| Alec Craig, poet and radical |
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Thursday, 18 April 2013, 19:30 - 21:00 |
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| Alec Craig (1897-1973) was a poet, writer and radical. From a succession of modest houses in Camden, while supporting himself by working as a civil servant, Craig waged war against a morality he saw as stifling. In his evenings and at weekends, he produced an unending stream of letters, pamphlets and book proposals, on topics including the freedom of nudists, the legalisation of homosexuality and the abolition of literary censorship. Craig’s typical activities included discovering where Lord Byron became familiar with ‘unnatural intercourse’ between married couples and having the young Alan Ginsberg give a poetry reading in his flat.
Richard Espley will draw on the library and archive Craig left to Senate House Library, University of London, to explore a remarkable man’s embittered battle for universal personal and sexual freedom. |
Location: Burgh House, Hampstead, London NW3 1LT
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| Non-members welcome, one pound at the door. |
