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NOTES FOR A PROPOSED JOURNEY OF RESEARCH. LIMA TO CHICLA TO THE RIVER PERENE. JUNE – JULY 2019

BLACKBAG TOURISM & OTHER HERESIES

NOTES FOR A PROPOSED JOURNEY OF RESEARCH. LIMA TO CHICLA TO THE RIVER PERENE. JUNE – JULY 2019.

For many years I fantasised about following, after the fashion of Werner Herzog at his most demented, the map of my great-grandfather Arthur Sinclair’s yearlong expedition to the Chanchamayo [...]

Peru Podcasts

Iain is embarking on a new adventure with his daughter Farne.

You can read more here: https://www.gofundme.com/the-peru-pod... and you also have a chance to support this new adventure. 

Iain wrote:

I’m also offering a signed copy of whatever book emerges for all contributors.

 

London, list of WIFI networks, circa 2012

I like to think of this screenshot from an old phone of mine as wifi-archeology

News from Purge, two events and more…

THE PRE-INAUGURAL VINYL FROM PURGE.XXX WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF A PRE-LAUNCH AT CLOSE-UP

THIS FRIDAY DECEMBER 7 AND THE EVENT IS FREE TO MEMBERS

presented live by Stanley SCHTINTER & Gareth EVANS

closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes...

 

SUNDAY DECEMBER 9 PURGE.XXX will be in two places at once from midday to 6pm:

(1) CAFE OTO for [...]

Belated 10th anniversary

I just realised that this website has been around for over 10 years, in fact it started in June 2008.

Happy 10th anniversary!

A huge thank you to Iain for letting me create this website and for feeding it with details about his work and his life.

 

Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts, a review

One of the advantages of working 12 hours a day is that one can miss almost anything else other than work.

For example the fact that Iain just published not one, but two new books!

I missed the opportunity to even announce these books post-publication.

Here is a review… “The Urban Wanderer” on a website [...]

Iain appointed as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence by The University of Surrey School of Literature and Languages

News of Iain being appointed as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence by the University of Surrey, School of Literature and Languages:

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/interna...\

 

A recording of “Tottering State” now available

There is a YouTube record of the ‘Tottering State’ readings at the Horse Hospital. A film made by Derek Smith. It seems, these days, that everything is recorded. Fallible memory records are going out of fashion.

Glastonbury William Blake Festival

Greetings from Glastonbury.   I thought it would be good to let Iain’s readers know about the upcoming Blake festival here.   Allen Ginsberg seems to want to make his presence known.   We have a musical evening on Aug 10th and discovered, after it was arranged, that it was on that very date, 50 [...]

“London Overground” is now available on YouTube

John Rogers has put up LONDON OVERGROUND on YouTube.