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Black Apples of Gower (Little Toller Monographs)
Iain Sinclair
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Description for Black Apples of Gower (Little Toller Monographs)
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Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author and psycho-geographer, walks back along the blue-grey roads and cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula. Provoked by the strange and enigmatic series of paintings Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower) made by the artist Ceri Richards in the 1950s, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar "murky elsewheres" of his life in Hackney, London, carrying an envelope of photographs and old postcards, along with fragments of memory. He soon realises that a series of walks over the same ground - Port Enyon Point to Worm's Head have become significant waymarks ... Read more
Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author and psycho-geographer, walks back along the blue-grey roads and cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula. Provoked by the strange and enigmatic series of paintings Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower) made by the artist Ceri Richards in the 1950s, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar "murky elsewheres" of his life in Hackney, London, carrying an envelope of photographs and old postcards, along with fragments of memory. He soon realises that a series of walks over the same ground - Port Enyon Point to Worm's Head have become significant waymarks ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little Toller Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Little Toller Monographs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908213457
SKU
V9781908213457
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair is a poet, film-maker, essayist and author of many acclaimed books, including Downriver, Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital, Edge of the Orison and London Overground. He is the editor of the anthology London, City of Disappearances. He was born in south Wales and now lives in Hackney, London.
Reviews for Black Apples of Gower (Little Toller Monographs)
"Luxuriant prose, has a dark ascorbic bite, lingering on the tongue just as surely as it does in the mind." Jon Gower, Caught by the River. "Black Apples of Gower fuses anecdote, memoir, biography, history, archaeology and geography in an essay on mortality and memory that sweeps like Rhossili Bay. But is is also a visit to this island of ... Read more