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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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Real Dorset by Jon Woolcott

Posted on 02/08/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – August 2023 So it seemed to me that Dorset is ripe for a sort of psychogeography – a literary tradition that in essence is a sensitivity to the meeting point of place and history, finding meaning in … Continue reading →

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The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley

Posted on 14/12/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2022 For such a seemingly innocuous activity, and one which is commonly conducted with the participant largely oblivious to its operation, the act of walking has aquired a surprising degree of cultural significance. This is a … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2022

Posted on 24/11/2022 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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Robinson in Chronostasis by Sam Jenks with Koji Tsukada and Dan Jackson

Posted on 08/06/2022 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – June 2022 My mind settled on one turbulent year in my life in  which I moved home nine times. I wrote about a moment where, standing in a 19th floor council flat in Shepherds Bush, London, I … Continue reading →

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Westering: Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast by Laurence Mitchell

Posted on 07/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 The idea was to drift west, to etch a furrow in the map of England and Wales. My plan was to walk coast to coast across the country with some sort of agenda, to follow … Continue reading →

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Heavy Time: A Psychogeographer’s Pilgrimage by Sonia Overall

Posted on 05/07/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – July 2021 Sonia Overall was born and brought up in Ely, a cathedral city on a rocky island in England’s damp, black-soiled Fen country. A constant presence in her childhood was the river which flowed through the … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 3

Posted on 20/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Continuing our 117-mile walk across Devon, coast to coast, in 2013. Part 1 can be found here and part 2 here. In Medieval times Chagford was a Stannary town, one of four in Devon where locally mined tin could be … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 2

Posted on 17/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Continuing the story of our 117-mile walk across Devon, coast to coast, in 2013. Part 1 can be found here. From our stopping place just north of the River Dart we set out across the moor towards Grimspound and Chagford. … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 1

Posted on 16/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

In May 2013 I took a walk with three friends travelling from Wembury on Devon’s south coast to Lynmouth in the north. Our route took us across Dartmoor and Exmoor on a 117 mile long-distance path known as the Two … Continue reading →

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