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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Wed, 22nd Oct 2025 @ 19:00 - 21:00
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19:00 - 21:00
Join us
at Swedenborg House for a landmark evening with
celebrated writers Iain Sinclair and Tom Bolton,
marking the 50th anniversary and new publication of
Sinclair’s cult classic 'Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets'—the
work that helped define and ignite the practice
of psychogeography in modern British
writing.
First published in
1975, Lud Heat blends poetry, topography, and arcane
speculation into a visionary mapping of East London’s lost
energies, connecting Hawksmoor churches, buried rivers, and ancient
alignments. To celebrate this reissue, Sinclair will be joined by
author and cultural historian Tom Bolton, whose own
book Vanished City charts the disappearance of entire
London districts and communities under centuries of development and
erasure.
Their conversation will
explore the idea of “dead hamlets”—those ghostly, half-erased
places absorbed by the sprawl of modern London. From maritime
outposts and plague pits to forgotten boroughs and psychic fault
lines, the event will trace the disrupted memory and mythic
undercurrents of the city’s hidden
topography.
Expect an evening of
deep history, speculative cartography, literary reflection, and
lively conversation between two of London’s most insightful
chroniclers of place and loss.
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Iain Sinclair is a
legendary British writer, poet, and filmmaker known for his
genre-defying works that map the psychic and historical layers of
London. His books include Downriver, London
Orbital, Ghost Milk, and The Last London. With Lud
Heat, he pioneered an approach that blends personal journey,
historical excavation, and mythic resonance—placing him at the
heart of Britain’s psychogeographic revival.
Tom Bolton is a
writer and researcher whose books uncover the hidden geographies
and histories of London and its margins. He is the author
of Vanished City, London’s Lost Rivers Volumes 1 and
2, and Low Country, exploring the Dutch coast. His work offers
rich, accessible investigations into the ways cities remember—and
forget—themselves.
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Swedenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way,, Bloomsbury Way,, London, WC1A 2TH
Nearest Station
Holborn (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
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