London Month of the Dead

DEAD HAMLETS Psychogeography, Iain Sinclair + Lud Heat with Iain Sinclair and Tom Bolton At Swedenborg House On Wednesday 22nd October 2025 from 7:00 pm Join us at Swedenborg House for a landmark evening with celebrated writers Iain Sinclair and Tom Bolton, marking the 50th anniversary and new publication of Sinclair’s cult classic 'Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets' — the work that helped define and ignite the practice of psychogeography in modern British writing. First published in 1975, Lud Heat blends poetry, topography, and arcane speculation into a visionary mapping of East London’s lost energies, connecting Hawksmoor churches, buried rivers, and ancient alignments. To celebrate this reissue, Sinclair will be joined by author and cultural historian Tom Bolton, whose own book Vanished City charts the disappearance of entire London districts and communities under centuries of development and erasure. Their conversation will explore the idea of “dead hamlets”—those ghostly, half-erased places absorbed by the sprawl of modern London. From maritime outposts and plague pits to forgotten boroughs and psychic fault lines, the event will trace the disrupted memory and mythic undercurrents of the city’s hidden topography. Expect an evening of deep history, speculative cartography, literary reflection, and lively conversation between two of London’s most insightful chroniclers of place and loss. Tickets £12.50. Please click here to buy. IAIN SINCLAIR Iain Sinclair is a legendary British writer, poet, and filmmaker known for his genre-defying works that map the psychic and historical layers of London. His books include Downriver, London Orbital, Ghost Milk, and The Last London. With Lud Heat, he pioneered an approach that blends personal journey, historical excavation, and mythic resonance—placing him at the heart of Britain’s psychogeographic revival. TOM BOLTON Tom Bolton is a writer and researcher whose books uncover the hidden geographies and histories of London and its margins. He is the author of Vanished City, London’s Lost Rivers Volumes 1 and 2, and Low Country, exploring the Dutch coast. His work offers rich, accessible investigations into the ways cities remember—and forget—themselves.

DEAD HAMLETS
Psychogeography, Iain Sinclair + Lud Heat
with Iain Sinclair and Tom Bolton At Swedenborg House
On Wednesday 22nd October 2025 from 7:00 pm

Join us at Swedenborg House for a landmark evening with celebrated writers Iain Sinclair and Tom Bolton, marking the 50th anniversary and new publication of Sinclair’s cult classic 'Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets' — the work that helped define and ignite the practice of psychogeography in modern British writing.

First published in 1975, Lud Heat blends poetry, topography, and arcane speculation into a visionary mapping of East London’s lost energies, connecting Hawksmoor churches, buried rivers, and ancient alignments. To celebrate this reissue, Sinclair will be joined by author and cultural historian Tom Bolton, whose own book Vanished City charts the disappearance of entire London districts and communities under centuries of development and erasure.

Their conversation will explore the idea of “dead hamlets”—those ghostly, half-erased places absorbed by the sprawl of modern London. From maritime outposts and plague pits to forgotten boroughs and psychic fault lines, the event will trace the disrupted memory and mythic undercurrents of the city’s hidden topography.

Expect an evening of deep history, speculative cartography, literary reflection, and lively conversation between two of London’s most insightful chroniclers of place and loss.

Tickets £12.50. Please click here to buy.

IAIN SINCLAIR
Iain Sinclair is a legendary British writer, poet, and filmmaker known for his genre-defying works that map the psychic and historical layers of London. His books include Downriver, London Orbital, Ghost Milk, and The Last London. With Lud Heat, he pioneered an approach that blends personal journey, historical excavation, and mythic resonance—placing him at the heart of Britain’s psychogeographic revival.

TOM BOLTON
Tom Bolton is a writer and researcher whose books uncover the hidden geographies and histories of London and its margins. He is the author of Vanished City, London’s Lost Rivers Volumes 1 and 2, and Low Country, exploring the Dutch coast. His work offers rich, accessible investigations into the ways cities remember—and forget—themselves.