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Publisher Pighog announces collaboration with Oona Grimes

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:23:21 +0000

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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Restless cities

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:15:39 +0000

From the back cover:

“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

‘Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire’ shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:09:45 +0000

‘Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire’ has been shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, which will be announced at a dinner on Monday, May 24.
My Athens piece, ‘The Calossus of Maroussi’, has been published in the current issue of the London Review of Books (27 May). I’ll let you have 2 extracts that were cut from the essay, for the website.
Iain

Also see this article (thanks to Lenore).

The Lowlife by Alexander Baron

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:23:23 +0000

Just received… The Lowlife by Alexander Baron (Black Spring Press) – for which I have written an introduction.

Iain

The swan pedalo

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:07:56 +0000

I’ve been out, doing a series of walks with Andrew Kötting, as preparation for a proposed voyage, on swan pedalo, from Hastings to the Olympic site, by sea, river, canal. A book of some kind, and an exhibition, are being assembled.

Iain