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Landscaping: Artists, Maps and Britain – British Library Conference Centre

11th September 2010

14:30 – Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair: Swandown – Ordnance and Surveying
“Swandown will be a travelogue and odyssey. A poetic film-diary about landscape and
Culture, undertaken on board a plastic swan-shaped pedalo. In the summer of 2011, multi-talented, multi-platform artist and film-maker Kötting (Gallivant, Ivul) will pedal from Swan Lake in Hastings to the Angel Islington in London. The journey will take over a month; an unbroken 200 miles, into the English Channel and the very heart of London via Olympic Territory. In preparation, he will produce a map with the great writer on place Iain Sinclair, which plots the proposed route that the Swan might take through a series of walks. This map, designed by Julien Lesage, will be presented today in its first London showing.”

BL Landscaping programme outline 10.5.10


Publisher Pighog announces collaboration with Oona Grimes

Pighog: Postcards from the Seventh Floor

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 at 21:10

“We’re thrilled to announce that Iain Sinclair and artist Oona Grimes are collaborating on a new illustrated poetry book coming out this autumn. Sinclair, the author of vivid and seminal novels such as White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Radon Daughters, and the reknowned literary geography London Orbital, is creating new suite of poems based in Hastings. Grimes is reknowned for her richly allusive and playful printmaking, as featured in her recent Conversations with Angels exhibition, and we at Pighog are understandably giddy with anticipation. With an anthology of winning entries to our children’s Short Story Competition also scheduled for release in autumn, and more live events to be confirmed, there is plenty to look forward to, so watch this space!”

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The Guardian on Alan Moore (24/07/2010)

“Unearthing the truth about Watchmen genius Alan Moore”

“He may no longer be writing an opera with Gorillaz, but for his next trick, the magician, psychedelic adventurer and occasional comics creator has a different musical project up his sleeve”

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Rachel Cooke interviews Iain Sinclair for the Observer (08/02/2009)

This article appeared on p10 of the Observer Review section of the Observer onSunday 8 February 2009. It was published on guardian.co.uk at 00.01 GMT on Sunday 8 February 2009. It was last modified at 09.46 GMT on Tuesday 3 March 2009.

The interview: Iain Sinclair

The brilliant chronicler of uncharted, often unloved, parts of Britain has stayed close to home for his latest epic – a bittersweet love letter to the London borough of Hackney. He takes Rachel Cooke for a stroll round his patch – no ordinary walk, as the visionary author beautifully evokes the area’s rich history while reflecting on his own memories of the urban landscape

Link to interview