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The Riddle of the Sands

Posted on 10/01/2013 by Flaneur O'Connor

  We had an old copy of The Riddle of the Sands in our house when I was a boy.  It seemed to me that we’d had it forever, though the inscription in it told me that it was actually … Continue reading →

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Is There Anybody There?

Posted on 13/12/2012 by Bobby Seal

‘My garden is made of stone’ – Mark E Smith (Psykick Dance Hall) ‘My garden is all overgrown’ – Tony McPhee  (Garden)   With a front door opening straight onto the street you have to be careful you don’t let … Continue reading →

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Daniel Defoe and Psychogeography

Posted on 05/12/2012 by Bobby Seal

Psychogeographic Review is pleased to publish its first guest post, with Joe Clarke championing Daniel Defoe’s role as an early psychogeographer.  All views expressed as those of Joe Clarke.     Defoe’s contribution to the history of psychogeography is twofold. … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – December 2012

Posted on 01/12/2012 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:     ‘A Wreath of Roses’ – Elizabeth Taylor     ‘The Overhaul’ – Kathleen Jamie    ‘Stag’s Leap’ – Sharon Olds    ‘The Napoleon of Notting Hill’ – G.K. Chesterton    ‘Mister Pip’ … Continue reading →

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Michael Reeves and Witchfinder General

Posted on 28/11/2012 by Bobby Seal

  FADE IN EXT. SUFFOLK GARDEN, SUMMER’S DAY, 1958 Michael Reeves. Home from school for the long summer holiday.    NARRATOR (V.O.) Languid days in the garden and cigarettes behind the shed. Then writing long into the night, scripts meticulously … Continue reading →

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A Drift on Wat’s Dyke

Posted on 14/11/2012 by Bobby Seal

Swathed bodies in the long ditch; one eye upstaring. It is safe to presume, here, the king’s anger. He reigned forty years. Seasons touched and retouched the soil.  Heathland, new-made watermeadow. Charlock, marsh-marigold. Crepitant oak forest where the boar furrowed … Continue reading →

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Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers – Humphrey Jennings – Book of the Month, November 2012

Posted on 02/11/2012 by Bobby Seal

  I first read Pandaemonium shortly after it was published in 1985 and have enjoyed dipping into it from time to time ever since. I have the Andre Deutsch version, the one with the cover featuring P.J. de Loutherbourg’s ‘Coalbrookdale … Continue reading →

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November 2012

Posted on 31/10/2012 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:    ‘To the Lighthouse’ – Virginia Woolf    ‘Kid’ – Simon Armitage    ‘Four Quartets’ – T.S. Eliot    ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ – Charlotte Perkins Gilman    ‘Dracula’ – Bram Stoker    … Continue reading →

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From Streetwalker to Street Walker: The Rise of the Flâneuse

Posted on 24/10/2012 by Bobby Seal

In fact and in fantasy, London had become a contested terrain: new commercial spaces and journalist practices, expanding networks of female philanthropy, and a range of public spectacles . . . enabled workingmen and women of many classes to challenge … Continue reading →

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Woolf at the Door 2: Mrs Dalloway’s Inner Flâneur

Posted on 19/10/2012 by Bobby Seal

  In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Peter Walsh is the most obvious flâneur character; he is able to wander the streets of London with an abandon even the patrician Clarissa Dalloway cannot manage. In an encounter which in its imagery … Continue reading →

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