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psychogeographicreview.com writing on the margins
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Woolf at the Door 2: Mrs Dallowayâs Inner Flâneur
In Virginia Woolfâs Mrs Dalloway Peter Walsh is the most obvious flâneur character; he is able to wander the streets of London with an abandon even the patrician Clarissa Dalloway cannot manâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/woolf-at-the-door-2-mrs-dalloways-inner-flneur/
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Woolf at the Door 1: The City and Modernism
(Cities were) more than accidental meeting places and crossing points. They were generative environments of the new arts, focal points of intellectual community, indeed of intellectual conflict andâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/woolf-at-the-door-the-city-and-modernism/
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The City, Modernism and the Flâneuse
The passing of the historical figure paved the way for the resurrection of the flâneur as a methodological persona, adopted in order to pursue the exploration of the city. Stripped to its baâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/theres-a-thousand-things-i-want-to-say-to-you-the-city-modernism-and-the-flneuse/
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Towers of Flint
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Towers of Flint
That from this castleâs tatterâd battlements      Our fair appointments may be well perused.      Methinks King Richard and myself should meet      With no lessâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/towers-of-flint/
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Review round up: Eliza Henry Jones & Peter James
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Review round up: Eliza Henry Jones & Peter James : BookerTalk
Time for another batch of short reviews. The two novels Iâm reviewing in this post contain elements such as folklore, witches, fantasy and ghosts for example, that seldom feature in my reading. If I d...
https://bookertalk.com/review-round-up-eliza-henry-jones-peter-james/
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Two great music reads â Chris Dalla Riva â âUncharted Territoryâ and Rob Miller â âThe Hours are Long but the Pay is Lowâ
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Ian Marchant obituary
Writer, performer and broadcaster with a talent for being interested in everything and a particular fascination with British counterculture
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/24/ian-marchant-obituary
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas â "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" â by me for
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Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/edge-of-darkness-review/
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Three questions for you: 1. What was the first sci-fi drama aired on BBC television? 2. In what year was it broadcast? 3. From what language was the script translated into English? Answers here:
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#BBC
#Sci-fi
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Rossumâs Universal Robots by Karel Äapek (1920) - new blog post
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Rossumâs Universal Robots by Karel Äapek (1920)
Rossumâs Universal Robots is a play written by the Czech dramatist, Karel Äapek, in 1920 and was first performed on stage in 1921. It is known as Rossumovi UniverzĂĄlnĂ Roboti in the original Czech âŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/rossums-universal-robots-by-karel-capek-1920/
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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett â life with a price tag
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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett â life with a price tag : BookerTalk
Anna of the Five Towns was the first of Arnold Bennettâs novels to be set in the pottery towns of Staffordshire. Through six novels published between 1902 and 1918 he gives a realistic picture of life...
https://bookertalk.com/anna-of-the-five-towns-by-arnold-bennett-life-with-a-price-tag/
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245. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney â Backlisted
Dave Haslam and Melanie Williams join us to discuss A Taste of Honey (1958), Shelagh Delaney's first play, written and produced when the author was not yet 20 years old. To describe this as an ...
https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245-a-taste-of-honey-by-shelagh-delaney
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As a mark of respect, here is my piece on Gillian Tindall's seminal work 'The Fields Beneath'. 2/2
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Book of the Month â April 2012 â Gillian Tindall: The Fields Beneath
I found my copy of Gillian Tindallâs The Fields Beneath in a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway one August afternoon last year. Strange to be buying a London book on a visit toâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/book-of-the-month-april-2012-gillian-tindall-the-fields-beneath/
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Very sad to hear of the passing of Gillian Tindall. Her writing was so influential for so many of us. 1/2
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Gillian Tindall obituary
Writer, historian and biographer who wove archaeology, social history, myth and religion into her work
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/15/gillian-tindall-obituary
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Chris Steele-Perkins: Brixton 1973-1975 | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos
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Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space
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gave Lizzy Laurance's "Rocketman" a nice review, here:
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Rocketman by Lizzy Laurance
Through songs I dreamt the stories of the boat, listening to its sounds and its silences. Rocketman is the debut album of London-based sound artist and composer, Lizzy Laurance. To work on her projâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/rocketman-by-lizzy-laurance/
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Chester Man Gets Stoned - new blog post.
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#Chester
#RonChesterman
#RollingStones
#Strawbs
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Chester Man Gets Stoned
Their performance lasted about half an hour and they sung about eight numbers, although because of all the noise the fans were making, and the primitive sound system on stage, you couldnât hear anyâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/chester-man-gets-stoned/
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Chester Man - new blog post about the folk musician and archivist Ron Chesterman
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#FolkMusic
#Chester
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Chester Man
He was a unique man and a great musician. We shared a love of history⌠he could turn a mundane drive through London into a colourful, historical, guided tour. ⌠Even though he had been unwell⌠the âŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/chester-man/
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"Liverpool is always more beautiful in the rain." Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city. An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story, available to stream on True Story now:
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Liverpool Story | Voices on the Landscape | Jeff Young
YouTube video by Shut Out The Light Films
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I'll forgo the ghosts of grand house avenues â all driverless coaches, headless horses in finest tack â for lonely lane phantoms. Narrow paths that refuse space for spirit avoidance, routes where the only way home is shade-troubled. This is my haunted hodology. â
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The Ghost Signs of MontrĂŠal
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The Ghost Signs of MontrĂŠal
I attended the MontrĂŠal World Film Festival while travelling in QuĂŠbec in 2016. I remember it was a slightly chaotic affair and it came as no surprise that the festival, founded in 1977, finally foâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/the-ghost-signs-of-montreal/
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The Ghost Signs of MontrĂŠal - new blog post
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#MontrĂŠal
#QuĂŠbec
#Canada
#GhostSigns
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The Ghost Signs of MontrĂŠal
I attended the MontrĂŠal World Film Festival while travelling in QuĂŠbec in 2016. I remember it was a slightly chaotic affair and it came as no surprise that the festival, founded in 1977, finally foâŚ
https://psychogeographicreview.com/the-ghost-signs-of-montreal/
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Robot Jazz Band
#MalmĂś
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The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.
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The War for the Imagination
I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sap...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-for-the-imagination/
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A couple of ghost signs spotted in
#Bath
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Brilliant, rousing, moving
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. As a Librarian, it also made me cry: the imagination 'that has empathy for the refugee .. the child in Gaza, the prisoner...that can work to grasp the dimensions & impacts of the climate crisis & our eternal inseparability from nature..'
add a skeleton here at some point
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On the blog - one for
#WITMonth
yesterday, Eva Moreda's "Home is Like a Different Time"
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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller â life on the margins
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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller â life on the margins : BookerTalk
Claire Fullerâs Costa award-winning novel was a highly enjoyable companion on my summer road trip around parts of the UK.
https://bookertalk.com/unsettled-ground-by-claire-fuller-life-on-the-margins/
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Some place, unplugged
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Some place, unplugged
My backhanded, somewhat grudging tribute to Bath, from a Bristolian.
https://richlyevocative.net/2025/06/30/some-place-unplugged/
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Flint Country: a stone journey
My new book Flint Country: a stone journey will be published on July 10th. Hereâs a link to the blog post I wrote about it for the publisher, Saraband.
https://eastofelveden.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/flint-country-a-stone-journey/
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One last review for June, posted late last night: Paul Baker's excellent book on the language of Polari, "Fabulosa!"
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I've read all of Paul's books now and can highly recommend them!
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Billy Mills
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Something old for that day that's in it:
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Poster poems: July
Bills Mills: From Wonderland to US independence to the first world war, July has been the poetic vehicle for a marvellous variety of themes â now it's your chance to sing the joys of summer
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/jul/13/poster-poems-july
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How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers and Writers Have Always Known
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How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers and Writers Have Always Known
Image via Diego Sevilla Ruiz A certain Zen proverb goes something like this: 'A five year old can understand it, but an 80 year old cannot do it.' The subject of this riddle-like saying has been descr...
https://www.openculture.com/2015/07/how-walking-fosters-creativity.html
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Another one done for
#20BooksofSummer2025
(in fact I'm reading Book 5 at the moment!) Christopher Somerville's "Walking the Bones of Britain" was a joy to read
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Poem of the week: Flâneur by Hugo Williams
What if God were these days a down-at-heel wanderer whose eternal presence flickered through city streets?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/10/poem-of-the-week-flaneur-by-hugo-williams?CMP=share_btn_url
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The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyerâs *Kreuzigung* (1920)
The sole example of a Bauhaus workshopâs arcane theatrical scoring system, combining colours, words, and complex symbolic notation.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kreuzigung/
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My review of the 50th anniversary issue of Paideuma is now up on Elliptical Movements, in which I mention, among others,
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Paideuma Volume 50: A Review
Paideuma Volume 50, Benjamin Friedlander (editor), Centre for Poetry and Poetics (NPF), 2025, ISSN: 0090-5674, By subscription This 50th anniversary edition of the excellent Paideuma takes the formâŚ
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/paideuma-volume-50-a-review/
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A Love Poem to Libraries
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A Love Poem to Libraries
A love letter to libraries, in the form of a poem. âLibrary Stampsâ by Matt Gilbert
https://richlyevocative.net/2025/05/23/a-love-poem-to-libraries/
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My May 2025 Recent Reading is now live, in which I review these books: Interior, Linda Black, Shearsman Books, Fisher King, Thomas Meyer, Verge Books, Cancer, Tom Raworth, Carcanet,
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#poetry
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Recent Reading May 2025: A Review
Interior, Linda Black, Shearsman Books, 2024, ISBN 9781848619197, ÂŁ12.95 / $20 Fisher King, Thomas Meyer, Verge Books, 2025. ISBN 978-1-7374307-5-9, $21.00 Cancer, Tom Raworth, Carcanet, 2025, ISBNâŚ
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/recent-reading-may-2025-a-review/
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Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land
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Some notes on Desolation Row and The Waste Land
Not intended as a coherent essay, just some interconnected thoughts. For a more coherent discussion of Eliot and Dylan, you could do worse than read the âDylan and the Literary Traditionâ chapter iâŚ
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/some-notes-on-desolation-row-and-the-waste-land/
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New on the blog today, I've written about THE CITY AND THE HOUSE by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Dick Davis). An absorbing, emotionally truthful novel told entirely in letters, charting the complex map of relationships between a group of family and friends. đđ
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The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Dick Davis)
The award-winning Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg has been a major discovery for me over the past six years, largely due to Daunt Booksâ and NYRB Classicsâ sterling work on reissuing her books. (MyâŚ
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/the-city-and-the-house-by-natalia-ginzburg-tr-dick-davis/
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Imprint of a bird strike on the bedroom window. Fortunately, it survived and flew away.... no doubt with a very sore head!
#WoodPigeon
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I've done something a bit different this week on Fabulous Folklore. I traced the route of the Walbrook, one of London's lost rivers as a form of folklore-meets-psychogeography!
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Following the Route of the Walbrook, One of London's Lost Rivers
YouTube video by Icy Sedgwick
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It's recent reading time again
#poetry
#bookreviews
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Recent Reading April 2025: A Review
The Day We Met in Earthly Time, Gary Gautier, 2024, ISBN: â979-8865086048, $10.99 Safe Ground, Rosie Johnston, Mica Press, 2025, ISBN 978-1-869848-40-8, ÂŁ10.00 Tempo, Lucia Coppola, Kelsay Books, 2âŚ
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/recent-reading-april-2025-a-review/
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Review of âa book of soundsâ by Billy Mills
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Review of âa book of soundsâ by Billy Mills
Since reading a book of sounds (Shearsman Books, 2024) Iâve been looking forward to writing this review, for Billy Mills has a unique voice that pushes at the boundaries of verse in new ways as he âŚ
https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/04/19/review-of-a-book-of-sounds-by-billy-mills/
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