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The Chalets of Farndon

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  The chalet colony, through which I walked with Anna on that bright morning, was larger and more cheerful than the neighbouring villages.  Nobody needed an expulsion order to move in. ‘Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project’ – … Continue reading

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Underpass Art

Walking along my favourite local route.  An old railway track – post-industrial, abandoned and overgrown, but still indelibly human-made.  Cutting and bridge, a levelled track-bed. And when I dream I dream I can fly. The track passes under a busy … Continue reading

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Bring Me My Bow

  Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes, drongs, snarns, snickets – say the names of paths out loud and they become a poem or rite – holloways, bostles, shutes, driftways, lichways, ridings, halterpaths, cartways, carneys, … Continue reading

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The Riddle of the Sands

  We had an old copy of The Riddle of the Sands in our house when I was a boy.  It seemed to me that we’d had it forever, though the inscription in it told me that it was actually … Continue reading

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Daniel Defoe and Psychogeography

Psychogeographic Review is pleased to publish its first guest post, with Joe Clarke championing Daniel Defoe’s role as an early psychogeographer.  All views expressed as those of Joe Clarke.     Defoe’s contribution to the history of psychogeography is twofold. … Continue reading

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Psychogeography: Taking Back the City

  The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automatically followed in aimless strolls … Continue reading

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Beating the Bounds: A Dérive Around the 1857 Boundaries of Brew Town

Dewdrop had called it a circumnavigation, but the reverence with which he handles the map this morning as he shows me our route suggests it’s something more akin to a pilgrimage for him.  When he rang me last week he … Continue reading

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