Tag Archives: psychogeography

The Flow of Time: An Important Message

Posted on 23/03/2020 by Bobby Seal

My name is Bobby Seal and this has been my blog for over eight years. I use psychogeography as a tool to interrogate urban and rural landscapes and a range of artistic responses to such places. I work from home … Continue reading →

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A Year in Books

Posted on 13/01/2020 by Bobby Seal

New books that Psychogeographic Review was reading in 2019:   Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jaqueline Riding       Palaces for the People: How to Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg   … 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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Of Ice and Fire: January 2019 Book Reviews

Posted on 22/01/2019 by Bobby Seal

The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate – Nancy Campbell (Scribner UK, 2018) Nancy Campbell is a poet and a printmaker. She ascribes her fascination with the world’s icy places to the snow globe she had as a … Continue reading →

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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year

Posted on 20/12/2018 by Bobby Seal

Essex, the Fens, Suffolk, Sussex and London; 2018 has been a good year for books in which the landscape, be it the countryside or city streets, plays a prominent role. There is no such thing as psychogeographic fiction. However, there … Continue reading →

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Sulphur – an Interview with Christopher Ian Smith

Posted on 03/02/2017 by Bobby Seal

Sulphur is a new short film by Christopher Ian Smith.  It is a macabre experiment across documentary and horror.  Sulphur dives head first into the folk traditions and ceremonial weirdness of bonfire night in Lewes, Sussex, an annual event of … Continue reading →

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The City of Dreadful Night

Posted on 06/11/2015 by Bobby Seal

James Thomson was a Scottish-born poet, atheist and anarchist. He struggled with depression, insomnia and alcohol-abuse throughout his short life and his work frequently reflected the bleakness and despair of his life’s experiences. Thomson wrote The Doom of the City … 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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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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STEPZ: Above Us Only Sky

Posted on 16/06/2015 by Bobby Seal

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination A few years ago, just after the birth of my youngest daughter, … Continue reading →

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