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A link to the article on Swandown I wrote for The Bohemian, by Liz Maynard

Liz Maynard wrote an article about Swandown for The Bohemian, she kindly shared it.

Swandown: An Odyssey

Two swan related voyages launched in Hastings during August and September: one, an ambitious, artistic adventure; the other, an absurdist gesture, equally as ambitious, but ultimately doomed. As Iain Sinclair, writer, poet and psychogeographer, and Andrew Kötting, artist and [...]

Olympics ruined London wasteland – writer Iain Sinclair on BBC, Daily politics, 22/02/2012

“The writer Iain Sinclair who has spent decades documenting London tells the Daily Politics why he thinks the Olympic development in east London has ruined one of the capital’s most magical wildernesses.”

“Mr Sinclair debated his ideas on Wednesday’s Daily Politics (*) with Conservative MP Nick Herbert and Labour MP Caroline Flint. The programme can [...]

Patience (After Sebald)

“Diehard Sebaldians may seek to retrace the footsteps that formed the basis of WG Sebald’s meditative masterpiece The Rings of Saturn. Or they may choose to watch Grant Gee’s film tribute instead. Patience (After Sebald) takes as its fulcrum the German expatriate’s category-defying memoir-cum-history, travelogue-cum-novel – which was published in 1995 and is considered by [...]

STONE TAPE SHUFFLE (updated 16/12/2011)

About the LP: I have now discovered that the pressing with be 400 copies, 26 of which in a special edition will come with additional handwritten material and other extras. It won’t be available until March. (I think the number of copies echoes the original Albion Village Press edition of ‘Lud Heat’.)

 

The Test [...]

German translation of “The Shipwreck” poem.

Jürgen Ghebrezgiabiher has translated a second Iain Sinclair poem, The Shipwreck, in German.

Click here for the first translation.

“I made a pastiche of Iain’s introductory words insinuating “the literary journalistic wave that swept my almost 10-year commitment to Iain’s cause away. I am not naming names! So I think that should be fine. “ JG.

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