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Final Approach by Mark Blackburn

Posted on 31/01/2024 by Bobby Seal

Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. Final Approach is a long way from being the type of book I would normally read and enjoy. I do not share Mark Blackburn’s twin obsessions … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2023

Posted on 20/12/2023 by Bobby Seal

What is psychogeography, anyway?  My understanding of the concept is three-fold: it is a theory, a practice and a body of evidence.  The most interesting of these, for me, is the body of evidence: the books, works of art and … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2022

Posted on 24/11/2022 by Bobby Seal

What is psychogeography, anyway?  My understanding of the concept is three-fold: it is a theory, a practice and a body of evidence.  The most interesting of these, for me, is the body of evidence: the books, works of art and … Continue reading →

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The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Sara Wheeler

Posted on 16/03/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – March 2022 Herds of reindeer move across ice and snow. Slim-shouldered Lapps squatting on skidoos nose their animals towards an arc of stockades. A man in a corral holds a pair of velvet antlers while another jabs … Continue reading →

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Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo

Posted on 04/03/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – March 2022 My creativity can be traced back to my heritage, to the skin colour that defined how I was perceived. But, like my ancestors, I wouldn’t accept defeat. Manifesto is part memoir and part handbook providing … Continue reading →

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Play Power by Richard Neville

Posted on 07/01/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2022 Those most caught up in the syndrome of work/family/machine/sport/success/failure/guilt… are those most outraged by the evolving Underground alternative.                               Fifteen I … 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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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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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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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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