Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

STEPZ: Above Us Only Sky

Posted on 16/06/2015 by Bobby Seal

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination A few years ago, just after the birth of my youngest daughter, … Continue reading →

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A Sedimentary Resonance

Posted on 01/06/2015 by Bobby Seal

Viewed from my vantage point on the old lifeboat station, Hilbre’s role as guardian of the seaward approach to the River Dee becomes clear.  Her cliffs, layers of weathered red and yellow sandstone come to a point just here.  Sitting … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – May 2015

Posted on 30/04/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: My reading this month has leaned very heavily towards autobiographical works.  I didn’t plan to read these three books at the same time but, in doing so, I was struck by the … Continue reading →

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Return to the Chalets

Posted on 29/04/2015 by Bobby Seal

In April 2013 I wrote on this site about the plotlander movement of the inter-war years and the riverside chalets on the Dee at Farndon, near Chester.  The piece stirred up quite a lot of interest; I even heard from … Continue reading →

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Father of the Man: Terence Davies’s Trilogy

Posted on 03/04/2015 by Bobby Seal

Children, Madonna and Child and Death and Transfiguration move relentlessly through the three stages of Robbie’s life. But Davies consciously breaks the rules of linear time as he moves backwards and forwards exploring the jumble of Robbie’s memories, his youth, … Continue reading →

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The Valley Works: Mendelssohn, Mustard Gas and Memory

Posted on 27/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

What connects lead-mining, Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Kingsley and a secret chemical weapons plant in North Wales?  Read all about it in this new piece by Bobby Seal available now at Unofficial Britain Unofficial Britain is ‘a hub for unusual perspectives … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – March 2015

Posted on 26/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Liz Lefroy – ‘Mending the Ordinary’ (2014) Mending the Ordinary is Liz Lefroy’s third collection and, whilst the poems in this pamphlet demonstrate the growing depth and maturity of her work, they … Continue reading →

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‘The Lodger’ by Louisa Treger

Posted on 23/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

Ten minutes into the conversation I realise that the writer my MA supervisor is talking about is the same one I discovered for myself some months before, except she gives Walter Benjamin’s name the full Germanic pronunciation and I realise … Continue reading →

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Katherine Mansfield’s Olfactory Map of London

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

  Eight o’clock in the morning.  Miss Ada Moss lay in a black iron bedstead, staring up at the ceiling.  Her room, a Bloomsbury top-floor back, smelled of soot and face powder and the paper of fried potatoes she brought … Continue reading →

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Bolingbroke Heights

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

I previously wrote about Flint and its 1960s tower blocks in a piece called Towers of Flint back in October 2013.  The piece created quite a lot of interest and I was pleased to hear from Nada Shehab, an architecture student in Glasgow, who … Continue reading →

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