{"product_id":"9780141012759-edge-of-the-orison","title":"Edge of the Orison","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'. 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 this book, the author walks in the steps of poet John Clare. It is an investigation into madness, sanity and the nature of the poet's muse. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEdge of the Orison\u003c\/i\u003e the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant . amusing, alarming and poignant. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Magnificent and urgent'  Robert Macfarlane, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A sensitive,beautifully rendered portrait . a feast, a riddle, a slowly unravelling conundrum . a love-letter to British Romanticism'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIain Sinclair is the author of \u003ci\u003eDownriver\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); \u003ci\u003eLandor's Tower\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhite Chappell, Scarlet Tracings\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLights Out for the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLud Heat\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRodinsky's Room\u003c\/i\u003e (with Rachel Lichtenstein); \u003ci\u003eRadon Daughters;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLondon Orbital\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDining on Stones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGhost Milk\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eLondon: City of Disappearances\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40859980169313,"sku":"9780141012759","price":12.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/886c501fbc839345afac3a9fddf21521.png?v=1686220239","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141012759-edge-of-the-orison","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}