Posts Tagged ‘Iain Sinclair’
Abney Park Trust launches year-long festival to celebrate ‘historic radicals’
The Radical Writers festival will feature appearances from acclaimed writers, politicians and academics
Read More‘I’ve seen a hell a lot of change’: Legendary Hackney film director launches 50-year retrospective in Shoreditch
John Smith, who Jarvis Cocker calls his ‘favourite British filmmaker’, will show 50 of his works over 10 weeks
Read More‘My stories begin in Hackney’: Author Iain Sinclair to release film about retracing his ancestor’s journey to Peru
The writer says the adventure documented in The Gold Machine is like ‘any of those funny, strange expeditions I’ve done for my own books’
Read MoreHaggerston Baths: taking a dip down memory lane
Since the millennium this Wren-revival-style building has lain empty and neglected. With three schemes for the Baths set for public consultation, the Hackney Citizen delves into the history and political wranglings that underpin its plight
Read MoreMy Favourite London Devils, Iain Sinclair, book review: ‘mapping space through memories’
Hackney author’s new book is an attempt to piece together a personal anthology of the literature of the capital
Read More‘Run to ruin’ – the sorry tale of Dalston Lane’s Georgian terraced houses
As diggers move in to demolish 200-year-old buildings on Dalston Lane, we look back at their recent chequered history and the campaign to save them
Read MoreIain Sinclair walks 'ginger line' in film adaptation of London Overground
Rio Cinema to premiere London Overground, in which Hackney author Iain Sinclair treks across the ‘spin-drier of capitalism’
Read MoreIain Sinclair walks ‘ginger line’ in film adaptation of London Overground
Rio Cinema to premiere London Overground, in which Hackney author Iain Sinclair treks across the ‘spin-drier of capitalism’
Read More‘Community bookshop’ in Dalston hopes to boost local publishers
Burley Fisher Books is run by the people behind Camden Lock Books in Old Street Station
Read MoreBook review: London Overground – Iain Sinclair turns cultural archaeologist
Iain Sinclair’s latest book sees Hackney’s favourite psychogeographer walk the length of the London Overground to get acquainted with a version of the city about which he knew nothing
Read MoreIain Sinclair helps retrace poet's journey for new documentary
19th-century Romantic writer John Clare once walked from an Epping Forest asylum to Northamptonshire without food or money. Andrew Kötting and author Iain Sinclair have made a documentary about it, starring Toby Jones and a straw bear
Read MoreLondon Short Film Festival gets underway this weekend
Billed as a snapshot of 21st century Britain, this year’s festival received a record number of submissions
Read MoreIain Sinclair unpacks life in 70 films for new book – review
70×70 – Unlicensed Preaching: A Life Unpacked In 70 Films is a ‘cultural autobiography’ full of insight and ideas about cinema
Read MoreIain Sinclair launches 70×70 birthday book
Iain Sinclair discusses the changing face of cinema at book launch event
Read MoreIain Sinclair looks back at 70×70 birthday film project
The year-long project to commemorate the writer’s seventieth birthday in which he chose 70 films to be screened across the capital ends this month
Read MoreAmerican Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light – review
Iain Sinclair leaves Hackney for the US on a Beat poetry pilgrimage in his latest book
Read MoreLeader – Pantomimes, Canalival and eerie Christmas calm…
A look back at Hackney in 2013 – a year of subcommittee deja vu
Read MoreIain Sinclair to discuss American Smoke at Cafe Oto
Author will appear at ‘The Banned and The Damned’ event alongside Revd William Taylor
Read MoreIain Sinclair to launch new book American Smoke at ‘F’ in Stoke Newington
Event comes after author’s reading of his ‘lost’ book-length poem Red Eye
Read MoreStephen Gill’s new collection draws on obsession with Hackney
Not in Service brings together past studies of the borough for the first time
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