Macleod, Joseph
Entry updated 11 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1903-1984) UK barrister, poet, broadcaster and author, active from before 1930; much of his poetry was published as by Adam Drinan. His sf Satire, Overture to Cambridge: A Satirical Story (1936), is based on his own unpublished play staged at the Cambridge Festival Theatre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, in 1933. Couched as a Scientific Romance, the tale eschews the Modernist bent of his poetry in its unpacking of the vision of a Utopian Britain – based insecurely on the writings of Aldous Huxley – that comes to a revolutionary orator in the instant before his death on stage. [JC]
Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod
born Ealing, Middlesex: 24 April 1903
died Florence, Italy: 22 March 1984
works
- Overture to Cambridge: A Satirical Story (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936) [hb/]
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