Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

The City, Modernism and the Flâneuse

Posted on 20/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

  The passing of the historical figure paved the way for the resurrection of the flâneur as a methodological persona, adopted in order to pursue the exploration of the city. Stripped to its basic characteristics and used as a modus … Continue reading →

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City of Exiles by Stuart Braun

Posted on 13/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

The first time I visited Berlin was in the spring of 1989. Falling into conversation with a Berliner on a bus one day I asked him if he thought the Wall would ever be taken down. Of course it would, … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – October 2015

Posted on 07/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Stuart Braun – City of Exiles (2015) Read my extended review of this book  at minor literature[s]           Simon Foxell – Mapping London: Making Sense of the City (2007) … Continue reading →

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Why I Am Not a Painter

Posted on 05/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

  Why I Am Not a Painter is one of my favourite Frank O’Hara poems.  He wrote it after a series of visits to his friend Michael Goldberg, the American abstract expressionist painter.  Like many have done so before and since O’Hara … Continue reading →

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October Sky

Posted on 01/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

October sky grey above – Sun glow claws at southern edge. Daggers of rain cold, vindictive. Leaf blown, withered. Slick wet paving mirrors sky. Grey on grey.  

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The Eye of the Inner Ear

Posted on 17/09/2015 by Bobby Seal

as the films of Davies illustrate so convincingly, ultimately it is the inner space of the individual imagination that matters most. Wendy Everett: The Eye of the Inner Ear: Terence Davies and the Space/Time Dimension, p.308.  Essay published in: Wendy … Continue reading →

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Poem No. 4

Posted on 16/09/2015 by Bobby Seal

    Rooted – in nurturing soil, a growth inarticulate in its proliferation Anorexic pruning – a painful birth revealing flowers of such unexpected beauty     Image: Culloden, August 2010

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Four Dogs

Posted on 08/09/2015 by Bobby Seal

I asked my friend Will to join me on this walk. Will has lived in Wrexham for most of his life and I hoped he could put a personal perspective on some of the places I planned to explore. Ever … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – September 2015

Posted on 25/08/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Iain Sinclair – London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line (2015) These days Sinclair writes like a man  aware that he is running out of time: words tumble out of … Continue reading →

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Confluence

Posted on 25/06/2015 by Bobby Seal

But where does the river sit in all of this: as a reflection of (and receptacle for) change?   Surface Tension, Rob St John This is as far as I can go.  I have been following the course of the River … Continue reading →

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