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Iain on BBC London 94.9 – Robert Elms

Iain will be on the Robert Elms Show on BBC London on Friday 5th at 12.30

Everything you need to know about London from architecture to accents and great music.

Source: BBC London 94.9 – Robert Elms

@ The Freud Museum: London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line

4 June 2015 7pm – doors open at 6.30pm

London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line Author’s Talk: Iain Sinclair

Acclaimed author, Iain Sinclair joins us to discuss his latest book London Overground – a living history of London told through a long day’s hike around the London Overground route, by Britain’s master [...]

Al Robertson and Jon Wallace at Forbidden Planet @ ForbiddenPlanet.com

Our friend Al Robertson’s first book, “Crashing Heaven”, will be out on 18th of June. Al will be signing books on the 25th at Forbidden Planet in London. Source: Al Robertson and Jon Wallace at Forbidden Planet @ ForbiddenPlanet.com

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London Overground – A day’s walk around the ginger line

Iain’s new book “London Overground” will be published on 4th of June.

Available also in Kindle format.

Pre-order now

The Vorrh by B Catling review – ‘one of the most original works of visionary fiction since Mervyn Peake’ | Books | The Guardian

A sentient forest older than mankind is the setting for an extraordinary fantasy

Source: The Vorrh by B Catling review – ‘one of the most original works of visionary fiction since Mervyn Peake’ | Books | The Guardian

“By Our Selves” at the Hackney Picture House – special screening + Q&A

UK premiere of Andrew Kötting’s film By Our Selves, which retraces English poet John Clare’s journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in Clare’s footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Macgillivray, Dr Simon Kovesi and the wizard Alan Moore. Meantime [...]

CONDUCTORS OF CHAOS

*PLEASE NOTE THAT IAIN IS NOT APPEARING AT THIS EVENT*

We examine the work of the poetry outsiders gathered in Conductors of Chaos (Picador).

Last year saw the announcement of the 2014 Next Generation Poets, 20 poets promoted as the ones ‘expected to dominate the poetry landscape of the coming decade’.

In 1996, partly in response to [...]

Of Film and Smoke: An Interview with Iain by Paul McRandle on Rain Taxi

Source: Of Film and Smoke: An Interview with Iain Sinclair | Rain Taxi

Black Apple of Gower, Little Toller Books – out in July 2015

An enigmatic series of paintings by Ceri Richards, based on the theme of the ‘Black Apple of Gower’, is the provocation for Iain Sinclair’s return to the landscape of his childhood and youth. Best-known for his journeys through London or circumnavigations of the M25, here we find him digging into memory files to realise [...]

Vanishing Point: Goodbye for now

Vanishing Point is a pop-up digital magazine that tells stories you haven’t heard from places you know well and places you’ll discover. Based at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, Vanishing Point amplifies you through a variety of media, challenging the idea of the document through current and powerful work. Learn more.

Five stories in six days. How’s [...]