Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

John Bull Redux

Posted on 13/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

The United Kingdom left the European Union almost two years ago, but apparently everything that befalls us is still the EU’s fault. There is a British, or more specifically English, attitude to the rest of Europe that William Hazlitt succinctly … Continue reading →

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The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas

Posted on 12/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2022 It was an enchanted palace, She must try to find a way in! It was bound to be full of curious passages and doorways – and she must get in. It looked so extraordinary that … Continue reading →

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Play Power by Richard Neville

Posted on 07/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2022 Those most caught up in the syndrome of work/family/machine/sport/success/failure/guilt… are those most outraged by the evolving Underground alternative.                               Fifteen I … Continue reading →

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Every Day until Antwerp: A Walking Trip along the Railway Line by Jacqueline Schoemaker

Posted on 04/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2022 Traffic arteries intersect. Megastores, stench and dust. Trucks thunder along the asphalt towards the motorway. Boels Rental, Esso Express (‘diesel only’). The road slopes upwards and becomes a bridge across the Albert Canal. A monumental … Continue reading →

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Susan Beckerleg

Posted on 28/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

I first met Susan Beckerleg in 1974. She and the girl I was going out with at the time shared a house in Tottenham and had been friends at school in Devon. She was introduced to me as ‘Beckanarm’, her … Continue reading →

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Taking Time Out

Posted on 27/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

An old book, discarded for years and then picked up again, can be a potent reminder of a time, a place and a stage in your life, casting you straight back to the time when you first read it. I found … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2021

Posted on 11/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

This year’s selection, presented in no particular order: Notes From an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä                                              … Continue reading →

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Westering: Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast by Laurence Mitchell

Posted on 07/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 The idea was to drift west, to etch a furrow in the map of England and Wales. My plan was to walk coast to coast across the country with some sort of agenda, to follow … Continue reading →

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Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay by Jeff Young

Posted on 02/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 I go to the pubs where Allen Ginsberg drank with Adrian Henri in May 1965 when he declared Liverpool to be ‘at the present moment, the centre of consciousness of the human universe’. I walk … Continue reading →

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Notes From an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä

Posted on 11/11/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – November 2021 We dreamed about what our new cabin would look like. The room would have four windows, one in each wall. Towards the south-east we’d need to see the big storms that rage right across the … Continue reading →

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