In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks within the steps of poet John Clare

In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping woodland and walked 80 miles to his domestic in Northborough. He used to be looking for his misplaced love, Mary Joyce - a girl 3 years useless ...

In 2000 Iain Sinclair got down to recreate Clare's stroll clear of insanity. He desired to comprehend his bond with the poet and get away the gravity of his London obsessions. followed in this trip by way of his spouse Anna (who stocks a reference to Clare), the artist Brian Catling and magus Alan Moore - in addition to a number of literary ghosts, either visionary and romantic - Sinclair's quest for Clare turns into an research into insanity, sanity and the character of the poet's muse.

'Brilliant . . . a laugh, alarming and poignant. An elegy for an already misplaced English panorama. significant and urgent'Robert Macfarlane, Times Literary Supplement

'A sensitive,beautifully rendered portrait . . . a ceremonial dinner, a riddle, a slowly unravelling conundrum . . . a love-letter to British Romanticism'Independent

'Sinclair walks each inch of his impressive novels and psychogeographies, pacing out large word-courses like an architect laying out a urban on an empty plain'J. G. Ballard, Observer

Iain Sinclair is the writer 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's additionally the editor of London: urban of Disappearances.