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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – October 2013

Posted on 02/10/2013 by Bobby Seal

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:    ‘Collected Works’ – Lorine Niedecker (ed. Jenny Penberthy)    ‘Veil: New and Selected Poems’ – Rae Armantrout    ‘Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems’ – Allen Ginsberg I’m including these three … Continue reading →

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One Year – Week 1

Posted on 26/09/2013 by Bobby Seal

Project Description One Year is a project through which it is intended to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from the artist’s study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when he sits down to work.  … Continue reading →

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Emily Dickinson’s Geography

Posted on 11/09/2013 by Bobby Seal

    Volcanoes be in Sicily (Poem 1705) VOLCANOES be in Sicily And South America, I judge from my geography. Volcanoes nearer here, A lava step, at any time, Am I inclined to climb, A crater I may contemplate, Vesuvius … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – September 2013

Posted on 04/09/2013 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: ‘Society of the Spectacle’ – Guy Debord Debord’s use of language in this short book is heavily-laden with Marxist and Hegelian terminology which some readers may find to be a little challenging.  … Continue reading →

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Between Walls

Posted on 18/08/2013 by Bobby Seal

Walking through an unfamiliar ribbon of land behind my local hospital, looking for an old footpath marked on the OS map, I was reminded of a short poem by William Carlos Williams. Williams writes of happening upon a liminal space … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – August 2013

Posted on 02/08/2013 by Bobby Seal

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: ‘Complete Poems’ – Walt Whitman Whitman is often described as the father of American poetry and, indeed, his influence can be traced right through to the beat poets of the 1950s.  … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon… an Experimental Psychogeographic Collaboration

Posted on 03/07/2013 by Bobby Seal

Charles Swain and Bobby Seal on location in Rhode Island and Merseyside.  Two writers spanning the Atlantic with words and images from two landscapes, skilfully cobbled together into one unique project.  Watch this space……

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – July 2013

Posted on 03/07/2013 by Bobby Seal

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:    ‘Selected Poems’ – Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson’s unique poems continue to reward with each successive reading:                             … Continue reading →

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The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic

Posted on 18/06/2013 by Bobby Seal

  That was when I was twenty, half my life ago, and a boy my age made the most politely democratic proposition I  ever received: would I like to make a movie with him in the ruined hospital near my … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Bingo Dérive

Posted on 12/06/2013 by Bobby Seal

  On a dérive one or more persons drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters … Continue reading →

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