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The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review

Iain reviews “The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead” by Carl Watkins on the Guardian:

It is the season to be melancholy, to contemplate, in groaning surfeit, the armature of bone beneath our cope of stretched flesh. The publication of The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead, an expedition by Carl Watkins across the ill-defined borders [...]

The Guardian: Iain Sinclair on Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

In this article appeared on the Guardian on Friday 30/09/2011,  ”Iain Sinclair unravels the mystery encrypted in Bruegel the Elder’s monumental panel painting”

Article on the Guardian on the Festival of Britain

Published on Friday 22 April 2011 10.40 BST

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/22/iain-sinclair-festival-of-britain

The Festival of Britain is remembered as an uplifting moment for a nation recovering from war. Iain Sinclair, who visited it aged eight, reflects on the celebrations to mark its 60th anniversary, in our age of corporate sponsorship and Olympics mania.

 

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Scamp by Roland Camberton

“I’ve written an introduction for ‘Scamp’ by Roland Camberton (aka Henry Cohen), which has just been reissued by New London Editions (PO Box 8786, Nottingham NG1 9AW). Along with ‘Rain on the Pavements’.”

Buy Scamp online here

Articles about the book:

Islington Tribune

Roland Camberton on Wikipedia

Man in a MacIntosh, Iain Sinclair on [...]

Thames walk on the Guardian

22/09/2010

I was out yesterday afternoon, walking between the O2 Arena (Millennium Dome) and the Thames Barrier, with Lucy Greenwall, for the Guardian’s audio department. I think the piece will become a pod cast. A whispering, voice-in-the-ear nuisance to inform or irritate your own tramp along this route. Iain

A Thames walk I did as [...]