Rodinsky’s Place
Patrick Wright, 29 October 1987
White Chappell: Scarlet Tracings
by Iain Sinclair.
Goldmark, 210 pp., £12.50, October 1987,1 870507 00 2 Show More
by Iain Sinclair.
Goldmark, 210 pp., £12.50, October 1987,
“... creed of a dismal little sect. But despite his growing reputation as the abracadabra man behind Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor, Sinclair doesn’t write as a believer either here or in Lud Heat (1975). Placing his own necromancy closer to the tradition of Rimbaud than to that of Madame Blavatsky, he uses myth to cut through contemporary closures: to drag ... ”