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SAGESONG: A text for Gateshead performance (with pictures)

‘A few days in Newcastle, talking with fellow performers at the ‘English Journey’ event, attending a screening (and later an Indian meal) with Kenneth Anger, and walking to Morden Tower and along the Tyne. The Tower, bellying out over a narrow alley, set against the old wall, is unrecorded by heritage plaques. A Chinese arch [...]

A few days in Newcastle, by Iain Sinclair (plus photos, as soon as the postman delivers them)

‘A few days in Newcastle, talking with fellow performers at the ‘English Journey’ event, attending a screening (and later an Indian meal) with Kenneth Anger, and walking to Morden Tower and along the Tyne. The Tower, bellying out over a narrow alley, set against the old wall, is unrecorded by heritage plaques. A Chinese arch [...]

article: Iain Sinclair on Jack Kerouac footsteps in London on Beat Scene

“Well aware, on the morning of September 1, 2009, that I was a ghost among ghosts, I set out to follow in Kerouac’s London footprints. The problem being that I knew too much. Almost every yard of this route was part of the narrative of forty years in one city. Freshly arrived from Dublin in [...]