Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

From Streetwalker to Street Walker: The Rise of the Flâneuse

Posted on 24/10/2012 by Bobby Seal

In fact and in fantasy, London had become a contested terrain: new commercial spaces and journalist practices, expanding networks of female philanthropy, and a range of public spectacles . . . enabled workingmen and women of many classes to challenge … Continue reading →

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Woolf at the Door 2: Mrs Dalloway’s Inner Flâneur

Posted on 19/10/2012 by Bobby Seal

  In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Peter Walsh is the most obvious flâneur character; he is able to wander the streets of London with an abandon even the patrician Clarissa Dalloway cannot manage. In an encounter which in its imagery … Continue reading →

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Woolf at the Door 1: The City and Modernism

Posted on 17/10/2012 by Bobby Seal

(Cities were) more than accidental meeting places and crossing points. They were generative environments of the new arts, focal points of intellectual community, indeed of intellectual conflict and tension. (Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane (ed), Modernism: A Guide to European … Continue reading →

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One Moonlit Night – Book of the Month – October 2012

Posted on 10/10/2012 by Bobby Seal

  Several years ago I had a friend, Henk, whom I would meet up with from time to time to ‘drink beer and talk bollocks’, as he put it. For a period of several months he would invariably turn the … Continue reading →

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October 2012

Posted on 04/10/2012 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:    ‘Maurice’ – E.M. Forster    ‘The Best of Dorothy Parker’ – erm, Dorothy Parker    ‘Explorers of the New Century’ – Magnus Mills    ‘The Awakening’ – Kate Chopin    ‘Journey Through … Continue reading →

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Walking Alone

Posted on 24/09/2012 by Bobby Seal

  Imagine you were a child with undiagnosed asthma and older brothers who always raced ahead when you were out walking. Supposing too that you were so completely urban in your upbringing that you always experienced a feeling of spatial … Continue reading →

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Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke

Posted on 12/09/2012 by Bobby Seal

I don’t normally publish notices at Psychogeographic Review but, since this event has been organised by this blog’s favourite poet, Liz Lefroy, and because it promises to be such a fantastic evening of wordsmithing, here goes… On Thursday 11th October … Continue reading →

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Not On Safari in Harlesden – Website of the Month, August 2012

Posted on 16/08/2012 by Bobby Seal

I first heard from Rose Rouse when she asked me if I knew of any women involved in psychogeography.  The fact that there are, indeed, so few prominent female psychogeographers is a subject ripe for investigation, but that’s for another … Continue reading →

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Psychogeography: Taking Back the City

Posted on 08/08/2012 by Bobby Seal

  The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automatically followed in aimless strolls … Continue reading →

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St. Giles Churchyard

Posted on 30/07/2012 by Bobby Seal

  Pictures taken in St Giles churchyard, Wrexham and a poem written at the grave of Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University.       At the grave of Elihu Yale.   Born in America, in Europe bred.   Summer … Continue reading →

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