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Granta Presents: Will Self and Iain Sinclair on JG Ballard

25th November 2014, 7pm. Tickets £8 including a glass of wine.

Granta Presents: Will Self and Iain Sinclair on JG Ballard

To celebrate the launch of Granta 129: Fate two of Britain’s best contemporary writers will discuss the legacy of one of our most important post-war literary figures.

Will Self has described JG Ballard’s body of work [...]

Iain @ Bread and Roses in Nottingham

 

More info can be found on the Official Website.

Dérive

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Upcoming event at Hastings Storytelling Festival

Upcoming event at Hastings Storytelling Festival on 12th November at 7pm.

Link to brochure for event: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhubtzxs1dd...

 

 

BY OUR SELVES (The Installation)

BY OUR SELVES (The Installation)

Andrew Kötting & Iain Sinclair 14 November – 14 December, Friday – Sunday from 11am – 4pm.

Preview: Sunday, 9 November from 2:30 – 4:30pm with a live performance starting promptly at 3pm.

Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and Andrew Kötting (dressed as a Straw Bear), made an eighty mile [...]

Iain at the Folkestone Triennial Conference

Iain will be a guest of a panel discussion part of the The Sculpture Question, Part 3: Encounters on Sunday 2nd of November 2014 at 16.00.

Checkout the website of the Triennial Conference

Link to a PDF with a detailed schedule for the 2 day event including Iain’s panel

Location:

Folkestone Quarterhouse Mill Bay, Folkestone [...]

Iain at “Hunt The London Author” At Hatchards

We have just heard that the event has been cancelled due to the low number of reservations.

 

From the Londonist:

“The people behind CurioCity, that elegant combination of magazine and map, are putting together just such a treasure hunt at Hatchards on Saturday. Ten Londoncentric authors — including Iain Sinclair, The Gentle Author, poet Patience Agbabi, [...]

By Our Selves: screening of a unique film project about the poet John Clare

By Our Selves: screening of a unique film project about the poet John Clare

Friday, 31 October 2014, 18:00 to 19:00

Who this event is for Everyone Location

JHB Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus

Details

 

2014 marks 150 years since the death of arguably England’s most significant poet of [...]

(updated*2) Official launch of the 70×70 book at the LRB

Finally confirmed:

http://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk...

Additional announcement by PURGE:

http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c...

DEAR FRIENDS*

THIS THURSDAY 23RD OCTOBER WE PUBLISH IAIN SINCLAIR’S NEW BOOK UNLICENSED PREACHING: A LIFE UNPACKED IN 70 FILMS (pages above)

at LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS 14 BURY PLACE LONDON WC1A 2JL

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM / CONVERSATIONS WITH Alan Moore Barrie Keeffe Colin MacCabe Andrew Kotting Chris Petit …and [...]

News from Test Centre

Big news from Test Centre: a new website, a new novel (by Stewart Home) and more.

Check out the announcement here: http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=2...