Tag Archives: London

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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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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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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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 Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 10

Posted on 02/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a water way leading to the … Continue reading →

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Freedom of Movement by Reuben Lane

Posted on 01/01/2020 by Bobby Seal

When I am cycling around London, my bike is my home. When I am sat on park benches or in cafes or in galleries writing, my notebook is my home. Freedom of Movement drops the reader straight into the life … Continue reading →

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Return to Fieldgate Street

Posted on 29/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Patti Smith, Just Kids When I was a student in London in the 1970s I lived in a tenement block called Fieldgate Mansions … Continue reading →

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Winter 2017/18 Reviews

Posted on 07/12/2017 by Bobby Seal

A collection of seasonal reading loosely connected by the themes of landscape, time and memory… The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City – Iain Sinclair This is the eighteenth and supposedly final chapter of Iain Sinclair’s London novel. … Continue reading →

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