Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge

A great fusion of prose and verse, Lud Heat is an exploration of a contemporary city and the historical and mythical patterns that it hides. The churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor, built in an east London ravaged by fire and plague, are the sites of mystery and energy that animate this work. `Eight churches give us the enclosure, the shape of fear; built for early century optimism, erected over a fen of undisclosed horrors, white stones laid upon the mud and dust.' This edition also includes a remarkable series of texts on the mythology of place, Suicide Bridge...