Tag Archives: memory

Wild Twin by Jeff Young

Posted on 29/10/2024 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – October 2024 One of the things that struck me about all of this junk was that every single object was a repository of someone else’s memory, because it had got to the auction rooms from the house clearances … Continue reading →

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Muntjac by Clevelode

Posted on 11/07/2024 by Bobby Seal

Music Review – July 2024 Although I left this place, part of me remains (this is) very much musical psychogeography ~ Paul Newland I have fond memories of The Lowland Hundred. They provided me with a soundtrack for the middle-teen … Continue reading →

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The Valley

Posted on 23/07/2023 by Bobby Seal

From Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places by Gareth E. Rees (Elliott & Thompson, 2020): Some factories enter local lore in more subtle ways, especially when they are shrouded in mystery and rumour. In 1966, Bobby Seal, an eleven-year-old boy … Continue reading →

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Nettles by Adam Scovell

Posted on 16/05/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – May 2022 I was weak and He was strong. I was shy and He was confident. I was afraid of violence, whereas He thrived on it. Yet, He would die, and I would kill Him. I read … Continue reading →

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Shalimar by Davina Quinlivan

Posted on 01/05/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – May 2022 Years on, the boy will think about the mangoes again when his daughter is all grown up and he is seven decades old and dying of cancer. He will know that his lungs are failing … 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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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 52

Posted on 14/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 51

Posted on 13/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

I came from the sunny valleys And sought for the open sea, For I thought in its gray expanses My peace would come to me. Sara Teasdale – The River   Dee Estuary in Winter ©Bobby Seal

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The Flow of Time – Lockdown, Day 50

Posted on 12/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge. Into the burning Lake their baleful streams Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate, Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, nam’d of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon Whose … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 49

Posted on 11/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

As for the river, it just kept moving, as river do–as rivers do. Under the logs, the body of the young Canadian moved with the river, which jostled him to and fro–to and fro. If, at this moment in time … Continue reading →

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