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"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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Iain Sinclair is a professional theatre director and dramaturge based in Sydney, Australia. He is a graduate of both The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and King's College London. His works includes Our Town and Blood Wedding for the Sydney Theatre Company, as well as The Seed for Company B. Belvoir.
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- Canonical title
- Black Apples of Gower
- Original publication date
- 2016
- People/Characters
- Iain Sinclair
- Important places
- Wales, UK; Gower, Swansea, Wales, UK
- Original language
- English
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 914.2982048612 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Europe England and Wales Wales, Cambrian Mountains Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan
- LCC
- ND497 .S535 .A4 — Fine Arts Painting Painting History
- BISAC
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