When I first discovered Iain Sinclair he was obscure enough for me to feel I had him largely to myself. That notion encouraged was by the fact that his early novels – my first was White Chappell Scarlet Tracings – were published in Uppingham by Mike Goldmark.
But that was 40 years ago. Now psychogeography is no longer a novel idea and its big beasts are getting distinctly long in the tooth. So this conversation between Sinclair and Alan Moore, who has fished in the same waters, has a valedictory touch.
I used to count Moore, along with Jeremy Seabrook and Ray Gosling, as part of a post-war Northampton working-class renaissance. Now I've discovered Henry Bird, I may have to move back the date of its commencement.
Thanks to John Rogers for posting this – you can find the earlier video he refers to on this blog too. John has a Patreon account to support his videos and blogs at The Lost Byway.
Same here with regard to Iain Sinclair. I even have some of his catalogues from when he was a secondhand book dealer. I've gone off him a bit in recent years though: some of the writers who have to an extent followed in his footsteps, like Philip Marsden, Tom Chivers, Jeff Young and Alexandra Harris, to name but a few, are at least as interesting and their writing eschews Sinclair's often irritating mannerisms.
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