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Justified Sinners : An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture (1960-2000) Richly illustrated, this anthology investigates all aspects of counter culture in Scotland, tracing a timeline of seismic events, ideas and art-actions that were retranslated by each successive generation. It has a running commentary - peering into the strata of four decades, picking through the arachnological remains - in letters by Edwin Morgan, Helen Douglas, Stephen Willats, Malcolm Dickinson and Craig Richardson. The book surveys the literary avant-garde of the 1960s, when Ian Hamilton Finlay and Edwin Morgan were influential in the international Concrete Poetry and Sound poetry movement, Alexander Trocchi was a leading light in the counter cultural scene in Paris, New York and London, and Tom McGrath was in London editing the seminal journal of counter culture, "International Times". It then moves on to the adventurous art scene that gravitated to the Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh in the 1970s, with Joseph

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