Introduction ...7 // Part One // Chapter One : Place as Social Space...18 // 1.1. Walter Benjamin’s Cities...18 // 1.2. Lefebvre and the social production of space ...22 // 1: 3 David Harvey: place, space and postmodemity ...24 // Chapter Two: Space, Place and Difference...29 // 2.1. Michel de Certeau: Spatial Practices...29 // 2.2. Deleuze and Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus...32 // Chapter Three : Place, Poetics and the Earth...39 // 3.1. Heidegger: Being in Place...39 // 3.2. Charles Olson: Place and The Maximus Poems ...42 // 3.3. Arran Gare: theory, politics and the earth...43 // 3.4. Paul Carter and ‘The Lie of the Land’...48 // Part Two // Chapter Four: The Earlier Fiction of Raymond Williams ...55 // 4.1. Tony Pinkney: D.H. Lawrence, Raymond Williams...56 // Chapter Five: People of the Black Mountains 1 : The Beginning ...62 // 5.1. The Beginning: Introductory...64 // 5.2.5.2. The Beginning: 23,000 B.C. to 2,000 ?.?...69 // 5.3. The Beginning: 1700 B.C. — 51 A.D...74 // Chapter Six : People of the Black Mountains 2: The Eggs of the Eagle...80 // 5 // Part Three // Chapter Seven : Place and the Early Writing of Iain Sinclair...93 // 7.1 Early writing...99 // Chapter Eight: White Chappell: Scarlet Tracings...106 // Chapter Nine: Downriver...113 // Conclusions...126 // Bibliography...133 //