Weird Walk
It started as friends walking and will no doubt continue as such. For us, walking is an active engagement with the British landscape and its lore.
Weird Walk zine is your signpost… keep walking weird.
Website - https://www.weirdwalk.co.uk/
Issue 1- Beltane 2019
40 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality recycled stock
Contains magick
What is Weird Walk? It started as friends walking and will no doubt continue as such. For us, walking is an active engagement with the British landscape and its lore.
Amongst other things, come with us to uncover some medieval graffiti, have a chat with writer/ recording artist Justin Hopper, take a trip around Avebury’s Neolithic wonderland, absorb some blackened dungeon synth, and meet a Tudor weird walking inspiration.
£5.50
Issue 2 - Samhain 2019
Bigger, weirder...
48 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality recycled stock
May summon spirits
As the harvest season ends and we stagger towards winter, the ghostly glimmer of other worlds hovers in our imagination. In this issue we will be channelling Samhain, the gateway to the darker half of the year, poised between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. It is in this spirit that we explore nature’s bounty alongside forager Adele Nozedar and celebrate an uplifting, eclectic take on folk dance with Boss Morris.
We remember a time when Doctor Who went folk horror in a Wiltshire village, while our new Readers’ Vibes section brings some location-specific spookiness to the party. Elsewhere, Justin Hopper discovers uncanny vibes within rural perfection, and Benjamin Myers tells of strange goings-on in Calderdale.
£5.50
Issue 3 - Midsummer 2020
Rise up like the sun...
48 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality recycled stock
A midsummer night's zine
In this issue we dive, like a drunken Norse king, headfirst into boozelore to pick out the legends and customs concealed in your glass. Elsewhere, strong vibes abound as we get out to some of this land’s most resonant spots: the return of Dolmania takes us down the road to the Devil’s Den, while new feature High Horses hikes out to Uffington.
We also explore the ritual renaissance with artist Ben Edge, and the undisputed king of 'Northern Gothic' Andrew Michael Hurley joins us to discuss his work and the landscape and folklore therein.
The solstice is upon us, the perfect time to be dreaming of rambles...
£5.50
Issue 4 - Imbolc 2021
48 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality recycled stock
Abundant with vibes
The wheel turns and we find ourselves halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Signs of new life emerge, the earth awakens, a new issue of Weird Walk pokes through the fecund mulch…
The question of land rights, and who owns the British countryside, has dangled over these islands for centuries. Nick Hayes addresses free access to open spaces directly in this issue’s interview, while Zakia Sewell speaks of discovering a different kind of Britain, the Albion that she has navigated on her excellent BBC radio shows.
Elsewhere Stewart Lee finds his own connection with the landscape on a walk from Lamorna, uniting passions for visionary artists and prehistoric monuments and, in contrast to country acres parcelled away on grand estates, we take a look at the edgelands, those unloved, unruly spaces and the music that conjures them.
May the wand of Saint Brigid bless your vegetation…
£5.50
Issue 5 - Samhain 2021
48 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality recycled stock
We hope this little treat (or trick?) finds you well…
The nights are drawing in and stories are told around the fire…
At this time of year, as thoughts turn to winter, stories would have been especially important to our ancestors. It is in sympathy with this telling of tales that we offer you issue five of our irregular periodical. We see the shadowy reverse of the British countryside revealed for younger readers in our exploration of folk horror in children’s literature, while Stewart Lee digs into the travels and tales of the mysterious writer Blanche E. Ward. Elsewhere, ritual animal disguise, water worship and the gothic tones of the pipe organ spin their own cultural narratives.
£5.50
Issue 6 - Winter 2022/23
48 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality recycled stock
Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand'ring
So fair to be seen.
Grab a mulled cider and join us as we honour the winter solstice, bid farewell to the old year and welcome in the new with the sixth issue of our zine.
Wander through the magical woodland of Savernake Forest, and explore Lundy, an island wreathed in myth. Come on a doom (metal) stroll with Archer Sanderson, and witness the collision of contemporary art and ancient megaliths with Jeremy Deller, a true weird walking inspiration if ever there was one.
Winter is upon us… may your hearth be warm and your Yule log bright.
£5.50
Magic Circle
28 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality recycled stock
Potent semiconductor of winter solstice vibes
Magic Circle contains photos from two rolls of Kodak Portra 200 film taken at sunrise within the inner circle of Stonehenge, six days before the winter solstice of 2018 and on the morning of the winter solstice of 2019. Some experts believe the rituals connected to the winter solstice to be of greater significance to the Neolithic people of Stonehenge than the summer, as it marked the time after which longer, brighter and more fecund days would return.
£4.50
Ritual
Welcome fools....to a journal of Wanderings and Wonderings from glorious Summerisle
40 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality PEFC certified recycled stock
Potent semiconductor of summer solstice vibes
The solstice is upon us, the perfect time to be dreaming of rambles on remote Scottish isles...
Grab an apple and join us as we honour the greatest film ever made, wander through the magical landscape of Lord Summerisle's pagan backwater, and explore an island wreathed in myth. Come on a stroll to the stone circle of ancient megaliths, deconstruct the Islander's folk customs or solve the fiendish crossword, just don't keep the Wicker Man waiting!
£6
Leyline
“Ancient sites are connected by dead straight lines across this land, and each alignment holds the potential for enchantment…”
32 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality PEFC certified recycled stock
Presenting Leyline a 32 page Earth energies primer for the curious wanderer, with a particular focus on the St Michael line – John Michell's ‘dragon path’ – running through the south west of England, intersecting sacred sites at Avebury, Glastonbury, Burrow Mump, Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, and beyond.
£5.50
Weird Walk - The Book
An epic folkloric guide to rambling, re-enchanting the landscape, and reconnecting with nature.
288 pages of brand new material (not in the zine!), plus a foreword by Stewart Lee.
In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain, engaging with the traces of the deep past and following the wheel of the year as it turns, we can find a pathway that reconnects us to our shared folklore, to the seasons and to nature, setting a course towards optimism, re-enchantment and brighter futures.
SPRING Watch the equinox sunrise light up the floating capstone of Pentre Ifan and connect with the Cailleach at the shrine of Tigh nam Bodach in the remote Highlands
SUMMER Feel the resonance of ancient raves and rituals in the stone circles of southwest England’s Stanton Drew, Avebury and the Hurlers, and follow the Morris sides around the pubs of Thaxted
AUTUMN Bring in the harvest with the old gods at Coldrum Long Barrow, and brave the ghosts on misty Blakeney Point
WINTER Make merry at the Chepstow wassail, and listen out for the sunken church bells of the lost medieval city of Dunwich
£19.99
Issue 7 - Winter 23/24
48 page A5 zine
Printed on high quality PEFC certified recycled stock
With the sun at its lowest ebb, and the night stretching to its longest duration of the year, we offer up Weird Walk Issue Seven as a symbol of the continuing cycle of rot and renewal, death and new life.
Taking inspiration from the woodland, author Nadia Attia explores the folklore surrounding some of Britain’s iconic tree species, while leafy associations abound as we reflect upon the Hastings Jack in the Green festival, and the suitably named Verdant Wisdom collective walk us through a rural take on dungeon synth music. Elsewhere two mavens of weird walking, Alice Lowe and Benjamin Myers, lead separate quests in two very different locations, each filled with magick and memory.
And if trees can emotionally connect us to the landscape, then so can the old stone monuments that so entrance us; in this issue, we explore phenomenological approaches to ancient sites (and, also, cheese).
£6