Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

‘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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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – February 2015

Posted on 29/01/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Nan Shepherd – ‘In the Cairngorms’ (1934) Newly republished and with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane, this is the sole collection of poems by Scottish modernist writer, Nan Shepherd.  Shepherd walked in the Cairngorms whenever … Continue reading →

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A London Safari

Posted on 10/01/2015 by Bobby Seal

My plan was to simply walk and talk with as many different people as possible.  The idea was that these walks would become a kind of interview in motion, and that walking through this urban landscape would spark more tangential … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – December 2014

Posted on 05/12/2014 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Liz Berry – ‘Black Country’ (2014) Wench, yowm the colour of ower town: concrete, steel, oily rainbow of the cut. Liz Berry’s poems are intelligent, articulate and profound. They are also, proudly, … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – November 2014

Posted on 24/10/2014 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Olivia Laing – ‘The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking’ (2014) By coincidence I read this book during October, the month I gave up drinking alcohol using the excuse of supporting … Continue reading →

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Stream of Consciousness

Posted on 19/10/2014 by Bobby Seal

The Poem Hidden Inside One Year   To edit is to deconstruct. Put every word under the spotlight and make it account for itself There is a point where music, writing and visual art coalesce.  Perhaps this coalescence reached its … Continue reading →

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One Year Montage

Posted on 15/10/2014 by Bobby Seal

One Year is a project I stumbled into just over twelve months ago.  I started wondering about a view I looked at every day, the one from my office window. Would it look the same a year from now and … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – October 2014

Posted on 02/10/2014 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Hermann Hesse – ‘Steppenwolf’ (1927) On the surface Harry Haller is a respectable, educated and well-dressed pillar of the community.  But within lurks an alienated savagery: the lone wolf of the Steppes.  … Continue reading →

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