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Critical acclaim for this pocket essential guide The word psychogeography has become common coinage; well, at least in London literary circles. Merlin Coverley informs us that the word was first used by the Letterist group (forerunners to the Situationist International), in Paris in the 1950s. But no one seems sure exactly what it means. In the introduction, the author asks, "Are we talking about a predominantly literary movement or a political strategy, a series of new age ideas or a set of avant-garde practices?" [Read more]
- Independent on Sunday
This little book does exactly what an introduction should; it examines, explains, and whets the appetite...It has an extensive bibliography and an index of websites, research into which has been clearly and cogently utilised. It is a short, but valuable, book. [Read more]
- The Telegraph
It would be a fitting tribute to Coverley's unfussy and informative book if it encouraged people in other cities to try psychogeography. [Read more]
- Scotland On Sunday
Highly recommended. [Read more ...]
- The Cauldron
Now Merlin Coverley has written a short guide to psychogeography for beginners. It traces a line from English metrographers such as Daniel Defoe, through Thomas De Quincey and Arthur Machen, right up to Iain Sinclair. It also examines the emergence of the flâneur, and in so doing not only offers thumbnail sketches of some of the writings of Poe and Baudelaire, but suggests that psychogeography is a mode of urban counter-surveillance largely restricted to Paris and London. [Read more]
- New Statesman
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