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Author Archives: Bobby Seal
Buried Garden: Lockdown With The Lost Poets Of Abney Park Cemetery, by Chris McCabe
Book Review – Halloween 2021 Buried Garden is the fourth volume of Chris McCabe’s exploration of the so-called lost poets of London’s Victorian cemeteries. These burial places, now known as the Magnificent Seven, were established on greenfield sites on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Machen, Books, cemetery, lockdown, London, Poetry, review, Stoke Newington
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A Dill Pickle
This piece is taken from a longer review of the short stories of Katherine Mansfield which I published in 2013. It was used by the composer, Matt Malsky, as the programme notes for his chamber opera, A Dill Pickle, which … Continue reading
Abandoned in the Woods: Part 2, Horsley Hall
In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself astray in a dark wood* Beyond the northern edge of the derelict Royal Pioneer Corps camp we visited in Part 1, the way through the wood is … Continue reading
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Tagged abandoned, army, eerie, Gresford, Horsley Hall, Jacobethan, urban exploration, woods
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Abandoned in the Woods: Part 1, The Lost Army Camp
‘It has a really creepy feel to it’, she said. ‘You’d love it!’ Ever since the first lockdown, Mrs S has gone out on her bike at least once a week, exploring the local lanes, going a little further and … Continue reading
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Tagged army, eerie, Horsley Hall Wood, Marford, No.12 Camp, Royal Pioneer Corps, woods
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A Garden Village
In 1913 the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust proposed an innovative new housing scheme in Wrexham; the first of its kind in Wales. Taking as their inspiration similar schemes at Port Sunlight on the Wirral and Bournville in Birmingham, … Continue reading
Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes From a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
Book Review – September 2021 In 1994, when Angela Merkel was Germany’s environment minister, her British opposite number, John Gummer, invited her to stay with him and his family in his Suffolk constituency. They spent each evening in his sitting … Continue reading
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
Book Review – August 2021 Warning: This review includes a quote of the racist expletives used by the perpetrator of a hate crime. According to the CPRE, just 1% of visitors to England’s National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural … Continue reading
Great Master / small boy – by Liz Lefroy
Book Review – August 2021 In the summer of 2018 Liz Lefroy and her son, Jonty, took a trip across central Europe. They visited Bonn and Vienna on the trail of art, architecture, history and sachertorte. They were also searching … Continue reading
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness – Patrick Wright
Book Review – July 2021 It may at first seem puzzling that Uwe Johnson, one of Germany’s most accomplished writers of the twentieth century, should spend the final ten years of his life in Sheerness on Kent’s Isle of Sheppey. … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, Books, DDR, estuary, Germany, Kent, Mecklenburg, review, Sheerness, Sheppey, Uwe Johnson
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Heavy Time: A Psychogeographer’s Pilgrimage by Sonia Overall
Book Review – July 2021 Sonia Overall was born and brought up in Ely, a cathedral city on a rocky island in England’s damp, black-soiled Fen country. A constant presence in her childhood was the river which flowed through the … Continue reading