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In a series of commentaries, short essays, documentary material and images drawn from the Swedenborg Society Archive, Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling reconstruct and reflect on the extraordinary events surrounding an exhibition and performance at Swedenborg House on 17 February 2010. Several Clouds Colliding will be launched at Swedenborg House on 19 July 2012, accompanied by a new performance by Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling. Several Clouds Colliding is co-published by the Swedenborg Archive and Book Works as part of Co-series No.2. It is edited by Stephen McNeilly and printed in an edition of 1600, in hardcover, with blind blocking on front cover, and numerous b/w and colour images throughout. The artwork and design are by Stephen McNeilly and James Brook, with additional photographs by Anonymous Bosch.

"London Orbital" sets out to map the London that is deeply unfashionable and strangely unknown, even to those who live there. With an engaging wit familiar to his readers, Sinclair focuses on the vast stretch of urban settlement bounded by the M25, the road that encircles London. Illustrations.

Catalogue of exhibition held at Goldmark Gallery, July 1991. Includes work by Steve Dilworth.

Poetry. Iain Sinclair was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. After training at the London School of Film Technique, he published his poetry in his own Albion Village Press. His early verse shows the influence of the Beats and the Black Mountain School of poets. THE FIREWALL is a return to his small press roots, and includes a selection of "hidden" works from 1979-2006. "Not even The Thousand Handed Giant could easily turn over all the poems and open half of the portals of intelligence in this book. THE FIREWALL is not a protective or defensive wall, it is one of the cliffs of Blake's and Coleridge's Albion sweeping against the walls of Everywhere. On this side of the waters, it spreads itself over the peaks of San Francisco with Brythonic and luminous intelligence. This is the landscape of another realm. We are walking over a raw and smoking surface filled with surprises. All around are the possibilities of lost tribes quietly bustling in the shadows. THE FIREWALL edges towards being a world rather than paper and pages. This is a rare jewel"--Michael McClure.

'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... stories weave and unweave over the book's course, patterning thought into a complex built environment, at once disorientating and illuminating.' Robert MacfarlaneWe shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us but they can also heal us. We project our hopes and fears onto buildings, while they absorb our histories.In Living With Buildings, Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of expeditions - through London, Marseille, Mexico and the Outer Hebrides. He explores the relationship between sickness and structure, and between art, architecture, social planning and health, taking plenty of detours along the way. Walking is Sinclair's defensive magic against illness and, as he moves, he observes his surroundings: stacked tower blocks and behemoth estates; halogen-lit glasshouse offices and humming hospitals; the blackened hull of a Spitalfields church and the floating mass of Le Corbusier's radiant city.And he peels back layers of life. A father and his daughter, who has a rare syndrome, visit the estate where they once lived. Developers clink champagne glasses as residents are 'decanted' from their homes. A box sculpted from whalebone, thought to contain healing properties, is returned to its origins with unexpected consequences. Part investigation, part travelogue, Living With Buildings brings the spaces we inhabit to life as never before.

Iain Sinclair's classic early text, Lud Heat, explores mysterious cartographic connections between the six Hawksmoor churches in London. In a unique fusion of prose and poetry, Sinclair invokes the mythic realm of King Lud, who according to legend was one of the founders of London, as well as the notion of psychic 'heat' as an enigmatic energy contained in many of its places. The book's many different voices, including the incantatory whispers of Blake and Pound, combine in an amalgamated shamanic sense that somehow works to transcend time. The transmogrifying intonations and rhythms slowly incorporate new signs, symbols and sigils into the poem that further work on the senses. This was the work that set the 'psychogeographical' tone for much of Sinclair's mature work, as well as inspiring novels like Hawksmoor and Gloriana from his peers Peter Ackroyd and Michael Moorcock, and Alan Moore's From Hell.

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Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when the author sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. This book deals with the author's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city.

Ariadne's thread : a response / by Iain Sinclair -- Prologue -- A man called Max -- A labyrinth of paths -- One leaves behind one's portrait. In 1981 a young woman who had recently moved to Norwich was invited out by a group of friends. Amongst them was a man that she had never met before. His name was Max, although the world would later come to know him as W.G. Sebald. Out of that initial encounter, a friendship was to grow: the more Philippa got to know the young German university lecturer, the fonder of him and the closer to him she became. Their love of European literature and poetry, of people's personal histories and a shared sense of living in a state of suspended exile offered them plenty of scope for discussion and exploration. Personally and professionally, this was a difficult period in both their lives; yet against this background, the friendship blossomed. And then Philippa was offered new work involving another move and relocation. Physical distance was put between them, meaning they saw less of each other, the relationship eventually fading. Some years later, not long after they had resumed contact, Max was killed in a car crash. He had suffered a heart attack at the wheel. Making extensive use of diaries she kept at the time, Philippa Comber has written a book on several levels: a memoir about a period in her own fascinating life, including details of family members and friends that take us back through history - we get to meet people from all walks of life, some, in their own way, extraordinary. At the same time, it is a deeply honest and revealing account of a relationship with a difficult man to know - by turns melancholic, outrageously funny, pessimistic, hopeful, proud, yet plagued by doubt. Ariadne's Thread describes a person at a turning point in his life, as he begins to contemplate writing in a different vein, for himself rather than for academic purposes. We see, illuminated in a personal and frank manner, the i.