Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, recently within the influences of psychogeography.
For the Scottish rugby union player, see Iain Sinclair (rugby union). For people with a similar name, see Ian Sinclair (disambiguation).
Iain Sinclair
Biography[edit]
Education[edit]
Sinclair was born in Cardiff in 1943. From 1956 to 1961, he was educated at Cheltenham College,[1] a boarding school for boys, followed by Trinity College, Dublin (where he edited Icarus).[2] He attended the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), and the London School of Film Technique (now the London Film School).
Back Garden Poems, poetry, 1970
The Kodak Mantra Diaries: in London, documentary, 1971
Allen Ginsberg
Muscat's Wurm, poetry, 1972
The Birth Rug, poetry, 1973
Lud Heat, prose and poetry, 1975
, prose and poetry, 1979
Suicide Bridge
Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal, poetry, 1983
Autistic poses, poetry, 1985
Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal: Selected Poems 1970–1987, poetry, Paladin, 1987
Significant wreckage, poetry, 1988
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, fiction, 1987 (originally a limited edition from Goldmark but reprinted by Paladin)
, novel, 1991
Downriver
Jack Elam's Other Eye, poetry, 1991
The Shamanism of Intent, Goldmark, 1991
Radon Daughters, novel, 1994
Conductors of Chaos: a Poetry Anthology, editor 1996
Penguin Modern Poets Volume Ten: Douglas Oliver, Denise Riley, Iain Sinclair, poetry, 1996
The Ebbing of the Kraft, poetry, 1997
. Granta Books. 1997. ISBN 1-86207-009-1., non-fiction
Lights out for the territory: 9 Excursions in the secret history of London
, fiction, 1997
Slow Chocolate Autopsy
Crash, essay, 1999
Liquid City, non-fiction, 1999 (with )
Marc Atkins
Sorry Meniscus, essay, Profile Books, 1999
Landor's Tower, novel, 2001
London Orbital, non-fiction, 2002
White Goods, poems, essays, fictions, 2002
Saddling The Rabbit, poetry, 2002 Etruscan Books
The Verbals - in conversation with Kevin Jackson, Worple Press, 2003
Dining on Stones, novel, 2004
Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out Of Essex', non-fiction, 2005
The Firewall (selected poems 1979 – 2006), poetry, Etruscan Books, paperback, 2006
Buried At Sea, Worple Press, paperback, 2006
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report, non-fiction, 2009
“Sickening”, in Restless Cities, Edited by M. Beaumont and G. Dart, London: Verso, 2010. 257–276.
Ghost Milk, non-fiction (memoir), 2011
Blake's London: The Topographical Sublime, The Swedenborg Society, 2012
Kitkitdizze... Seeing Gary Snyder, Beat Scene, January 2013
Swimming To Heaven: The Lost Rivers of London, The Swedenborg Society, 2013
Austerlitz and After: Tracking Sebald, chapter deleted from 'American Smoke', Test Centre, 2013
Red Eye, poetry, Test Centre, 2013
Objects of Obscure Desire, Goldmark, 2013 (illustrated by Sarah Simblet)
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light, 2014
Cowboy / Deleted File, chapter deleted from 'American Smoke', Test Centre, 2014
London Overground: A Day's Walk around the Ginger Line, 2015
Black Apples of Gower, Little Toller Books, 2015
Westering, Test Centre, 2015
Liquid City, Expanded edition, non-fiction, Reaktion Books, 2016 (with )
Marc Atkins
Seeschlange, Equipage, 2016
My Favourite London Devils: A Gazetteer of Encounters with Local Scribes, Elective Shamen & Unsponsored Keepers of the Sacred Flame, Tangerine Press, 2016
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City, Oneworld Publications, 2017
Living with Buildings: Walking with Ghosts – On Health and Architecture, Wellcome, 2018
Dark Before Dark, Tangerine Press, 2019 (photography by )
Anonymous Bosch
Fever Hammer Yellow – Earthbound Poetry Series Vol.1 No.7, Earthbound Press, 2020
Our Late Familiars – Goldmark, 2020 (photography by )
Ian Wilkinson
The Gold Machine - In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers - Oneworld Publications, 2021
The Gold Machine Beats: A Jungle Death Photo Album - , 2021
Beat Scene
. Tangerine Press. 2022. ISBN 978-1-910691-81-6. (with artwork by Dave McKean, postscript by Chris McCabe)
Fifty Catacomb Saints
1998 - Downriver, (UK, King Mob Records, CD)
2004 - Dead Lead Office - Poems 1970-2004, (UK, Optic Nerve, CD)
2012 - Stone Tape Shuffle, (UK, Test Centre, LP)
2016 - Edith Field Recordings with , Anonymous Bosch, Andrew Kötting, Jem Finer, Claudia Barton, (UK, BadBloodandSibyl, CD)
David Aylward
2016 - London Overground with , (UK, Fin-A-Dee Six Records, 12" Single)
Standard Planets
2021 - Dark Before Dark with , (USA, 577 Records, CD)
The London Experimental Ensemble
Iain Sinclair Official Unofficial WebSite (Sanctioned by Author)
(archived 2009-11-24) at Untitled Books
"A Small Catalogue of the Uncurated" by Sinclair
(2006), a critical analysis by John Barker in Mute (MetaMute.org)