{"id":170,"date":"2008-07-03T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/beta\/?p=170"},"modified":"2013-11-16T01:47:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T01:47:04","slug":"03-jul-09-visions-of-the-city-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/07\/03-jul-09-visions-of-the-city-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Visions of the City II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 3 July 2008, 7pm<br \/>\nBishopsgate Institute<br \/>\n\u00a37\/5; 020 7392 9220<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-293\" title=\"sinclair5-764922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Sinclair5-764922.jpg\" alt=\"sinclair5-764922\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visions of the City\u00a0II<br \/>\nIAIN SINCLAIR + Chris McCabe + Hannah Silva + Tom Chivers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iain Sinclair is the de facto chronicler of modern London. Poet, novelist, essayist, anthologist, filmmaker and former book dealer, Sinclair has been described as &#8216;incomparable &#8230; the De Quincy of English letters&#8217; by Peter Ackroyd. He is the author of numerous books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, the latest of which is <em>London: City of Disappearances<\/em> (Hamish Hamilton).<\/p>\n<p>Chris McCabe&#8217;s poetry is raw, energetic and experimental, covering topics as diverse as Iraq, fatherhood and Pete Doherty. His second collection of poetry is published this year with the provisional title <em>Zeppelins<\/em> and follows his acclaimed debut <em>The Hutton Inquiry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Silva is a young, fast-talking poet, performer and choreographer from Devon. Her <em>City Fragments<\/em> captures the speed, energy and contradictions of 21st century urban life.<\/p>\n<p>Plus new work from Tom Chivers, Bishopsgate Institute&#8217;s Poet in Residence.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G0vR1Dpz-MM 300]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 3 July 2008, 7pm Bishopsgate Institute \u00a37\/5; 020 7392 9220 Visions of the City\u00a0II IAIN SINCLAIR + Chris McCabe + Hannah Silva + Tom Chivers Iain Sinclair is the de facto chronicler of modern London. Poet, novelist, essayist, anthologist, filmmaker and former book dealer, Sinclair has been described as &#8216;incomparable &#8230; the De Quincy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}