Overview
'Layered London, black, funny, marshy, full of horrible vigour & hidden channels.'
– M. John Harrison.
'Marshland is essential reading – a psychedelic trip into London’s secret wilderness.'
– John Rogers
'I had become a bit part in the dengue-fevered fantasy of a sick city.'
Cocker spaniel by his side, Gareth E. Rees wanders the marshes of Hackney, Leyton, and Walthamstow, avoiding his family and the pressures of life.
He discovers a lost world of Victorian filter plants, ancient grazing lands, dead toy factories and tidal rivers on the edgelands of a rapidly changing city.
As strange tales of bears, crocodiles, magic narrowboats, and apocalyptic tribes begin to manifest, Rees embarks on a psychedelic journey across time and into the dark heart of London itself.
First published by Influx Press in 2013, Marshland is a deep map of the east London marshes where nothing it as it seems, blending local history, folklore, and weird fiction in a genre-straddling classic of contemporary place writing
This fully revised and expanded 2024 edition features brand-new material and never before-seen photographs from the author’s archive.
– M. John Harrison.
'Marshland is essential reading – a psychedelic trip into London’s secret wilderness.'
– John Rogers
'I had become a bit part in the dengue-fevered fantasy of a sick city.'
Cocker spaniel by his side, Gareth E. Rees wanders the marshes of Hackney, Leyton, and Walthamstow, avoiding his family and the pressures of life.
He discovers a lost world of Victorian filter plants, ancient grazing lands, dead toy factories and tidal rivers on the edgelands of a rapidly changing city.
As strange tales of bears, crocodiles, magic narrowboats, and apocalyptic tribes begin to manifest, Rees embarks on a psychedelic journey across time and into the dark heart of London itself.
First published by Influx Press in 2013, Marshland is a deep map of the east London marshes where nothing it as it seems, blending local history, folklore, and weird fiction in a genre-straddling classic of contemporary place writing
This fully revised and expanded 2024 edition features brand-new material and never before-seen photographs from the author’s archive.
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