The story goes that in 1841, the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest and, heading towards his home in Northborough, covered eighty miles over three-and-a-half days. On foot and alone, he was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce a woman already three years dead 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. Keats, De Quincey, Blake, Pepys, Shelley, Joyce, Beckett, artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore along with Sinclair's wife Anna, who shares a connection with Clare are his fellow travellers on a journey that becomes an exercise in memory and erasure encompassing parents, grandparents and other ancestral ghosts. 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.
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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 and Dining on Stones. He lives in Hackney, East London.
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It is a sleeping country, unpeopled and overlit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
asylum years, peasant poet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
High Beach, Great North Road, Epping Forest, Geoffrey Hadman, Alan Moore, Mary Joyce, Whittlesey Mere, Robert Hadman, William Hadman, Fleet Street, William Rose, Chris Petit, Don Juan, Lord Byron, James Joyce, Jonathan Bate, Lucia Joyce, John Taylor, Matthew Allen, Florence Hadman, Frederick Martin, Bevill's Learn, Milton Hall, Blue Bell, Casa Magni New!
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It is a sleeping country, unpeopled and overlit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
asylum years, peasant poet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
High Beach, Great North Road, Epping Forest, Geoffrey Hadman, Alan Moore, Mary Joyce, Whittlesey Mere, Robert Hadman, William Hadman, Fleet Street, William Rose, Chris Petit, Don Juan, Lord Byron, James Joyce, Jonathan Bate, Lucia Joyce, John Taylor, Matthew Allen, Florence Hadman, Frederick Martin, Bevill's Learn, Milton Hall, Blue Bell, Casa Magni New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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