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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This conference aims to address some of these questions and to provide a focus and forum for those interested in what writing and drama have to say in the new millennium.”

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Monday 14 – Tuesday 15 June 2010
Sheffield Hallam University

“This interdisciplinary conference engages with the writings of Iain Sinclair. Following his interest in London writers, it proposes a vision of London that concentrates on the marginal, the ‘lost’, and the ‘underground’. It takes an interdisciplinary form spanning the disciplines of history, English, film and architecture.

The London it hopes to explore is an unstable and shifting one, which changes its meanings over time. The chronology is a long one, inviting comparisons across the geographical spaces of London and across disciplinary boundaries.

Drawing on Iain Sinclair‘s preoccupations with space, topography, the cinema of the capital and the lost history of the city, it aims to overturn accepted notions of London through an emphasis on the excluded.

The conference will be held in conjunction with the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, and will open a week-long series of short films about London. These will be a series of films introduced by academic staff from Sheffield Hallam University at the Showroom Cinema.

Iain Sinclair will be present and will deliver a keynote lecture on outsider culture in London and popular film making in the 1960s and 70s.”

“The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a city-symphony to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis. With explorations of phenomena including nightwalking, urbicide, property, commuting and recycling, this wide-ranging new book identifies and traces the patterns that have defined everyday life in the modern city and its effect on us as individuals. Bringing together some of the most significant cultural writers of our time, from Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit and Geoff Dyer to Esther Leslie, Marshall Berman, and Patrick Keiller, Restless Cities is an illuminating, revelatory journey to the heart of our metropolitan world.”

Contributors: Matthew Beaumont, Marshall Berman, Kaisa Boddy, Iain Borden, Rachel Bowlby, Gregory Dart, Geoff Dyer, Patrick Keiller, Esther Leslie, Michael Newton, Chris Petit, Michael Sayeau, Michael Sheringham, Iain Sinclair, David Trotter and Mark W. Turner.

Publisher: Verso

Thursday 10 June, 7pm

“To mark the publication of Restless Cities, editorsMatthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart are joined by contributors Marshall Berman, Geoff Dyer and Iain Sinclair to discuss the metropolis as a site of endless making and unmaking of identities. How can explorations of phenomena including nightwalking, urbicide, property, commuting and recycling help us to trace the patterns that have defined everyday life in the modern city and its effect on us as individuals?”