BOWIELAND

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 BOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE Following open heart surgery poet and writer Peter Carpenter was given one instruction Walk if you want to stay on this planet And so when his hero and inspiration David Bowie died in 2016 he knew what he had to do The man who was to so many a companion and guide had left no shrine no focal point of understanding To reconnect with Bowie he would take a walk into the past to the streets towns and places where David Jones became something more Walking to recover to stay alive Peter realised he was also recovering his lost hero Leaving behind Heddon Street and Brixton well known Bowie shrines he moved out through South London edgelands and suburbia to remoter Bowie haunts Croydon Aylesbury Pett Level Southend on Sea Finding the windows Bowie had stared out from in Clareville Grove the streets in Beckenham where he d scurried by He sifted through debr