Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling: Black Apple of the Vorrh
Thursday 9 July 2015, 6 p.m. · 48 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/0/7/5/0/530570-7-eng-GB/5256d06d303c8.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/0/7/5/0/530570-7-eng-GB/5256d06d303c8.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/0/7/5/0/530570-7-eng-GB/5256d06d303c8.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/0/7/5/0/530570-7-eng-GB/5256d06d303c8.jpg 1200w)
Two very different books, Iain Sinclair’s Black Apples of Gower and Brian Catling’s The Vorrh share a measure of common ground: the Cave of Origin (in which all narratives fester and cook). Sinclair tramps the wave-cut limestone pavements beyond Port Eynon Point in search of mysteries derived from the paintings of Ceri Richards, where Catling plunges headlong into myths of the primal forest, for a novel described by Alan Moore as ‘a benchmark for the human imagination’. The two writers came together for a visit to Nuneham House, where the Rev. Buckland is purported to have devoured the most celebrated relic, the preserved heart of Louis XIV.
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