Having used a fairly recent (1992) I-Spy book as the springboard for a flight of fancy, I thought it would be fun to get one of the older ones and see what differences there might be. I-Spy on the Pavement came out in 1961, the year I was born, so that’s the one I decided [...]
Posts Tagged ‘psychogeography’
I-Spy on the Pavement
Posted in References and signposts, tagged brighton, clock tower, I-Spy, psychogeography, virgin on July 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Conan in Bedfordshire
Posted in sidetrips, tagged atlantis, ballard, conan, encore, milton keynes, mk, moorcock, psychogeography, ramada, wetherspoons on July 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The last two days of walking have been triangulated against some kind of literature. The next will be no exception, as I am heading for Leighton Buzzard where, back in about 1974, I bought a book that has retained great meaning for me over the years – Conan of Cimmeria. This paperback, which I have [...]
Don’t Fence Me In: Banbury to Brackley
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, banbury, brackley, flora thompson, gary dobbs, Hinton-in-the-Hedges, jack martin, john clare, kings sutton, larkrise, pianhas, psychogeography, tarnished star, tom hark on July 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Back to doing an early morning flit to start the walk; first train out of Ormskirk at 5.50, feeling strangely fragile after a headlong week of work and some sad passings. Seeking cheerful energy, I played a song I remembered as a fun summer tune, the Piranhas’ version of Tom Hark – but in my [...]
Quiet Man Bucks Reality
Posted in References and signposts, tagged #hopenothate, brighton, buckinghamshire, buckinghamshire footpaths, bucks, mere england, peel, psychogeography on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The next legs of the journey will take me through Buckinghamshire. This being the case, I have picked up a guidebook of sorts: Buckinghamshire Footpaths, by J.H.B. Peel, found in Wigtown (‘Scotland’s book town’) while on holiday. Buckinghamshire Footpaths was published in 1949, when a Britain battered by war was re-creating itself, and part [...]
I-Spy psychogeography: holiday reading
Posted in References and signposts, tagged bibendum, festival of britain, gehazi, glentrool, Gordon McGregor, I-Spy, michelin, product, Product magazine, psychogeography on June 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Psychogeography, the practice of creating new visions of the urban environment through mindful walking, is everywhere these days. Pick up a comic book for instance – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1910 – and there, alongside A. J. Raffles, Orlando, MacHeath and Ishmael, is Iain Sinclair, ‘the country’s leading proponent of “psychogeography”‘, in the [...]
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What I’m doing now- Mister_Roy: @ushiec Was struggling to interpret yr tweet as response to Shirley Bassey post! HS and Earhart should be excellent.
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