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008 150927s2015 enka b 000 0 eng
019 $a923511528
020 $a9781908213280 (hbk.)
020 $a1908213280 (hbk.)
024 $a40025371101
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050 14 $aDA740.G6$bS4 2015
082 04 $a914.2982048612$223
100 1 $aSinclair, Iain,$d1943-
245 10 $aBlack apples of Gower :$bstone-footing in memory fields /$cIain Sinclair.
260 $aToller Fratrum, Dorset :$bLittle Toller books,$cc2015.
300 $a178 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c19 cm.
490 1 $aA Little Toller monograph.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181-183]).
520 $a"Iain Sinclair walks back along the blue-grey roads and the cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower Peninsula, a place first explored in his youth. Provoked by the strange, enigmatic series of paintings, Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower), made by the artist Ceri Richards in the 1950s, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar, 'murky elsewheres' of his life in Hackney, carrying an envelope of black-and-white photographs and old postcards, along with fragments of memory that neither confirm nor deny whether he belongs here, amongst the wave-cut limestone, the car parks and the Gower bungalows. But digging and sifting, he soon recognises that a series of walks over the same ground - Port Eynon Point to Worm's Head - have become significant waymarks in his life, and his recollections of a meeting with the poet of place, Vernon Watkins, is an opening into the legends of the rocks and the mythology behind the Black Apples of Ceri Richards and the poems of Dylan Thomas. Under cliff, along limestone shores, Sinclair comes to realise that the defining quest must be to the Paviland Cave, where in 1823 the Reverend William Buckland found human bones put to ground 36,000 years ago. All the threads of this story lead underground, through this potent and still mysterious cavern, to the site of the first recorded ritual burial in these islands."--Amazon website.
600 10 $aSinclair, Iain,$d1943-$xHomes and haunts$zWales$zGower.
600 17 $aSinclair, Iain,$d1943-$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00228474
650 0 $aPainters$zGreat Britain$y20th century.
650 0 $aPoets, English$y20th century.
651 0 $aGower (Wales)$xDescription and travel.
650 7 $aTravel.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01155558
651 7 $aWales$zGower.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01240392
830 0 $aLittle Toller monograph.
852 00 $bglx$hDA740.G6$iS4 2015