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Every Day until Antwerp: A Walking Trip along the Railway Line by Jacqueline Schoemaker

Posted on 04/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2022 Traffic arteries intersect. Megastores, stench and dust. Trucks thunder along the asphalt towards the motorway. Boels Rental, Esso Express (‘diesel only’). The road slopes upwards and becomes a bridge across the Albert Canal. A monumental … Continue reading →

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Susan Beckerleg

Posted on 28/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

I first met Susan Beckerleg in 1974. She and the girl I was going out with at the time shared a house in Tottenham and had been friends at school in Devon. She was introduced to me as ‘Beckanarm’, her … Continue reading →

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Taking Time Out

Posted on 27/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

An old book, discarded for years and then picked up again, can be a potent reminder of a time, a place and a stage in your life, casting you straight back to the time when you first read it. I found … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2021

Posted on 11/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

This year’s selection, presented in no particular order: Notes From an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä                                              … Continue reading →

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Westering: Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast by Laurence Mitchell

Posted on 07/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 The idea was to drift west, to etch a furrow in the map of England and Wales. My plan was to walk coast to coast across the country with some sort of agenda, to follow … Continue reading →

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Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay by Jeff Young

Posted on 02/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 I go to the pubs where Allen Ginsberg drank with Adrian Henri in May 1965 when he declared Liverpool to be ‘at the present moment, the centre of consciousness of the human universe’. I walk … Continue reading →

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Notes From an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä

Posted on 11/11/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – November 2021 We dreamed about what our new cabin would look like. The room would have four windows, one in each wall. Towards the south-east we’d need to see the big storms that rage right across the … Continue reading →

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Midges, Maps & Muesli by Helen Krasner

Posted on 01/11/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – November 2021 I met Helen Krasner briefly many years ago, not long after she had completed her epic walk around the coastline of Britain, which she talked about, but several years  before she published her account of … Continue reading →

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The White Birch: A Russian Reflection by Tom Jeffreys

Posted on 31/10/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – November 2021 It has been hand-planted by Tsarinas and felled by foresters. It has been celebrated by peasants, worshipped by pagans and painted by artists. It has self-seeded across mountains and rivers and train tracks and steppe … Continue reading →

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Buried Garden: Lockdown With The Lost Poets Of Abney Park Cemetery, by Chris McCabe

Posted on 22/10/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – Halloween 2021 Buried Garden is the fourth volume of Chris McCabe’s exploration of the so-called lost poets of London’s Victorian cemeteries. These burial places, now known as the Magnificent Seven, were established on greenfield sites on the … Continue reading →

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