{"id":10840,"date":"2013-09-10T05:01:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=10840"},"modified":"2013-09-10T05:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:01:39","slug":"sinclairs-suicide-bridge-reissued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/sinclairs-suicide-bridge-reissued\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair’s “Suicide Bridge” Reissued"},"content":{"rendered":"

News just in that SKYLIGHT Press<\/a> has reissued on the best or at least one of my own favorite late seventies UK books:<\/p>\n

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SUICIDE BRIDGE<\/strong>
\nIain Sinclair<\/p>\n

A brand new edition comprising the most complete version ofSuicide Bridge yet published. It includes three extra \u201cbooks\u201d of material, which formed part of the original work but was not included in previous editions. It also includes photographs and artwork from the 1979 Albion Village Press edition, along with additional photos by the author.<\/p>\n

This classic text has in recent times been fused to its contemporaneous volume, Lud Heat, but very much deserves to stand on its own. Suicide Bridge was originally published by Albion Village Press in 1979 with the sub-title A Book of the Furies, A Mythology of the South & East \u2013 Autumn 1973 to Spring 1978. As elsewhere, Sinclair saunters into the shadowy city underworld with his ever-watchful eye and roving syntax, this time probing the mythic figures from William Blake\u2019s Jerusalem and the mythical king Bladud. Previously text-bound entities such as Hand, Hyle and Kotope are made flesh and and given to foggy breath in the contemporary landscape. Addressed to \u201cthe enemy\u201d the reader is precariously perched on the teetering bridge while the author kicks at the mythic spindles that hold it up. Sinclair\u2019s alternating, inter-penetrating prose and poetry become the uneven struts and pylons of a new concrete\/abstract literary edifice.<\/p>\n

\u2018One of the cliffs of Blake\u2019s and Coleridge\u2019s Albion sweeping against the walls of Everywhere\u2026
\nThis is the landscape of another realm. We are walking over a raw and smoking surface filled with surprises. All around are the possibilities of lost tribes quietly bustling in the shadows\u2026 This is a rare jewel.\u2019
\n\u2014 Michael McClure<\/p>\n

\u2018Vitality is one of the many qualities radiating from Iain Sinclair\u2019s superb collection, Suicide Bridge\u2026 Sinclair\u2019s is a cerebral flame ignited by political anger\u2026 He is utterly traditional, his roots extending back through Ginsberg and Dorn, and beyond that, to Blake. His method is to appoint a cast of archetypes, Skofeld, Bladud, Coban, Atum, Kotope, and have them prance, like Sweeney, Ignu or Rintrah, through the wreckage of capitalism, manipulated by powerful rhythmic lines\u2026\u2019
\n\u2014 Jeff Nuttall, The Guardian<\/p>\n

\u2018The book is an excitement to read. Always strong, always compelling, like a good thriller. How he can actually handle all the dark stuff, the mantic utterances, within his own being, I can\u2019t say. He must have a strong psychic interface to deal with the Intruder who gives him these tales, who compels the knowledge, traces the dark patterns in the grass\u2026 Read it, for a totally other experience of hidden Albion.\u2019
\n\u2014 Chris Torrance<\/p>\n

204 pages
\nISBN: 978-1-908011-61-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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