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

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

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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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year

I’ve read over a hundred books this year. Yes, I’m afraid I’m the kind of nerd who actually keeps an annual record of these things. I’ve also, during the lockdown, discovered the joy of the audio-book, books downloaded from my … Continue reading

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A Year in Books

New books that Psychogeographic Review was reading in 2019:   Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jaqueline Riding       Palaces for the People: How to Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg   … Continue reading

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Of Ice and Fire: January 2019 Book Reviews

The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate – Nancy Campbell (Scribner UK, 2018) Nancy Campbell is a poet and a printmaker. She ascribes her fascination with the world’s icy places to the snow globe she had as a … Continue reading

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year

Essex, the Fens, Suffolk, Sussex and London; 2018 has been a good year for books in which the landscape, be it the countryside or city streets, plays a prominent role. There is no such thing as psychogeographic fiction. However, there … Continue reading

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December 2018 Reviews

All Among the Barley – Melissa Harrison (Bloomsbury, 2018) This is Melissa Harrison’s third novel. With All Among the Barley and its two predecessors, Clay and At Hawthorn Time, she is establishing herself as one of the country’s foremost nature … Continue reading

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November 2018 Reviews

Books Crudo – Olivia Laing (Picador, 2018) Kathy Acker did not die in 1997. She, or someone very much like her, lives on to witness the recent rise of right-leaning populism in Europe and the United States and, when we … Continue reading

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations of the Year

Book Recommendations Darran Anderson – Imaginary Cities (2015) Darran Anderson’s Imaginary Cities is a weighty, erudite book which propels the reader on an exhilarating journey through the history of the city in art, architecture and the human imagination. But, like some … Continue reading

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – October 2015

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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