Tag Archives: Berlin

In the Pines by Paul Scraton and Eymelt Sehmer

Posted on 26/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2022   What else lives here, among these trees? You recall the stories, your father’s gentle voice. There was no need to shout in the forest, he said, as he explained all the living beings that … Continue reading →

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The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness – Patrick Wright

Posted on 28/07/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – July 2021 It may at first seem puzzling that Uwe Johnson, one of Germany’s most accomplished writers of the twentieth century, should spend the final ten years of his life in Sheerness on Kent’s Isle of Sheppey. … Continue reading →

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Elsewhere: A Journal of Place

Posted on 17/11/2016 by Bobby Seal

  We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding   I missed the first three editions … Continue reading →

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City of Exiles by Stuart Braun

Posted on 13/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

The first time I visited Berlin was in the spring of 1989. Falling into conversation with a Berliner on a bus one day I asked him if he thought the Wall would ever be taken down. Of course it would, … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – October 2015

Posted on 07/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Stuart Braun – City of Exiles (2015) Read my extended review of this book  at minor literature[s]           Simon Foxell – Mapping London: Making Sense of the City (2007) … Continue reading →

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