Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a Welsh writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.
Books in order of publication:
Back Garden Poems, poetry, 1970
The Kodak Mantra Diaries: Allen Ginsberg in London, documentary, 1971
Muscat’s Wurm, poetry, 1972
The Birth Rug, poetry, 1973
Lud Heat, prose, and poetry, 1975
Suicide Bridge, prose, and poetry, 1979
Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal, poetry, 1983
Autistic poses, poetry, 1985
Flesh Eggs and Scalp Metal: Selected Poems 1970–1987, poetry, Paladin, 1987
Significant wreckage, poetry, 1988
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, fiction, 1987 (originally a limited edition from Goldmark but reprinted by Paladin)
Downriver, novel, 1991
Jack Elam’s Other Eye, poetry, 1991
The Shamanism of Intent, Goldmark, 1991
Radon Daughters, novel, 1994
Conductors of Chaos: a Poetry Anthology, editor 1996
Penguin Modern Poets Volume Ten: Douglas Oliver, Denise Riley, Iain Sinclair, poetry, 1996
The Ebbing of the Kraft, poetry, 1997
Lights out for the territory: 9 Excursions in the secret history of London. Granta Books. 1997.
Slow Chocolate Autopsy, fiction, 1997
Crash, essay, 1999
Liquid City, non-fiction, 1999 (with Marc Atkins)
Rodinsky’s Room, non-fiction, 1999 (with Rachel Lichtenstein)
Sorry Meniscus, essay, Profile Books, 1999
Landor’s Tower, novel, 2001
London Orbital, non-fiction, 2002 (paperback edition 2003)
White Goods, poems, essays, fictions, 2002
Saddling The Rabbit, poetry, 2002 Etruscan Books
The Verbals, in conversation with Kevin Jackson, 2003 Worple Press
Dining on Stones, novel, 2004
Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare’s ‘Journey Out Of Essex’, non-fiction, 2005
The Firewall (selected poems 1979 – 2006), poetry, Etruscan Books, paperback, 2006
Buried At Sea, Worple Press, paperback, 2006
London: City of Disappearances, editor, various essays about London psychogeography etc., 2006
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report, non-fiction, 2009
Ghost Milk, non-fiction (memoir), 2011
Blake’s London: The Topographical Sublime, The Swedenborg Society, 2012
Kitkitdizze… Seeing Gary Snyder, Beat Scene, January 2013
Swimming To Heaven: The Lost Rivers of London, The Swedenborg Society, 2013
Austerlitz and After: Tracking Seybold, chapter deleted from ‘American Smoke’, Test Centre, 2013
Red Eye, poetry, Test Centre, 2013
Objects of Obscure Desire, Goldmark, 2013 (illustrated by Sarah Simblet)
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light, 2014
Cowboy / Deleted File, chapter deleted from ‘American Smoke’, Test Centre, 2014
London Overground: A Day’s Walk around the Ginger Line, 2015
Black Apples of Gower, Little Toller Books, 2015
Westering, Test Centre, 2015
Liquid City, Expanded edition, non-fiction, Reaktion Books, 2016 (with Marc Atkins)
Seeschlange, Equipage, 2016
My Favourite London Devils: A Gazetteer of Encounters with Local Scribes, Elective Shamen & Unsponsored Keepers of the Sacred Flame, Tangerine Press, 2016
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City, Oneworld Publications, 2017
Living with Buildings: Walking with Ghosts – On Health and Architecture, Wellcome, 2018
Dark Before Dark, Tangerine Press, 2019 (photography by Anonymous Bosch)
Fever Hammer Yellow – Earthbound Poetry Series Vol.1 No.7, Earthbound Press, 2020
Our Late Familiars – Goldmark, 2020 (photography by Ian Wilkinson)
The Gold Machine – In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers – Oneworld Publications, 2021
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