Category Archives: Book of the Month

The Clandestine Farm

One March afternoon I climbed over the fence which divides my neighbour’s land from mine, and walked on his farm as though it were my own.  I looked on it, not in a jealously possessive way, but simply as I … Continue reading

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Gender, Truth and Reality: The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

  Until relatively recently, women have been noticeable only by their absence from the tradition of Anglo-American high modernism. T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats – these are the names which have dominated the English … Continue reading

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The Riddle of the Sands

  We had an old copy of The Riddle of the Sands in our house when I was a boy.  It seemed to me that we’d had it forever, though the inscription in it told me that it was actually … Continue reading

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Daniel Defoe and Psychogeography

Psychogeographic Review is pleased to publish its first guest post, with Joe Clarke championing Daniel Defoe’s role as an early psychogeographer.  All views expressed as those of Joe Clarke.     Defoe’s contribution to the history of psychogeography is twofold. … Continue reading

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Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers – Humphrey Jennings – Book of the Month, November 2012

  I first read Pandaemonium shortly after it was published in 1985 and have enjoyed dipping into it from time to time ever since. I have the Andre Deutsch version, the one with the cover featuring P.J. de Loutherbourg’s ‘Coalbrookdale … Continue reading

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Woolf at the Door 2: Mrs Dalloway’s Inner Flâneur

  In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Peter Walsh is the most obvious flâneur character; he is able to wander the streets of London with an abandon even the patrician Clarissa Dalloway cannot manage. In an encounter which in its imagery … Continue reading

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Woolf at the Door 1: The City and Modernism

(Cities were) more than accidental meeting places and crossing points. They were generative environments of the new arts, focal points of intellectual community, indeed of intellectual conflict and tension. (Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane (ed), Modernism: A Guide to European … Continue reading

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One Moonlit Night – Book of the Month – October 2012

  Several years ago I had a friend, Henk, whom I would meet up with from time to time to ‘drink beer and talk bollocks’, as he put it. For a period of several months he would invariably turn the … Continue reading

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Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project by Iain Sinclair – Book of the Month – June 2012

Over the years I guess I must have read all of Iain Sinclair’s published works, or at least the ones made available through commercial publishers.  So it was with surprise that I read the gripes expressed by some reviewers of … Continue reading

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Film of the Month – May 2012 – Flânerie Seen Through a Lens: Light, Movement and Film

Something different this month; rather than reviewing a specific film we are looking at how the creative process of film-making links with the practice of the flâneur, feminism and early modernist fiction.  The modern(ist) metropolis and the institution of cinema … Continue reading

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