BY OUR SELVES: FIELD NOTES FROM A ROAD TRIP WITH JOHN CLARE & THE STRAW BEAR OF WHITTLESEY – by Iain Sinclair

‘Get up, you maggot!’

‘He’s dead.’

‘It’s a reconstruction. In the wrong place.’

Toby Jones, fresh from acclaimed impersonations of Alfred Hitchcock and Truman Capote, sprawls in the gutter of a Stevenage foot tunnel, channelling John Clare. And resting his weary head on a portable typewriter. Words leak everywhere. Toby has [...]