Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

Dark Play by Tim Cooke

Posted on 10/11/2024 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – November 2024 I woke to thud and a crack, a small face ricocheting away from the glass. The features – much like my own – creased into a familiar frown. A spurt of blood spilled from a crevice … Continue reading →

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Halloween 2024

Posted on 31/10/2024 by Bobby Seal

I’m not a huge fan of Halloween, though I am looking forward to going to a kids’ Halloween party later on today. Nor do I particularly enjoy horror as an artistic genre. But I have many exceptions to this aversion: … Continue reading →

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Wild Twin by Jeff Young

Posted on 29/10/2024 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – October 2024 One of the things that struck me about all of this junk was that every single object was a repository of someone else’s memory, because it had got to the auction rooms from the house clearances … Continue reading →

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This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land by Charlie Hill

Posted on 16/09/2024 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – September 2024 I had for some time believed the key to effective writing was to concentrate on the surface of things. Record them faithfully, and they’d do the work for you. After all, the world is manifestly absurd … Continue reading →

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Muntjac by Clevelode

Posted on 11/07/2024 by Bobby Seal

Music Review – July 2024 Although I left this place, part of me remains (this is) very much musical psychogeography ~ Paul Newland I have fond memories of The Lowland Hundred. They provided me with a soundtrack for the middle-teen … Continue reading →

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Going to Ground: An Anthology of Nature and Place – Ed. by Jon Woolcott

Posted on 09/07/2024 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – July 2024 This new space encompassed not only the rural, but also the urban, suburban, the in-between places, the industrial or post-industrial, the abandoned, and the places that humans were coming to live in for the first … Continue reading →

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Sunken Lands by Gareth E. Rees

Posted on 03/06/2024 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – April 2024 I started my journey with hope that I could contribute in a microscopic way to the groundswell of storytelling that might help us see what has gone wrong with our civilisation and understand what we … Continue reading →

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The Wrecking Ball

Posted on 15/04/2024 by Bobby Seal

Not so long ago The Guardian called Wrexham ‘a veritable Paris of what is lost’. For, despite the city’s rich history as a market town and the UNESCO World Heritage Site status of its Pontcysyllte aqueduct, Wrexham is most notable … Continue reading →

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Final Approach by Mark Blackburn

Posted on 31/01/2024 by Bobby Seal

Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. Final Approach is a long way from being the type of book I would normally read and enjoy. I do not share Mark Blackburn’s twin obsessions … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2023

Posted on 20/12/2023 by Bobby Seal

What is psychogeography, anyway?  My understanding of the concept is three-fold: it is a theory, a practice and a body of evidence.  The most interesting of these, for me, is the body of evidence: the books, works of art and … Continue reading →

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