Black Apples of Gower by Iain Sinclair

Black Apples of Gower by Iain Sinclair

IAIN SINCLAIR walks back along the blue-grey roads and the cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower Peninsula, a place first explored in his youth. Provoked by the strange, enigmatic series of paintings, Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower), made by the artist Ceri Richards in the 1950s, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar, 'murky elsewheres' of his life in Hackney, carrying an envelope of black-and-white photographs and old postcards, along with fragments of memory that neither confirm nor deny whether he belongs here, amongst the wave-cut limestone, the car parks and the Gower bungalows.But digging and sifting, he soon recognises that a series of walks over the same ground - Port Eynon Point to Worm's Head - have become significant waymarks in his life, and his recollections of a meeting with the poet of place, Vernon Watkins, is an opening into the legends of the rocks and the mythology behind the Black Apples of Ceri Richards and the poems of Dylan Thomas.Under cliff, along limestone shores, Sinclair comes to realise that the defining quest must be to the Paviland Cave, where in 1823 the Reverend William Buckland found human bones put to ground 36,000 years ago. All the threads of this story lead underground, through this potent and still mysterious cavern, to the site of the first recorded ritual burial in these islands.

Sinclair, Iain: - Iain Sinclair has lived in (and written about) Hackney, East London, since 1969. His novels include Downriver (Winner of the James Tait Black Prize & the Encore Prize for the Year's Best Second Novel), Radon Daughters, Landor's Tower and, most recently, Dining on Stones (which was shortlisted for the Ondaatje prize). Non-fiction books, exploring the myth and matter of London, include Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital and Edge of the Orison. Recently he has published Ghostmilk (2011) and American Smoke (2013) and London Overground (2015.)

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ISBN 13	9781908213280
ISBN 10	1908213280
Title	Black Apples of Gower
Author	Iain Sinclair
Series	Little Toller Monographs
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little Toller Books
Year published	2015-07-01
Number of pages	176
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