Scottish Poetry Library Podcast

Iain Sinclair is one of the UK's greatest living writers. Famed for his novels, such as Downriver, and documentary prose, most famously perhaps London Orbital, Sinclair began his career self-publishing his own poetry on his Albion Village Press in the 1970s. This year sees the publication of three books, 2 poetry collections and a longer book on his relationship with the Beats. Colin Waters travelled to Sinclair's home in Hackney in May 2012, where he asked Sinclair about his Scottish roots, John Clare and his lost 1970s collection Red Eye, which is being published this year by Test Centre. Picture of Iain Sinclair by Luca Del Baldo.