a girl, eighteen – just wants to have fun.

She’s not ‘a chick’. Not yet. Besides, by then
She’ll find the term ‘offensive’. ‘Dollybird’ to quote
Her favourite mags, is what she aspires to when
Her head’s still full of Honey and Petticoat.
It’s almost the last year that, quite this blithely, men
Up ladders or on building sites wolf-whistle to note
The approval they’re sure she will appreciate.
Why not? She did it for their benefit, looks great.

Nor does she object. Wouldn’t think she has the right.
Though when that lech of a lecturer comments on her tits
To a male classmate, openly, she might
Feel – quick as a run in nylon – that it’s
Not what ought to happen, is not polite,
She’ll burn, but smile, have no word that fits
The insult, can’t subject it to language’s prism.
In sixty-six there’s plenty sex, but not ‘sexism’.

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Soon: The Female Eunuch and enough
Will be enough. Thanks to newfound feminism and Greer,
Women’ll have the words for all this stuff,
What already rankles, but confuses her, will seem clear
And she’ll (consciously) be no one’s ‘bit of fluff’
Or ‘skirt’ or ‘crumpet’. She’ll know the rule is ‘gay’ not ‘queer’,
‘Ms’ not ‘Miss’ or ‘Mrs’ – she’ll happily obey it
And, sure as the Pill in her pocket, that’s how she’ll say it.

This photo’s saying nothing, is black and white, opaque.
A frozen moment, not a memory.
The boyfriend with the Pentax took it for the sake
Of taking it, a shot among many others, randomly,
To see how it would develop. Didn’t imagine it’d make
An image so typical it’d capture time so perfectly.
How does she feel? Hey, girl, did it feel strange
To be waiting for the a-changing times to change?

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Alan Sharp (1934–2013) is remembered today as a screenwriter, the author of classic Hollywood movies such as Ulzana’s Raid (1972) & Night Moves (1975), as well as the 1995 film Rob Roy, starring Liam Neeson. But his writing career began with the award-winning – & taboo-breaking – novel A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE. Still controversial, it is nevertheless “a flagship of 1960s Scottish prose”. Preorder the new edition now!

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-green-tree-in-gedde/

#Scottish #literature #novel #20thcentury #1960s

Book cover

A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE
Alan Sharp

White lettering against a background of bright green overlapping leaves. Between the words of the title, in much smaller lettering, are the following lines:

Here we sit
Birds in the wilderness
Down in Demerara

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🎉 NEW EDITION!

Alan Sharp (1934–2013) is remembered today as a screenwriter, the author of classic Hollywood movies such as Ulzana’s Raid (1972) & Night Moves (1975), as well as the 1995 film Rob Roy, starring Liam Neeson. But his writing career began with the award-winning – & taboo-breaking – novel A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE. Still controversial, it is nevertheless “a flagship of 1960s Scottish prose”. Order now!

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-green-tree-in-gedde/

#Scottish #literature #novel #20thcentury #1960s

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𝘓𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢, the cult 1968 Italian TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸, is “a fascinating example of how literary texts are subject to a process of endless re-interpretation, and also testifies to their transformative power”
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/talking-about-a-revolution-the-1968-italian-tv-adaptation-of-robert-louis-stevensons-the-black-arrow/

#Scottish #literature #Italiy #Italian #translation #TV #adaptation #1960s #FestadellaRepubblica #RobertLouisStevenson

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This photo’s saying nothing, is black and white, opaque.
A frozen moment, not a memory.
The boyfriend with the Pentax took it for the sake
Of taking it…

—Liz Lochhead, “Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class, 1966”
from FUGITIVE COLOURS (Birlinn, 2016)

29 June is National Camera Day 📷

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/fugitive-colours/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Sixties #1960s #photography #NationalCameraDay