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- THE VERBALS - IAIN SINCLAIR IN CONVERSATION WITH KEVIN JACKSON JULY 2003
ISBN 0-9530947-9-0
A5 152 PAGES
60 SIGNED LIMITED BIRTHDAY EDITION : £60
26 A-Z SIGNED LIMITED EDITION: £70 ( BOTH WITH SLIPCASE AND EXTRA HOLOGRAPHIC MATERIAL )
TRADE EDITION: £12 / 20EUROS
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Comic, searching and wildly eclectic, The Verbals provides a perfect companion to Sinclair’s work for his many fans, and an ideal starting point for the newcomer.
IAIN SINCLAIR is now firmly established as one of the most dazzlingly gifted and important of contemporary British writers. His work encompasses poetry, Lud Heat, fiction, Radon Daughters, Landor’s Tower, and documentary prose, including his best-selling Lights Out For the Territory and his most recent M25 epic London Orbital.
In The Verbals, a long conversation mingling confession, memories and self-criticism, Sinclair lays bare the origins of these works, wittily, candidly, and at unprecedented length, from the myths of Freemasonry surrounding his ancestry to his encounters with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, from his adventures in the film world to his bohemian life in Dublin, from casual labouring in the East End to esoteric studies of earth mysteries and psychotherapy. En-route we encounter a colourful supporting cast of terrorist bombers, washed up rock stars, coke-crazed bookdealers, gurus, visionaries and fools.
KEVIN JACKSON, in civilian life a broadcaster and film maker, is also a survivor of Iain Sinclair’s M25 odyssey, and is cruelly caricatured in London Orbital. His previous publications include The Language of Cinema, Invisible Forms, and for Worple Press, A Ruskin Alphabet.
“I suspect Iain Sinclair is a genius… he can outgun virtually any writer in England”
John Walsh, The Independent
“Anyone who cares about English prose cares about Iain Sinclair, a demented magus of
the sentence”
James Wood, The Guardian
