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Pretending the Weather

  Liz Lefroy is a poet.  She writes about family, faith and loss.  She writes to celebrate the sheer joy of words.  Her first collection of poems is called Pretending the Weather and the two poems that follow are from … Continue reading

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What If?

A picture taken in Kirkcudbright.  It had been raining most of the day, but stopped just before I spotted this at the end of a little alleyway we had wandered along. So what if the Hokey Cokey really is what … Continue reading

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Deva Dérive

Deva Victrix: outpost of the Roman Empire, bulwark against the raiding Brigantes and garrison home of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix.  Nowadays known as Chester. A day out in Chester offers the opportunity to explore the city: to walk its … Continue reading

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March 2012

Welcome to Psychogeographic Review A website that explores the art of psychogeography.  Each month we will publish a psychogeograpy-inspired Editorial, Book of the Month, Film of the Month and Website of the Month. For March we bring you: Walter Benjamin … Continue reading

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Book of the Month – March 2012 – Dorothy Richardson: Pilgrimage

Dorothy Miller Richardson is a sadly neglected writer. A number of feminist critics began to take up her cause in the 1980s, but I feel it is now time that those of us who class ourselves as psychogeographers should also … Continue reading

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Film of the Month – March 2012 – Radio On

We are the children of Fritz Lang and Werner von Braun. We are the link between the 20’s and the 80’s. All changes in society passes through a sympathetic collaboration with tape recorders, synthesisers and telephones. Our reality is an … Continue reading

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Website of the Month – March 2012 – Urban Adventure in Rotterdam

At the confluence of the Rhine and the Meuse sits Rotterdam.  Her eyes looking west, out into the cold, muddy Noordzee and across the Atlantic to America, her heart plugged into the brooding river waters flowing ceaselessly out from Mitteleuropa.  … Continue reading

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Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project

In many ways The Arcades Project is Benjamin’s lament for the passing of the flâneur. For Benjamin, the flâneur’s disappearance functions as a symbol for the ravages of capitalism upon metropolitan life.  The changing urban environment was no longer conducive … Continue reading

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