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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2024

Posted on 01/12/2024 by Bobby Seal

The city is a map of stories, and in them we are both the inhabitants and the explorers. Zadie Smith (from NW) At Psychogeographic Review I write about the books, poems, maps, photographs, paintings, films and music that help us to … Continue reading →

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Final Approach by Mark Blackburn

Posted on 31/01/2024 by Bobby Seal

Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. Final Approach is a long way from being the type of book I would normally read and enjoy. I do not share Mark Blackburn’s twin obsessions … Continue reading →

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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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Gathering of the Tribe: Landscape by Mark Goodall

Posted on 13/01/2023 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – January 2023 … a personal selection dredged from years of seeking out and listening to obscure and difficult music; music that is profound but which was made for reasons which the creators and performer are often at … 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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Psychogeographic Review’s Books of the Year, 2021

Posted on 11/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

This year’s selection, presented in no particular order: Notes From an Island by Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä                                              … Continue reading →

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Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay by Jeff Young

Posted on 02/12/2021 by Bobby Seal

Book Review – December 2021 I go to the pubs where Allen Ginsberg drank with Adrian Henri in May 1965 when he declared Liverpool to be ‘at the present moment, the centre of consciousness of the human universe’. I walk … 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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December 2018 Reviews

Posted on 13/12/2018 by Bobby Seal

All Among the Barley – Melissa Harrison (Bloomsbury, 2018) This is Melissa Harrison’s third novel. With All Among the Barley and its two predecessors, Clay and At Hawthorn Time, she is establishing herself as one of the country’s foremost nature … Continue reading →

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November 2018 Reviews

Posted on 20/11/2018 by Bobby Seal

Books Crudo – Olivia Laing (Picador, 2018) Kathy Acker did not die in 1997. She, or someone very much like her, lives on to witness the recent rise of right-leaning populism in Europe and the United States and, when we … Continue reading →

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