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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2024
The city is a map of stories, and in them we are both the inhabitants and the explorers. Zadie Smith (from NW) At Psychogeographic Review I write about the books, poems, maps, photographs, paintings, films and music that help us to … Continue reading
Posted in Home, Reviews
Tagged Books, Charlie Hill, Gareth E Rees, Jeff Young, Jon Woolcott, Mark Blackburn, reviews, Tim Cooke, Wiilliam Burns
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Two Arrow Falls (from Chester City Walls) by Giants of Discovery
Music Review – November 2024 The Wirral, where I was born and bred, has an incredibly rich Viking heritage and is the only place in mainland Britain to have documented evidence of Norwegian Viking Settlers, from 902AD. This album is a … Continue reading
Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns
Book Review – November 2024 Is nostalgia a harmless skip down memory lane? Can nostalgia be used like propaganda to mollify, entice, and seduce: encouraging us to turn off our critical thinking, stick our heads in the sand, and revel in … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Film, Folk Horror, hauntology, horror, Music, Television
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Halloween 2024
I’m not a huge fan of Halloween, though I am looking forward to going to a kids’ Halloween party later on today. Nor do I particularly enjoy horror as an artistic genre. But I have many exceptions to this aversion: … Continue reading
Wild Twin by Jeff Young
Book Review – October 2024 One of the things that struck me about all of this junk was that every single object was a repository of someone else’s memory, because it had got to the auction rooms from the house clearances … Continue reading
This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land by Charlie Hill
Book Review – September 2024 I had for some time believed the key to effective writing was to concentrate on the surface of things. Record them faithfully, and they’d do the work for you. After all, the world is manifestly absurd … Continue reading
Muntjac by Clevelode
Music Review – July 2024 Although I left this place, part of me remains (this is) very much musical psychogeography ~ Paul Newland I have fond memories of The Lowland Hundred. They provided me with a soundtrack for the middle-teen … Continue reading
Going to Ground: An Anthology of Nature and Place – Ed. by Jon Woolcott
Book Review – July 2024 This new space encompassed not only the rural, but also the urban, suburban, the in-between places, the industrial or post-industrial, the abandoned, and the places that humans were coming to live in for the first … Continue reading
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Sunken Lands by Gareth E. Rees
Book Review – April 2024 I started my journey with hope that I could contribute in a microscopic way to the groundswell of storytelling that might help us see what has gone wrong with our civilisation and understand what we … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantis, climate change, Cornwall, Fens, Fiji, flooding, global warmimg, lost civilisations, Marshall Islands, Rome, Scilly Isles, sea level rise, The Lowland Hundred, Tuvalu, Wales
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