Low tide. bright sunshine and a bracing wind from the west – a perfect morning to walk over the sands to Hilbre in the Dee estuary. Something about the angle of the light at this time of year seems to … Continue reading
This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ – Jean Rhys ‘London: City of Disappearances’ – Iain Sinclair (Ed.) ‘Pavane’ – Keith Roberts ‘Erewhon’ – Samuel Butler ‘The Owl Service’ – … Continue reading
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Whilst sorting through my late father-in-law’s photographic equipment recently, I found a number of files of studies he had made of the ever-changing skies of Devon and Cornwall. He had lived with very bad health in his later years and this prevented him … Continue reading
One March afternoon I climbed over the fence which divides my neighbour’s land from mine, and walked on his farm as though it were my own. I looked on it, not in a jealously possessive way, but simply as I … Continue reading
This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: ‘Selected Essays’ – Virginia Woolf ‘Rodinsky’s Room’ – Rachel Lichtenstein & Iain Sinclair ‘Underground’ – Tobias Hill ‘England All Over’ – Joseph Gallivan ‘The Great God … Continue reading
Walking along my favourite local route. An old railway track – post-industrial, abandoned and overgrown, but still indelibly human-made. Cutting and bridge, a levelled track-bed. And when I dream I dream I can fly. The track passes under a busy … Continue reading
Until relatively recently, women have been noticeable only by their absence from the tradition of Anglo-American high modernism. T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats – these are the names which have dominated the English … Continue reading
Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes, drongs, snarns, snickets – say the names of paths out loud and they become a poem or rite – holloways, bostles, shutes, driftways, lichways, ridings, halterpaths, cartways, carneys, … Continue reading
This past month at Psychogeographic Review we have been been reading our Christmas presents: ‘The Old Ways’ – Robert MacFarlane ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ – Rebecca Solnit ‘London: The Autobiography’ – Jon E Lewis … Continue reading
Goodbye, blue sky Goodbye, blue sky Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye, blue sky Goodbye, blue sky Goodbye Goodbye from Goodbye Blue Sky by Joni Mitchell Godbye sun. Goodbye blue sky. Skyreburn, August 2011 A reminder to look up and see … Continue reading
