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Of Ice and Fire: January 2019 Book Reviews

Posted on 22/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate – Nancy Campbell (Scribner UK, 2018) Nancy Campbell is a poet and a printmaker. She ascribes her fascination with the world’s icy places to the snow globe she had as a … Continue reading →

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Misty Morning

Posted on 20/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

Misty morning Damp, clinging blanket Icy wheedling fingers Into every crevice and crack The trees a hazy, spectral vision Winter-breathed image upon smoked glass slide      

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Croft Peace Garden

Posted on 10/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

The Croft Peace Garden is a small parcel of land in Holt Street, Wrexham. It is built on ground that was formerly a burial site for members of the Society of Friends (Quakers). In 1963 the site was gifted to … Continue reading →

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Underpass: A Sinister Turn

Posted on 09/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.                                                       Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister       … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year

Posted on 20/12/2018 by Bobby Seal

Essex, the Fens, Suffolk, Sussex and London; 2018 has been a good year for books in which the landscape, be it the countryside or city streets, plays a prominent role. There is no such thing as psychogeographic fiction. However, there … Continue reading →

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December 2018 Reviews

Posted on 13/12/2018 by Bobby Seal

All Among the Barley – Melissa Harrison (Bloomsbury, 2018) This is Melissa Harrison’s third novel. With All Among the Barley and its two predecessors, Clay and At Hawthorn Time, she is establishing herself as one of the country’s foremost nature … Continue reading →

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November 2018 Reviews

Posted on 20/11/2018 by Bobby Seal

Books Crudo – Olivia Laing (Picador, 2018) Kathy Acker did not die in 1997. She, or someone very much like her, lives on to witness the recent rise of right-leaning populism in Europe and the United States and, when we … Continue reading →

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October 2018 Reviews

Posted on 22/10/2018 by Bobby Seal

Books Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast – Tom Bolton (Penned in the Margins, 2018) Think of Essex and what comes to mind? For many it will be Norman Tebbit, Teddy Taylor and that peculiarly Essex-led brand of working-class … Continue reading →

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Fieldgate Street

Posted on 01/09/2018 by Bobby Seal

Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Patti Smith Just Kids       The streets haunt you, just as echoes of you haunt them.  You walk past the bell … Continue reading →

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Adventures at the End of the World: A Review of The Stone Tide by Gareth E. Rees

Posted on 18/02/2018 by Bobby Seal

I have to confess that when I first heard that Gareth Rees was moving from his home in East London to the Sussex coastal resort of Hastings it seemed to me odd for a relatively young writer to be forsaking … Continue reading →

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