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Edge of the Orison Paperback - 2006

by Iain Sinclair

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In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare.

In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead ...

In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions. Accompanied on this journey by his wife Anna (who shares a connection with Clare) the artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore - as well as a host of literary ghosts both visionary and romantic - Sinclair's quest for Clare becomes an investigation into madness sanity and the nature of the poet's muse.

'Brilliant . . . amusing alarming and poignant. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Magnificent and urgent' Robert Macfarlane Times Literary Supplement

'A sensitive beautifully rendered portrait . . . a feast a riddle a slowly unravelling conundrum . . . a love-letter to British Romanticism' Independent

'Sinclair walks every inch of his wonderful novels and psychogeographies pacing out huge word-courses like an architect laying out a city on an empty plain' J. G. Ballard Observer

Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital Dining on Stones Hackney that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.

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  • Title Edge of the Orison
  • Author Iain Sinclair
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group
  • Publication date 2006-10
  • ISBN 9780141012759 / 0141012757
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.06 x 0.89 in (19.84 x 12.85 x 2.26 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.7

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Iain Sinclair is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry non-fiction, including Lud Heat; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Downriver; Radon Daughters; Lights Out for the Territory; Rodinsky's Room, with Rachel Lichtenstein; Landor's Tower; London Orbital; Dining On Stones; Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk; American Smoke and London Overground. Downriver won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award. He lives in Hackney, east London.

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