Wordplay - Iain Sinclair + Guests

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Wordplay

Iain Sinclair + Guests
What happens when the games are gone? Iain Sinclair reports on the trouble to come…
Bestselling author of Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire – dubbed ‘a classic’ by J.G. Ballard and ‘an explosion of literary fireworks’ by Peter Ackroyd – Iain Sinclair is back with Ghost Milk, a powerful new book about the giant myth that is London's 2012 Olympics.

Iain will be reading from Ghost Milk, discussing matters raised in this and other books and answering audience questions. There will also be music provided by artists picked by Iain himself.

Beginning in his east London home many years before, it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far in search of the forgotten and erased.

He travels from the mouth of the Thames to Oxford, crosses Morecambe Bay in the footsteps of drowned Chinese cockle pickers, and visits an Athenian, post-Olympics landscape of vast and deserted stadia. It is a story of incident and accident, of the curious meeting the bizarre.

‘No one has ever written quite like Iain Sinclair. He will, without doubt, prove the indelible diarist of our age’ (Observer).