Angela Carter, the Beatles, and the Camp Explosion of the 1960s

Lecture no. 2

Dear Heart,

Recently I reviewed a new biography for the music magazine The Wire. The book was Ivor Cutler: A Life Outside the Sitting Room and was full of fascinating details about the eccentric Scottish songwriter and poet.¹ One was Cutler’s stint as a cartoonist for Private Eye. Another was his time in Suffolk – where I write this now – as a teacher at …