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Swimming Against the Stream

Posted on 18/06/2012 by Bobby Seal

  You dreamed of this island and I wanted to buy you the book Remember? You said it was too much.   The river sweeps past Hilbre’s rocks carrying the silt of Berwyn Hills out into the Celtic sea.   … Continue reading →

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Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project by Iain Sinclair – Book of the Month – June 2012

Posted on 07/06/2012 by Bobby Seal

Over the years I guess I must have read all of Iain Sinclair’s published works, or at least the ones made available through commercial publishers.  So it was with surprise that I read the gripes expressed by some reviewers of … Continue reading →

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Beating the Bounds: A Dérive Around the 1857 Boundaries of Brew Town

Posted on 22/05/2012 by Bobby Seal

Dewdrop had called it a circumnavigation, but the reverence with which he handles the map this morning as he shows me our route suggests it’s something more akin to a pilgrimage for him.  When he rang me last week he … Continue reading →

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Flânerie Seen Through a Lens: Light, Movement and Film

Posted on 10/05/2012 by Bobby Seal

I am fascinated by how the creative process of film-making links with the practice of the flâneur, feminism and early modernist fiction. The modern(ist) metropolis and the institution of cinema came into being at about the same time.  Their juxtaposition … Continue reading →

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Book of the Month – April 2012 – George Gissing’s The Nether World

Posted on 30/04/2012 by Bobby Seal

George Gissing is, in many ways, a forgotten author.  His subject matter was unrelentingly grim, his world view invariably pessimistic and his work lacked any hint of literary experimentation.  Perhaps, then, he deserves to be forgotten.  But that would be … Continue reading →

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Cléo’s Journey

Posted on 24/04/2012 by Bobby Seal

For me, the most fascinating thing about the film Cléo From 5 to 7 is Cléo’s journey through Paris.  She travels on foot, by bus and in a car, her physical journey seeming to mirror her inner odyssey.  Paris, as … Continue reading →

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Agnès Varda’s Cléo From 5 to 7

Posted on 23/04/2012 by Bobby Seal

Cléo From 5 to 7 is one of the key films of the French New Wave.  Director Agnès Varda sets out to create a cinematic odyssey about our perception of time, with much of the action filmed in real time … Continue reading →

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Website of the Month – April 2012 – The Marshman Chronicles

Posted on 02/04/2012 by Bobby Seal

In creating the Marshman Chronicles Gareth Rees hasn’t just put together a blog, he has created a world.  A world of strange sights and sounds and fascinating people.  A world inhabited by ghosts of the past, present and future.  A … Continue reading →

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Windscreen Cinema

Posted on 24/03/2012 by Bobby Seal

I discovered the idea of windscreen cinema on a drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas last summer.  I sat in the front passenger seat all the way and became fascinated by how the landscape moved and changed before me, … Continue reading →

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Book of the Month – April 2012 – Gillian Tindall: The Fields Beneath

Posted on 21/03/2012 by Bobby Seal

I found my copy of Gillian Tindall’s The Fields Beneath in a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway one August afternoon last year.  Strange to be buying a London book on a visit to Scotland, but I felt pathetically … Continue reading →

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