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The Flow of Time: Week 2

Posted on 03/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

Watching the water flow past a bend in the river. The same place, the same time of day, every week for 52 weeks. A year in the life. Week 2 The rain is steady and insistent. Underfoot the ground is … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of Manchester Square

Posted on 01/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

It was part of the sisters’ duties to come to Manchester Square on market days to buy what was needed at home. A few months ago I was reading a book called Miriam from an author by the name of … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Week 1

Posted on 25/02/2020 by Bobby Seal

Watching the water flow past a bend in the river. The same place, the same time of day, every week for 52 weeks. A year in the life. Week 1 Finish at noon and walk to the river, tired from … Continue reading →

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How Pale the Winter Has Made Us by Adam Scovell

Posted on 06/02/2020 by Bobby Seal

 Novelist, critic and film-maker, Adam Scovell is a prodigious young talent. In How Pale the Winter Has Made Us he introduces us to Isabelle, a young British academic adrift and alone in Strasbourg. She overwinters in this rainy corner of … Continue reading →

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A Year in Books

Posted on 13/01/2020 by Bobby Seal

New books that Psychogeographic Review was reading in 2019:   Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jaqueline Riding       Palaces for the People: How to Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg   … Continue reading →

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Freedom of Movement by Reuben Lane

Posted on 01/01/2020 by Bobby Seal

When I am cycling around London, my bike is my home. When I am sat on park benches or in cafes or in galleries writing, my notebook is my home. Freedom of Movement drops the reader straight into the life … Continue reading →

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Object Z

Posted on 07/10/2019 by Bobby Seal

Imagine a world facing a crisis, an existential crisis in which the very survival of the planet and all forms of life upon it are threatened. Again and again the world’s scientists and experts warn us: pointing out that the … Continue reading →

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The Masque of Anarchy (in the UK)

Posted on 05/10/2019 by Bobby Seal

  As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.     24th May 2004 Paper coin — that forgery … Continue reading →

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Car Park Life by Gareth E Rees

Posted on 19/08/2019 by Bobby Seal

Car parks are an intrinsic part of the landscape, like them or not, and if they are going to encroach on the space where our common grounds, marketplaces, municipal buildings, factories and marshlands once were, then we have a right … Continue reading →

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The Ghost Railway

Posted on 19/03/2019 by Bobby Seal

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter T.S. Eliot – ‘The Waste Land’ A spring morning with an eerie stillness in the air and a sense of foreboding within me. Keep … Continue reading →

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