Advantages: Breathtakingly virtuosic and knowledgeable writing Disadvantages: Can become rather obscure at times
Towards the end of London Orbital, Iain Sinclair concludes “The M25 goes nowhere; it’s self-referential, postmodern, ironic. Modestly corrupt, it won’t make sense until it’s been abandoned, grown over.”
And there was I thinking it was just a road. ...
Advantages: Educational for walkers and anyone slightly creative Disadvantages: Lacks a gravitas to being a house-hold name
London Orbital A walk around the M25 Iain Sinclair Granta Books A slow hand clap accompanied by an amazed repetitious nod towards the man who walked around the M25, Mr. Iain Sinclair; and he wrote a book about it called 'London Orbital'. Tw ...
**Who is Edward Monkton?**
Edward Monkton is a series of products developed by Giles Andreae. Edward Monkton products are hard to describe. They are poems and pictures which have been printed in books, posters, cups, greeting cards and much more. They ar ...
Advantages: Touching without being depressing Disadvantages: None
Another pocket-sized treasure from the Scottish Poetry Library, 'Lament' accompanies 'Handfast' as a book of Scottish poetry carefully selected by Lizzie MacGregor and with a certain theme, this time 'funerals and consolation'.
In common with 'Handfast ...
