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Under the Shadow of Polaris

Posted on 19/12/2013 by Bobby Seal

For Gillian and Christine, with thanks I wrote about the contrary romance of the Loggerheads to Woodside bus journey elsewhere in this blog in my piece about my visit to Rock Park in search of the writer, May Sinclair.  In … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 13

Posted on 19/12/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 12

Posted on 12/12/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 11

Posted on 05/12/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – December 2013

Posted on 04/12/2013 by Bobby Seal

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:   Frank O’Hara – ‘Lunch Poems’ (1986) Frank O’Hara was a leading figure in the New York School of poetry of the early 1960s.  Like other members of the school, his … Continue reading →

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Looking for May

Posted on 29/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Mary Amelia St. Clair, known as May Sinclair, was born in Rock Ferry, Wirral in 1863.  Her family lived in a house called Thorncote in the prosperous Rock Park suburb and she spent the first seven years of her life … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 10

Posted on 28/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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Wild London

Posted on 25/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Gareth E. Rees, with illustrations by Ada Jusic, Marshland: Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London (London, Influx Press, 2013)   In the lower Lea Valley the river carves a border between the modern boroughs of Hackney, Leyton and … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 9

Posted on 21/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate … Continue reading →

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Baudelaire, Benjamin and the Birth of the Flâneur

Posted on 14/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

  On voit un chiffonnier qui vient, hochant la tête, Butant, et se cognant aux murs comme un poète, Et, sans prendre souci des mouchards, ses sujets, Epanche tout son coeur en glorieux projets. Charles Baudelaire: ‘Le Vin de Chiffonniers’ … Continue reading →

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