Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – July 2013

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:    ‘Selected Poems’ – Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson’s unique poems continue to reward with each successive reading:                             … Continue reading

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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic

  That was when I was twenty, half my life ago, and a boy my age made the most politely democratic proposition I  ever received: would I like to make a movie with him in the ruined hospital near my … Continue reading

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Psychogeographic Bingo Dérive

  On a dérive one or more persons drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters … Continue reading

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – June 2013

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:      ‘Cullodon’ – John Prebble Written in 1961 but still the definitive account of the Battle of Culloden.  Prebble sets the battle in its social context and makes liberal use … Continue reading

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Jude the Obscure: Reflections on a Working Landscape

  Work is what transforms the raw stuff of nature into meaning, gathering it into a human project. And in few English novelists is work as central as in Hardy. Terry Eagleton, The English Novel: An Introduction Work is one … Continue reading

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Grim Day at Grimspound

Of course we could just have driven and parked on the lane off the B3212; a short walk from there would take us directly to Grimspound.  But instead we chose to walk there over the moor from Scorriton, which made … Continue reading

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And All the Wheels of Being

Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment. Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; … Continue reading

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – May 2013

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:    ‘Scarp’ – Nick Papadimitriou Nick Papadimitriou’s meditation on walking, landscape and his upbringing in North London under the shadow of the ridge of land he refers to as Scarp    … Continue reading

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Clerkenwell: drift and prams

A guest post by Fernando Sdrigotti Clerkenwell: a hectic hub in the centre of London. Today, as always, several times co-exist here. Today, the times of the media industry, the postal workers, the Italian Diaspora, and a (mostly white) working-class. … Continue reading

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The Chalets of Farndon

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  The chalet colony, through which I walked with Anna on that bright morning, was larger and more cheerful than the neighbouring villages.  Nobody needed an expulsion order to move in. ‘Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project’ – … Continue reading

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