Monthly Archives: January 2019

Return to Fieldgate Street

Posted on 29/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Patti Smith, Just Kids When I was a student in London in the 1970s I lived in a tenement block called Fieldgate Mansions … Continue reading →

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Mothlight by Adam Scovell

Posted on 25/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

  I scraped away a line of dust from the glass to reveal the moth inside. It had faded too, its lower left wing detached almost entirely and now disintegrating at the bottom of the frame. Something struck me about … Continue reading →

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Of Ice and Fire: January 2019 Book Reviews

Posted on 22/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate – Nancy Campbell (Scribner UK, 2018) Nancy Campbell is a poet and a printmaker. She ascribes her fascination with the world’s icy places to the snow globe she had as a … Continue reading →

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Misty Morning

Posted on 20/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

Misty morning Damp, clinging blanket Icy wheedling fingers Into every crevice and crack The trees a hazy, spectral vision Winter-breathed image upon smoked glass slide      

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Croft Peace Garden

Posted on 10/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

The Croft Peace Garden is a small parcel of land in Holt Street, Wrexham. It is built on ground that was formerly a burial site for members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). In 1963 the site was gifted to … Continue reading →

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Underpass: A Sinister Turn

Posted on 09/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.                                                       Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister       … Continue reading →

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