Iain Sinclair's Blog, page 11

“Travellers should look for the man at Panopolis”

The last word & testament of CHRIS PETIT, ‘Coming Down In Berlin’, will be available ONLY at London City Airport on Sunday May 21 between 12:30 and 15:30. Travellers should look for the man at Panopolis with a copy of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte’s The Book Is A Ghost, and approach him with a request for ‘End Times Healing’.

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The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City will be published in September.

News of a new book that will be published in September.

 

The Last London: No coffee stored overnight

Listen to Iain’s talking about The Last London.

 

 

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n07/iain-si...

 

 

At the Ipswich Institute Reading Room on March 22nd for the Suffolk Book League

Iain Sinclair will be appearing at the Ipswich Institute Reading Room  (15 Tavern Street, IP1 3AA) on Wednesday 22nd March  as part of the Suffolk Book League’s 2017 programme of events.  Doors open at 7.00pm with the event starting at 7.30pm. Entrance fee is £4 for members of the Suffolk Book League and £8 [...]

London Overground screening at the London Transport Museum

One could not think of a more appropriate venue for this move. Long overdue!

London Overground film screening

Date: Thursday 16 March 2017 Location: Covent Garden Time: 19:00 – 21:00 Tickets: Adults £10; Concessions and LTM Friends £8

Book tickets

Join us for a special screening of the film London Overground, retracing legendary London writer Iain Sinclair’s journey with [...]

Interviews (Barcelona)

Iain’s visit to Barcelona back at the end of 2016 did not go unnoticed by local media.

A series of links to interviews to Iain:

http://revistadeletras.net/iain-sincl...

http://www.altairmagazine.com/voces/v...

http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2016...

http://www.ara.cat/cultura/Thatcher-d...

http://www.lainformacion.com/reino-un...

http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/iain-...

http://www.aldia.cat/arts/noticia-iai...

http://www.bolsamania.com/noticias/cu...

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ALAN MOORE – COMETH THE MOMENT, COMETH THE MANDRILL

ALAN MOORE – COMETH THE MOMENT, COMETH THE MANDRILL

AVAILABLE NOW

Delighted to announce that the fourth edition in the Post-Nearly Press conversations series will be the great ALAN MOORE and Cometh The Moment, Cometh The Mandrill. As usual it’s from a live, face-to-face conversation, and is a print-only, limited edition item. The [...]

Spirits of place

Stories are embedded in the world around us; in metal, in brick, in concrete, and in wood. In the very earth beneath our feet. Our history surrounds us and the tales we tell, true or otherwise, are always rooted in what has gone before. The spirits of place are the echoes [...]

Winter Lectures 2017: The Last London

Friday 10 February, 18.30 BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum

‘But sometimes,’ Don DeLillo wrote, ‘the street spills over me, too much to absorb, and I have to stop thinking and keep walking.’ Iain Sinclair considers an old city stretched to the point of erasure, and a walker disappearing into the labyrinth of his own footprints.

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Sulphur

Sulphur is a short movie.

It merges documentary and horror, diving head first into the ceremonial weirdness of bonfire night in Lewes, Sussex. An annual event of ritual, anti-catholicism, errant fireworks and some healthy hostility between locals and outsiders.

 The shoot involved sending two crews and two actors into the furnace to [...]