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hbk: ?
pbk: Paladin, UK, 1989
ISBN 0-586-08728-1 (UK pbk)
poetry, slipstream, experimental, gothic
"Iain Sinclair's poetic roots lie in the lyricism of the American Beats and the Black Mountain group. His acknowledged influences include Ezra Pound, WC Williams, William Blake and 'New Journalism' (blending reportage with novelistic pace and tension).
"But the open-field poetics of Charles Olson seem to be the most powerful and enduring influence on Sinclair.
"The Olson-esque elements of Sinclair's work, free prosodic forms and visionary themes, are combined with an eye for detail as precise as that of any 'dirty realist'.
"Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal provides an excellent introduction to Sinclair: these esoteric, allusive, visionary, fragmented and witty poems allow the reader to experience both Sinclair's prophetic visions and his perceptive inspections of the sleazy and mundane." --Andrew Hedgecock (in Mark/Space , 1996).
"Iain Sinclair has redefined the possibilities of political or 'public' poetry at a time when it has fallen into disrepute... works that create new forms of narrative poetry." --Peter Ackroyd (in The Times ).
"Dark, dense and learned ... Sinclair means his dark stuff, and makes it moving." --Karl Miller (in The London Review of Books ).
"His roots extend back through Ginsberg and Dorn to Eliot and, beyond that, to Blake... powerful, rhythmic lines... masterful." --Jeff Nuttall (in The Guardian )
Giggling at the Autopsy: socio-political satire in the novels of Iain Sinclair by Andrew Hedgecock
Magpie Bookshop
(located at Time Out Net Books - not a direct
link - You'll need to register with Time Out to see this - but it's free... Click on the Net Books icon... Click on Write On... Click on Write On Archive )
(in Spitalfields, London E1... has collector's copies of books by Iain Sinclair for sale and useful information about the local area: the scene of Jack the Ripper's final killing and setting for Sinclair's Lud Heat and White Chappell Scarlet Tracings )
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