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 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

“As part of the John Foxx Analogue event on 5 June, writer Mark Fisher (The Wire) will chair a panel featuring ‘London Orbital’ author Iain Sinclair and Jim Jupp and Julian House from the Ghost Box label. The discussion will explore the intersections between the work of Foxx, Sinclair and Ghost Box. How are places saturated with the traces of past events? How do technologies affect memory, and what role does fiction play in allowing us to map the haunted spaces of the city?

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Tickets: £2

More on the show:

“Meanwhile after John Foxx’s own performance, the lights and set will stay in place and Mark Jones – who recently interviewed John for his BBC 6 Music show – will round off the event with a ”Back To The Phuture” DJ set, celebrating the best in electronic music – past, present and future -

http://backtothephuture.net/news/2010/03/backtothephuture-short-circuit-2010.php”

Iain