Black Apples of Gower

Iain Sinclair, the celebrated author and psycho-geographer, walks back along the blue-grey roads and cliff-top paths of his childhood in south Wales, rediscovering the Gower peninsula. Provoked by the strange and enigmatic series of paintings Afal du Brogwyr (Black Apple of Gower) made by the artist Ceri Richards in the 1950s, Sinclair leaves behind the familiar "murky elsewheres" of his life in Hackney, London, carrying an envelope of photographs and old postcards, along with fragments of memory.

He soon realizes that a series of walks over the same ground—from Port Eynon Point to Worm's Head—have become significant waymarks in his life. His recollections of a meeting with the poet Vernon Watkins, the art of Richards and the poetry of Dylan Thomas lead him on a journey through landscape and memory.

The final destination of this haunting pilgrimage is the Paviland Cave, where in 1823 human remains 36,000 years old were discovered—a place where deep history and personal remembrance converge.