Monthly Archives: December 2021

Susan Beckerleg

Posted on 28/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

I first met Susan Beckerleg in 1974. She and the girl I was going out with at the time shared a house in Tottenham and had been friends at school in Devon. She was introduced to me as ‘Beckanarm’, her … Continue reading →

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Taking Time Out

Posted on 27/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

An old book, discarded for years and then picked up again, can be a potent reminder of a time, a place and a stage in your life, casting you straight back to the time when you first read it. I found … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2021

Posted on 11/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

This year’s selection, presented in no particular order: Notes From an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä                                              … Continue reading →

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Westering: Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast by Laurence Mitchell

Posted on 07/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 The idea was to drift west, to etch a furrow in the map of England and Wales. My plan was to walk coast to coast across the country with some sort of agenda, to follow … Continue reading →

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Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay by Jeff Young

Posted on 02/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 I go to the pubs where Allen Ginsberg drank with Adrian Henri in May 1965 when he declared Liverpool to be ‘at the present moment, the centre of consciousness of the human universe’. I walk … Continue reading →

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