BOWIELAND
Monoray (Verlag)
9781800961562 (ISBN)
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'Fabulous... What a ghost story! A ripping read.' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of London Orbital
'Vividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place and circumstance.' STUART MACONIE
'Bowieland will make you want to take your very own pilgrimage, accompanied by the great man's songs.' ALEXANDER LARMAN, THE OBSERVER
'A sublime, time-travelling quest.' TIFFANY MURRAY, author of My Family and Other Rock Stars
'A joyful and fascinating journey which anchors Bowie's genius in the pavements.' KEVIN LOADER, producer of The Buddha of Suburbia
BOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE...
Following open heart surgery, Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - walk if you want to stay alive. So, when his hero died in 2016, he knew what he had to do. The figure who was to so many a companion and guide had left no single focal point for homage. To reconnect with him, Carpenter would take a walk into the past, to the places where David Jones became something more: David Bowie.
Leaving behind well-known shrines to Bowie, he journeyed through South London edgelands to obscurer haunts. Carpenter's quest, a series of happy accidents and chance meetings, took him to Bickley as well as Berlin and Brixton, to Eel Pie Island as well as Heddon Street and Beckenham.
Carpenter's perambulations echo Bowie's own wandering creative spirit. They reveal multiple influences, both conscious and unconscious, in Bowie's creative development. Ultimately, Carpenter reaches a fresh understanding of where Bowie sits in the culture, not as an outlier, but as part of a tradition, informed by those artists, poets and musicians who passed on their wisdom to him. A celebration of the revelatory powers of walking, and by no means just for Bowie obsessives, BOWIELAND opens up our geography in ways rarely seen or so well understood.
Peter Carpenter's poetry has been widely anthologised and praised and his chapter on creative writing appears in The OUP Handbook of British and Irish Poetry. He has written essays and articles on a wide variety of subjects, from the photography of Boris Mikhailov to the poetry of T. S. Eliot, in journals such as London Magazine and PN Review. He contributed a chapter about rock star Gary Holton in London: City of Disappearances; and in Iain Sinclair's circuit around the M25, London Orbital, Peter appears as a character and guide. Born in Epsom, Peter now lives near Oxford with his wife, Amanda, a sustainability activist, who runs the acclaimed Planet Pod . They also co-direct cult independent micropress, Worple. Peter walks for life and still supports his local team.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.2.2026 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 196 mm |
| Gewicht | 220 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781800961562 / 9781800961562 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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