Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting #5: The Moving Times Poster, Project Sigma (1965). An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. I have a dream. It is a sunny afternoon, June, in London. For whatever reason, the sun has been popping…
Tag: Alexander Trocchi
Edward Dorn, “Notes More or Less Relevant to Burroughs and Trocchi” (1962)
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Edward Dorn’s “Notes More or Less Relevant to Burroughs and Trocchi” from Kulchur #7 (Autumn 1962). Explanation: these notes are from an accumulation of about a year — they occurred at random mostly as a result of having read The Naked Lunch and…
45th Anniversary of the International Poetry Incarnation at Royal Albert Hall
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting The 1960s began in Britain exactly forty-five years ago on 11 June 1965. The International Poetry Incarnation at Royal Albert Hall featured Alexander Trocchi, Harry Fainlight, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Anselm Hollo, Simon Vinkenoog and host of others. The disembodied voice…
An Encounter with William Burroughs at Alexander Trocchi’s Bookshop
by Robin Marchesi I met William Burroughs on two occasions. The first time was in the 70s in Chelsea London. In those days the Kings Road Chelsea was at the forefront of the new “Antique Markets” springing up in London. It was a fashionable novelty to have a “stall” displaying your particular speciality. The most…
Interview with Alex Neish, Editor of Jabberwock and Sidewalk
Jabberwock Talk: The Scottish Drug (Literature) Connection by Graham Rae Well, the internet certainly can lead you to some interesting and unexpected places. After seeing him mentioned on RealityStudio and on Nakedlunch.org, I recently became intrigued by Alex Neish, a Scotsman who put out an issue of the Edinburgh University Review entitled Jabberwock in 1959…