Author Archives: Bobby Seal

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer

Play Power by Richard Neville

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Midges, Maps & Muesli by Helen Krasner

Book Review – November 2021 I met Helen Krasner briefly many years ago, not long after she had completed her epic walk around the coastline of Britain, which she talked about, but several years  before she published her account of … Continue reading

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The White Birch: A Russian Reflection by Tom Jeffreys

Book Review – November 2021 It has been hand-planted by Tsarinas and felled by foresters. It has been celebrated by peasants, worshipped by pagans and painted by artists. It has self-seeded across mountains and rivers and train tracks and steppe … Continue reading

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