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	Granta: Iain Sinclair
		Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights out for the Territory'; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); and Radon Daughters, all available from Granta Books.
		This is Sinclair at his funniest, most sympathetic and engaged.
		Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Thatcher's reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what's left of the river life that was.
	www.granta.com /authors/30 (371 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Landor's Tower, 05-10-01
		Iain Sinclair is most known for his fractious psycho-geographical explorations of London and, in particular, the urban mythology of the East End.
		Iain Sinclair is, in many ways, the true heir of William Burroughs, a predecessor to whom he regularly pays his dues.
		Sinclair is, as the jacket proclaims, an authentic visionary, shell-shocked by the surreal reality of the age but still able to translate the vision into frothing, hysterical but fundamentally lyrical language.
	www.flakmag.com /books/landor.html (616 words)

	Review \| Crash
		Sinclair is unabashedly critical of the film and even of Ballard's endorsement of it.
		As Sinclair so aptly states: "But [Cronenberg], by carrying his faithful adaptation so far from its source, from the assassinations and excesses of television and mass media, depoliticizes Ballard's frenzied satire.
		Iain Sinclair's essay of the same name, however, is a delightfully intelligent romp through the media travails of Ballard's subversive and dangerous text.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/crash.html (734 words)

	Iain Sinclair at the Complete Review
		So purely is he a stylist that he returns prose to a state of decadence: that is to say, one can find Sinclair's mind limited, his leftish politics babyish, his taste for pulp writing tiresome, his occultism untrue, and forgive all of this because the prose, gorgeously amoral, is stronger than the world it inhabits.
		Sinclair employs extravagant metaphors and conceits, vertigo-inducing catalogues and countless half-quotations.
		"Iain Sinclair's fiction belongs to a branch of literature that might be described as visionary.
	www.complete-review.com /authors/sinclairi.htm (1107 words)

	Iain Sinclair: Revolutionary Novelist or Revolting Nihilist
		Sinclair's refusal to be bored, to subscribe to any values that do not involve the whole of desire, found sustenance in the left Freudianism of the counter culture: Wilhelm Reich, William Burroughs, Norman O. Brown, the Situationist International.
		Sinclair's unjudgmental record of his experience - a mix of nature, cityscape, work and leisure, news from a friend on the hippie trail - has the tremour of something lived; it makes one's own memories of seemingly unimportant and wasted moments glow again in the imagination.
		As Iain Sinclair is embraced by the literary establishment he once railed against as drop-out and poet, the sources of his creativity are threatened.
	www.militantesthetix.co.uk /critlit/SINCLAIR.htm (5453 words)

	M/C Journal: "Iain Sinclair's Excremental Narratives"
		For Sinclair, Beckton Alp functions as a totem signifying the pervasive regulatory influence of Panopticism in contemporary urban culture.
		Sinclair’s writing continually forces our attentions back to the purlieus of urban culture, to everything that the centrifugal forces of Panopticism have driven to the periphery: social inequality, marginal spatial practice, refuse, shit.
		Sinclair’s textual obscenery is perceived as ‘bad’, as excremental because it denies mainstream literary audiences the satisfaction of uncomplicated, uncritical consumption.
	journal.media-culture.org.au /0502/03-seale.php (1848 words)

	On the road \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Near the outset of Iain Sinclair's new novel, Dining on Stones, a visionary poet is teased by a young woman for embarking on a seemingly miserable walk along the cursed A13 out of London to research a book.
		Sinclair is tall, barrel-chested and fit-looking, with a military bearing that is thoroughly undone when he opens his mouth and speaks like a kindly country vicar.
		Sinclair's imagination was fired particularly by Hawksmoor's churches, their appropriation of mystical Egyptian and other ancient civilisations and the significance of their alignments.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1201348,00.html (3828 words)

	village voice > books > Iain Sinclair's London fog by Simon Reynolds
		Sinclair imagines the City of London as a termite colony seething with bowler-hatted drones serving a monetarist queen (Maggie Thatcher).
		Throughout, Sinclair maintains a delicate poise between his prose-poet's onrush of sense impressions and his acerbic political consciousness; he is sharply attuned to the centuries-thick silt deposits left by the flows of population, money, and power.
		Alternately telegraphic and rippling, Sinclair's prose frequently grinds to a near-halt in snarl-ups of elliptical opacity.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9933/reynolds.php (419 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: London Orbital: A Walk Around the M25: Books: Iain Sinclair,Dave McKean,Renchi Bicknell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sinclair drops dark hints that the land the housing is built on may be contaminated with chemicals or even radioactivity from the factory.
		Sinclair doesn't actually seem to have done any proper research into this subject, which is disappointing.
		As Iain Sinclair notes, "[i]t started with the Dome" - and, as is to be expected, it is at the Millennium Dome that 'London Orbital' also ends.
	www.amazon.co.uk /London-Orbital-Walk-Around-M25/dp/1862075476 (1723 words)

	Downriver - Iain Sinclair
		"(Sinclair's) snarling compendium of obscure lives and dubious livelihoods, rotting neighbourhoods and neighbours, hypocrisy, dreams, endurance, is recommended to complacent politicians and all whose London is blocked by gentility.
		Sinclair is the most London-centered of modern English novelists, and he knows the city inside out.
		Sinclair's docklands London is also in the heart of darkness, an often bleak vision of a disenfranchised society that is both literally and figuratively on the periphery and now finds itself and its lifestyle and heritage under attack from capitalist-imperialist forces.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/sinclairi/downriver.htm (789 words)

	Iain Sinclair's Landor's Tower
		Then Sinclair's texts - White Chappell, Downriver, Radon Daughters - read like a dream, often a ripe nightmare of precognitions, the howl of ancestral voices as the shamanic scribe slums and bums his way around the psychogeography of England, the crusted Matter of Britain.
		Sinclair's mythopoiea enfolds the Scroll of Hay and turns it inside out, skewing the picturesque shots of tourist brochures into dark tableaux of grotesquerie.
		Taking his cue from Ballard, Sinclair recognises that the creatures of our media landscape have turned the domains of their names into global properties, generic brands.
	www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/lit/SinclairLandor.htm (1209 words)

	village voice > books > London Orbital by Iain Sinclair by Jessica Winter
		Sinclair's latest shoe-shredding journey is perhaps his most heroic-quixotic yet.
		(Sinclair is the author of a British Film Institute monograph on David Cronenberg's adaptation of Crash.) He drops in on Count Dracula's estate, Winston Churchill's painting studio, even the newly dedicated Mick Jagger Centre, a music and arts venue.
		Sinclair hiked counterclockwise, he writes, as "a way of winding the clock back." "Our whole trip became an exercise in memory," he says.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0251/winter2.php (965 words)

	New Statesman: The road as metaphor of itself: Iain Sinclair may be a fellow-traveller of cranks and eccentrics, but he ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		New Statesman: The road as metaphor of itself: Iain Sinclair may be a fellow-traveller of cranks and eccentrics, but he is also one of our most original and talented writers.
		So Sinclair writes of "the Turner Axis", or the "Canaletto Axis", and marks the queer fact that "the guns of the battleship [HMS Belfast] were trained on the only (at that time) service station on the orbital motorway".
		Sinclair also devotes generous chunks of the book to those he regards as pivotal influences, the seers of London's periphery: J G Ballard at Shepperton, balanced by Samuel Palmer in the Valley of the Darent.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4607_131/ai_93208493 (1447 words)

	Amazon.ca: Downriver: Books: Iain Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In his U.S. debut Sinclair, a British poet, filmmaker, rare book dealer and jack-of-all-trades, puts his varied background to work in a dextrous, multifaceted novel of the London docklands.
		I liked the notion of what Sinclair was trying to do in tying the Thames to Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and mixing it all up with a critique of Thatcherite policies and the the capitalist assault on the underclass.
		There are flashes here and there of something, and clearly Sinclair has masses of knowledge and skill, but it's hard to find any cohesion to it all.
	www.amazon.ca /Downriver-Iain-Sinclair/dp/0141014857 (709 words)

	Iain Sinclair
		Sinclair, however, is distinctive among contemporary novelists in that he is also a poet and film-maker.
		Of course Sinclair is himself a researcher-poet; in the course of my account of his relation to neo-modernist poetry in the first part of this introductory chapter, I show that he displays a typically neo-modernist impulse to draw on a range of specialist knowledges.
		Yet it is precisely the inaccessibility of research-based neo-modernist writing such as Sinclair’s which draws our attention to the inadequacy of the notion of linguistic accessibility, and the mystificatory falsity of the concept of a common readership, in a society in which linguistic competence is unequally acquired on the basis of personal wealth.
	www.saltpublishing.com /books/sscl/_baks/1876857811.htm.0081.78df.bak (857 words)

	BookkooB: Liquid City - Iain Sinclair
		Sinclair adds occasional pieces in a lighter, more journalistic prose than readers of his wonderful, overwrought novels might expect, discussing Atkins, or one of his photographs, and their mutual project of attempting to pin down the story that is London.
		Sinclair and Atkins know this (Sinclair praises his friend for creating flux whereas his writing tries to "mould wriggling chaos") but the project proves worthwhile as it has produced words and some remarkable pictures that only such a troubled engagement could engender.
		What Iain Sinclair manages to capture in text Marc Atkins manages to equal in photography, even though the two seem to battle to discover more about places, moments, stories of London through prose and through the Lens.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/1861890370.htm (506 words)

	Powell's Books - Landor's Tower by Iain Sinclair
		This is Iain Sinclair's first novel in eight years, and his first book to be set outside London.
		"Iain Sinclair is a curator of crazed intentions.
		Iain Sinclair is the son of a doctor.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-1862070180-5 (652 words)

	City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair
		The essays herein cover the key genres and periods of Sinclair’s output, discussing his poetry, prose and filmmaking, and are developed from the proceedings of the first academic conference on Sinclair, which was held at the University of Greenwich in 2004.
		Iain Sinclair, however, remains pre-eminent, by virtue, not only of the amplitude of his knowledge of the city, but of the intensity and complexity of his thought about it.
		Like the Sinclair phenomenon itself, this valuable collection of essays is multifaceted, illuminating its subject from a variety of different angles, whilst very well aware that it is part of a `work in progress’.
	www.c-s-p.org /Flyers/City-Visions--The-Work-of-Iain-Sinclair.htm (603 words)

	Alibris: Iain Sinclair
		In this unusual novel, Sinclair draws a powerful portrait of London's criminal character by mingling secrets of the modern city with menacing personas from its Victorian age.
		The eccentric, manic, often moving collaborative explorations of London's hidden streets, cemeteries, parks and canals by photographer Marc Atkins and writer Iain Sinclair were first recorded in Sinclair's highly acclaimed 1997 book "Lights Out for the Territory," praised in the "Guardian" as "one of the most remarkable books ever written on London...
		A great fusion of prose and verse, Lud Heat is an exploration of a contemporary city and the historical and mythical patterns that it hides.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Iain_Sinclair (562 words)

	Edge of the Orison - Iain Sinclair - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Iain Sinclair's hands, the bare facts of John Clare's story turn both strange and elliptical.
		Armed with curiosity and a sense that his work has from the first been haunted by Clare, Sinclair - together with fellow diviners and other stragglers of the road - sets out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness and to explore his own obsession with the poet.
		The mad, wonderful, hallucinatory and physical prose of Clare finds new expression in Sinclair's deep-digging fiction of biography where memoir, history, travel, mystery and dreamstory combine in a magnificent eulogy to madness and to sanity - along the borders of which may lie the poet's muse.
	www.greatthamesread.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0241142180,00.html (820 words)

	Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » When In Doubt, Quote Ballard: An Interview with Iain Sinclair
		Iain Sinclair has been acclaimed as one of Britain’s most visionary writers and as an incomparable prose stylist.
		I met Sinclair in the Barbican, the City of London Corporation’s modernist complex of high-class municipal housing and cultural facilities, which hosted the London Orbital theatrical event in October 2002.
		Nice to see Iain acknowledging the role of High Wycombe in the psychogeography of London’s fringelands (mind you Gordon S Maxwell was doing that in 1924).
	www.ballardian.com /iain-sinclair-when-in-doubt-quote-ballard (7894 words)

	Iain
		He was the subject of a play, The Curse Of Iain Banks, written by Maxton Walker, at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999, appearing as a voice on tape.
		The death of Iain Hamilton last year deprived the contemporary British music scene of a Iain Ellis Hamilton was born in Glasgow on June 6th, 1922.
		Iain Mattaj is Scientific Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL].
	e377.com /?q=iain (743 words)

	William Gibson
		That’s a phrase that pops up in the work of Iain Sinclair, my favorite writer of the past decade or so.
		I was in John Clute’s living room, one morning, toward the start of a book tour, looking out at Camden High Street, when Clute pointed to a passing figure on the pavement opposite, and said that that was Iain Sinclair, the poet and bookseller.
		There’ s a new Iain Sinclair novel, but I’m going to hold off for the pleasure of reading it in England, in April, on the UK tour (no dates yet).
	www.williamgibsonbooks.com /archive/2003_01_15_archive.asp (455 words)

	Amazon.com: London Orbital: Books: Iain Sinclair
		Sinclair (Lights Out for the Territory) writes in a hyper, staccato style that in a single passage can run the gamut from Beat poetry ("Narrative fractured.
		Sinclair is an artist with no patience for cheesy development, shopping malls or the very highway on which he walks, slicing past beautiful countryside and abandoned factories alike.
		Where Sinclair's Lights Out for the Territory explored inner London, London Orbital looks at the more remote locations once used for, among other things, asylums, hospitals, homes, and vacations from the industrialized city.
	www.amazon.com /London-Orbital-Iain-Sinclair/dp/0141014741 (566 words)

	Fortean Times - Iain Sinclair interview
		Iain Sinclair's dense and feverish explorations of London have made him one of Britain's most respected authors.
		From the word storms of White Chapell, Scarlet Tracings, which interweaves dark tales of the contemporary book trade with channelled glimpses of the Ripper murders, to the all-encompassing, microscopic sprawl of the essays in Lights Out For the Territory, Sinclair's vision is unique.
		For his latest book, Landor's Tower, Sinclair has gone West, to Wales, incorporating Alfred Watkins, Arthur Machen and the 25 unsolved defence industry 'suicides' of the early 1980s.
	www.forteantimes.com /articles/147_iainsinclair.shtml (6973 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Iain Sinclair
		Among contemporary British writers, no one has made the city the central subject of their work to quite such an extent as Iain Sinclair.
		It was while working through the Seventies as, variously, a cigar-packer, brewery worker and parks gardener, that he first began publishing his poetry, as well as that of Catling and Chris Torrance, in his own Albion Village Press imprint.
		Sinclair's defining relation to the work of William Blake may also be traced to the all-pervasive enthusiasm for his work among British poets of the sixties, although Sinclair uncovers a rather darker, more urban Blake than that evoked by such writers as Michael Horowitz.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4084 (372 words)

	3quarksdaily: Dining on Iain Sinclair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Why then, if this Guardian profile/interview rings true, don't more Americans know who Iain Sinclair is? His new novel, Dining on Stones, isn't yet available in the States, although some of his previous titles can be found here and there.
		One of the reasons for Sinclair's American obscurity is his London mania: shorthand references to minor celebrities and thumbnail sketches of East End gangland history which probably require (and deserve) a whole apparatus of annotations.
		Here's a Fortean Times interview in which Sinclair expounds on his theories of "psychogeography," plus his entry in the Literary Encyclopedia, and a list of his titles from Granta Books.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2005/06/dining_on_iain_.html (250 words)

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