In Edge of the Orison, visionary Iain Sinclair follows in the footsteps of poet John Clare. In 1841, poet John Clare left an asylum in Epping Forest and walked 80 miles home to Northborough, searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce, a woman who had died three years earlier. In 2000, Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare's walk, seeking to understand his connection with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions. Accompanied on his journey by his wife Anna (who has a connection to Clare), artist Brian Catling, and magician Alan Moore, as well as a host of literary phantoms, Sinclair's quest for Clare becomes an exploration of madness, reason, and the nature of the poet's muse.

Robert Macfarlane, in the Times Literary Supplement, states: 'Outstanding... entertaining, unsettling, and melancholic. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Majestic and urgent.' The Independent highlights: 'A sensitive, beautifully rendered portrait... a feast, a riddle, a slowly unfolding query... a love letter to British Romanticism.' J. G. Ballard, in Observer, comments: 'Iain Sinclair walks every inch of his magnificent novels and psychogeographies, creating vast verbal pathways like an architect designing a city on an empty plain.'

Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award), Landor’s Tower, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, Lights Out for the Territory, Lud Heat, Rodinsky’s Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein), Radon Daughters, London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire, and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.

Pages: 400, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm