Weird Walk: Number Seven

Weird Walk #7

by Weird Walk (Editor)

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).

Genres: Nonfiction, Travel, History

48 pages, Paperback

Reviews

[Kieran Telo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another very solid edition in this series of 'zines which continues to entertain with an eclectic mix of the mysterious, the mythic, and the mundane behind which hides legends. From trees to cheese, a return to dungeon synth, and the marvellous Benjamin Myers on Lindisfarne and St. Cuthbert. (Amazing to think that at the date of publication Cuddy was appearing in hardback but by now Myers has finished another novel, coming out in August 2024.) Minus a star for the very hard-to-read sections: ochre on black is a real eyestrain.

[Eirwen Abberley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A gorgeous, mythical delight of British nature and folklore - thank you very much Millie, I shall treasure her

[Barry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely little eclectic zine from the Weird Walk folk. I'm kind of getting less interested in them as they build their brand and seem to be selling all sorts these days but I still hope they do well. This short zine is all very readable with nothing except perhaps the piece on the folklore of cheese that didn't grab my attention.

I quite liked Benjamin Myers piece on the literary influence of 'Holy Island' Lindisfarne and how he set one of his novels around there about St. Cuthbert. There is an interview with a Dungeon Synth label which touches on how nature shapes the music. A short piece on the folklore of trees is very good too.

My favourite piece is by Alice Lowe (I really enjoyed the Prevenge film she was in) as she goes back to walk the streets of Stroud, retracing her childhood steps touching her parents lives, her grandparents lives, famous artists, the all women Morris troupe Boss Norris (who are everywhere these days) and the life and love and grief of losing her friend. It is beautifully written as it wanders this town both slipping between times, touching on living and oral history. It's impossible not to be moved.

[mickey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was really lovely and I super enjoyed it! Zines forever!

[Helen White · Rating 5 out of 5]

Benjamin Myer's Cuddy, history of trees, Stroud valley and cheeeeese!