Tag Archives: Poetry

Why I Am Not a Painter

Posted on 05/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

  Why I Am Not a Painter is one of my favourite Frank O’Hara poems.  He wrote it after a series of visits to his friend Michael Goldberg, the American abstract expressionist painter.  Like many have done so before and since O’Hara … Continue reading →

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October Sky

Posted on 01/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

October sky grey above – Sun glow claws at southern edge. Daggers of rain cold, vindictive. Leaf blown, withered. Slick wet paving mirrors sky. Grey on grey.  

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Poem No. 4

Posted on 16/09/2015 by Bobby Seal

    Rooted – in nurturing soil, a growth inarticulate in its proliferation Anorexic pruning – a painful birth revealing flowers of such unexpected beauty     Image: Culloden, August 2010

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – September 2015

Posted on 25/08/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Iain Sinclair – London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line (2015) These days Sinclair writes like a man  aware that he is running out of time: words tumble out of … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – March 2015

Posted on 26/02/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Liz Lefroy – ‘Mending the Ordinary’ (2014) Mending the Ordinary is Liz Lefroy’s third collection and, whilst the poems in this pamphlet demonstrate the growing depth and maturity of her work, they … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – February 2015

Posted on 29/01/2015 by Bobby Seal

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Nan Shepherd – ‘In the Cairngorms’ (1934) Newly republished and with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane, this is the sole collection of poems by Scottish modernist writer, Nan Shepherd.  Shepherd walked in the Cairngorms whenever … Continue reading →

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Stream of Consciousness

Posted on 19/10/2014 by Bobby Seal

The Poem Hidden Inside One Year   To edit is to deconstruct. Put every word under the spotlight and make it account for itself There is a point where music, writing and visual art coalesce.  Perhaps this coalescence reached its … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – September 2014

Posted on 03/09/2014 by Bobby Seal

  This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading: Gruff Rhys – ‘American Interior’ (2014) American Interior is a book (and also a film and an album) by Gruff Rhys, the creative force behind Super Furry Animals.  The project arose … Continue reading →

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Emily Dickinson: Intoxicated by Life

Posted on 12/05/2014 by Bobby Seal

  I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol! Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of … Continue reading →

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On Becoming a Fish

Posted on 06/02/2014 by Bobby Seal

  “Change,” he always said, “happens at the edge, the frontline, tideline, the thick line that sparks a fight and then, perhaps, a kiss. This is where we know who we are” he said, “by seeing who we are not”. … Continue reading →

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