An Evening with ... Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling

Date: Mon, 01/03/2010 - 6:30pm

Venue: Swedenborg House, 20 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Admission: £5 (£3 concession)

Iain Sinclair will give a reading with poet, sculptor and performance artist Brian Catling, as part of Swedenborg House: Fourteen Interventions, our bicentenary exhibition. The evening will be a chance to view the show, and in particular items of interest from the Society's archives, specifically selected by Iain Sinclair. The Swedenborg Society is pleased to welcome back Iain who spoke on ‘Blake's London' at Swedenborg Hall, as part of our conference on Blake in Contexts in 2006.

Iain Sinclair

is a poet, novelist and filmmaker. He has published eleven volumes of poetry, including Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge. His five novels are WhiteChappell, Scarlet Tracings, Dining on Stones, and Downriver which won him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award. His documentary prose includes Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital and Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report.

Brian Catling

is a poet, sculptor, performance artist and Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. He has published eight volumes of poetry, including The Stumbling Block, The Blindings, and Bobby Awl. Brian has performed and had installations commissioned all around the world, his latest solo show was at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.

Advance booking is highly recommended

Contact (020) 7405 7986.