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Wrexham Workhouse

Posted on 14/04/2023 by Bobby Seal

Having just read Anthony Trollope’s The Warden, with its depiction of a Victorian church almshouse, and recently discovering that one of my own ancestors, Mary Elizabeth Raley, was an assistant matron at Wakefield Workhouse in the nineteenth century, I felt … Continue reading →

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The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer

Posted on 03/04/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – April 2023 We come from water, and water runs through us. It carries our chemistry and our stories. It shows us more than itself: all the colours and none. We are mostly water for all of our … Continue reading →

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The Edge of Cymru: A Journey – by Julie Brominicks

Posted on 30/03/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – March 2023 Like biodiversity, Cymraeg survives, but only just, sustained by the farming community, championed by campaigners, enabled by legislators. A language survey in 2013-2015 found only 24 percent of the population spoke Cymraeg – but that … Continue reading →

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Resurrection River by Pete Evans

Posted on 22/01/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2023 The Alun is a river of tranquillity, of droughts, floods and trade; fortunes made and lost. At times it doesn’t exist at all and yet at the same time it is two rivers! For anyone … Continue reading →

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Edging the City by Peter Finch

Posted on 19/01/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2023 Circumnavigating the city and then writing home had been on my mind ever since I’d encountered Iain Sinclair’s walk around the M25, London Orbital, which came out in 2002. But it was the Covid crisis … Continue reading →

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Gathering of the Tribe: Landscape by Mark Goodall

Posted on 13/01/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2023 … a personal selection dredged from years of seeking out and listening to obscure and difficult music; music that is profound but which was made for reasons which the creators and performer are often at … Continue reading →

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The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley

Posted on 14/12/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2022 For such a seemingly innocuous activity, and one which is commonly conducted with the participant largely oblivious to its operation, the act of walking has aquired a surprising degree of cultural significance. This is a … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2022

Posted on 24/11/2022 by Bobby Seal

What is psychogeography, anyway?  My understanding of the concept is three-fold: it is a theory, a practice and a body of evidence.  The most interesting of these, for me, is the body of evidence: the books, works of art and … Continue reading →

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CB Editions

Posted on 21/11/2022 by Bobby Seal

the old punk spirit that inspires the best kind of artists: if you’re dissatisfied with the culture, do something about it. Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian CB Editions is the brainchild of writer and publisher Charles Boyle. He also commissions, edits, … Continue reading →

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The Half-Life of Snails by Philippa Holloway

Posted on 14/11/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – November 2022 The hollowness of the space like a migraine building behind her eyes. The landscape transformed by absence, defined by it. The Half-Life of Snails is a novel permeated by a sense of place. Philippa Holloway … Continue reading →

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