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The Valley Works: Mendelssohn, Mustard Gas and Memory

Posted on 27/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

What connects lead-mining, Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Kingsley and a secret chemical weapons plant in North Wales?  Read all about it in this new piece by Bobby Seal available now at Unofficial Britain Unofficial Britain is ‘a hub for unusual perspectives … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – March 2015

Posted on 26/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Liz Lefroy – ‘Mending the Ordinary’ (2014) Mending the Ordinary is Liz Lefroy’s third collection and, whilst the poems in this pamphlet demonstrate the growing depth and maturity of her work, they … Continue reading →

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Katherine Mansfield’s Olfactory Map of London

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

  Eight o’clock in the morning.  Miss Ada Moss lay in a black iron bedstead, staring up at the ceiling.  Her room, a Bloomsbury top-floor back, smelled of soot and face powder and the paper of fried potatoes she brought … Continue reading →

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A London Safari

Posted on 10/01/2015 by Bobby Seal

My plan was to simply walk and talk with as many different people as possible.  The idea was that these walks would become a kind of interview in motion, and that walking through this urban landscape would spark more tangential … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – December 2014

Posted on 05/12/2014 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Liz Berry – ‘Black Country’ (2014) Wench, yowm the colour of ower town: concrete, steel, oily rainbow of the cut. Liz Berry’s poems are intelligent, articulate and profound. They are also, proudly, … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – November 2014

Posted on 24/10/2014 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Olivia Laing – ‘The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking’ (2014) By coincidence I read this book during October, the month I gave up drinking alcohol using the excuse of supporting … Continue reading →

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Stream of Consciousness

Posted on 19/10/2014 by Bobby Seal

The Poem Hidden Inside One Year   To edit is to deconstruct. Put every word under the spotlight and make it account for itself There is a point where music, writing and visual art coalesce.  Perhaps this coalescence reached its … Continue reading →

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Sanctuary Wood

Posted on 01/09/2014 by Bobby Seal

Sanctuary Wood is the popular name for an uncultivated corner of land nestling in the rolling green Flemish countryside to the south-east of Ypres.  Marked as Hill 62 on Great War British military maps, the name Sanctuary Wood was first … Continue reading →

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Emily Dickinson: Intoxicated by Life

Posted on 12/05/2014 by Bobby Seal

  I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of … Continue reading →

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The London Nobody Knows

Posted on 09/05/2014 by Bobby Seal

I first saw this film in a late night television slot in the 1970s. It was made by Norman Cohen in 1968, but rather than presenting yet another montage of ‘swinging’ London and Carnaby Street, his film seemed to capture an older, … Continue reading →

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