Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

Wild London

Posted on 25/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Gareth E. Rees, with illustrations by Ada Jusic, Marshland: Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London (London, Influx Press, 2013)   In the lower Lea Valley the river carves a border between the modern boroughs of Hackney, Leyton and … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 9

Posted on 21/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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Baudelaire, Benjamin and the Birth of the Flâneur

Posted on 14/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

  On voit un chiffonnier qui vient, hochant la tête, Butant, et se cognant aux murs comme un poète, Et, sans prendre souci des mouchards, ses sujets, Epanche tout son coeur en glorieux projets. Charles Baudelaire: ‘Le Vin de Chiffonniers’ … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 8

Posted on 14/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which the artist intends to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from his study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when he sits down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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A Psychogeographic Collaboration by Charles Swain and Bobby Seal

Posted on 07/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

  …the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 7

Posted on 07/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which the artist intends to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from his study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when he sits down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – November 2013

Posted on 01/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Ron Silliman – Under Albany (2004) Ron Silliman is one of America’s greatest living poets and a founder of the language poetry school.  His best known poem, Albany, is a hundred-sentence … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 6

Posted on 31/10/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which the artist intends to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from his study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when he sits down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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Towers of Flint

Posted on 25/10/2013 by Bobby Seal

          That from this castle’s tatter’d battlements           Our fair appointments may be well perused.           Methinks King Richard and myself should meet           … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 5

Posted on 24/10/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which the artist intends to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from his study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when he sits down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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