We are happy to announce that RED EYE by Iain Sinclair is now available for pre-order.
A lost foolscap typescript until its recent unearthing, the long poem RED EYE was written in 1973 for publication by Sinclair’s Albion Village Press the following year. Set aside to accommodate other books from the press, and pushed aside by darker forces, RED EYE is now revealed to be pivotal between Sinclair’s early, locally based texts and the larger, more mythic structures of Lud Heat. Indeed RED EYE has developed its own mythology among Sinclair’s followers, and its publication (in the same year that 1979’s Suicide Bridge is reissued) is an exciting act of archaeology.
Comprised of stylistically and thematically different sections, in its documentation of daily domestic life RED EYE functions in parallel to Sinclair’s diary filming of late-1960s Hackney life, whilst its literal and poetical topographic journeys outward mirror the experimentation of the early film Maggot Street. The text of RED EYE receives its emotional equivalent in 16 full colour stills from these films, not to illustrate but to present a subconsciously connected film script, a series of alternate ‘books’.
RED EYE is published in an edition of 500 copies. Of these 50 are numbered and signed, and 26 are specially hardbound, lettered and signed, and contain additional holograph material and a rare DVD of early 8mm footage. There are also 7 copies hors commerce.
80pp + 8pp colour images, designed by Traven T. Croves, printed by Lecturis in Holland
paperback: 297 x 183mm | hardback: 303 x 188mm
£15 / £30 / £125 + p&p
Pre-orders will be shipped by the publication date on 25 October.
To order your copy, click here.
RED EYE launch
RED EYE will be launched at a special event on 25 October 2013 at The Test Centre, in Stoke Newington. The event will be the first reunion in a decade of writers published by Sinclair’s Albion Village Press, with Chris Torrance and Brian Catling reading alongside Sinclair.
