Tag Archives: modernism

Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair

Posted on 20/04/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – April 2022 She knew now what had happened to her. She was afraid of Harding Powell; and it was her fear that had cried to her to go, to get away from him. The awful thing was … Continue reading →

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May Sinclair at Gresford

Posted on 30/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Either the operation or the pain, going on and on, stabbing with sharper and sharper knives; cutting in deeper; all their care, the antiseptics, the restoratives, dragging it out, giving it more time to torture her. May Sinclair – Life … Continue reading →

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The City, Modernism and the Flâneuse

Posted on 20/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

  The passing of the historical figure paved the way for the resurrection of the flâneur as a methodological persona, adopted in order to pursue the exploration of the city. Stripped to its basic characteristics and used as a modus … 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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‘The Lodger’ by Louisa Treger

Posted on 23/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

Ten minutes into the conversation I realise that the writer my MA supervisor is talking about is the same one I discovered for myself some months before, except she gives Walter Benjamin’s name the full Germanic pronunciation and I realise … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – December 2014

Posted on 05/12/2014 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Liz Berry – ‘Black Country’ (2014) Wench, yowm the colour of ower town: concrete, steel, oily rainbow of the cut. Liz Berry’s poems are intelligent, articulate and profound. They are also, proudly, … Continue reading →

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Dorothy Richardson’s ‘The Tunnel’: Feminism and Flânerie in Bloomsbury

Posted on 07/02/2014 by Bobby Seal

  The idea of the flâneur was born in Paris and was first referred to by Baudelaire.  However, London writers have long used the device of the casual wanderer of the capital’s streets, the loiterer, the observer, as a means … Continue reading →

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Looking for May

Posted on 29/11/2013 by Bobby Seal

Mary Amelia St. Clair, known as May Sinclair, was born in Rock Ferry, Wirral in 1863.  Her family lived in a house called Thorncote in the prosperous Rock Park suburb and she spent the first seven years of her life … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – August 2013

Posted on 02/08/2013 by Bobby Seal

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: ‘Complete Poems’ – Walt Whitman Whitman is often described as the father of American poetry and, indeed, his influence can be traced right through to the beat poets of the 1950s.  … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – June 2013

Posted on 01/06/2013 by Bobby Seal

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:      ‘Cullodon’ – John Prebble Written in 1961 but still the definitive account of the Battle of Culloden.  Prebble sets the battle in its social context and makes liberal use … Continue reading →

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