What I Love About...MAPS!

 

This zine is for anyone interested in cartography and psychogeography, or those who might even be new to maps. While it is research-based it is written in layman's terms. This is the first full-colour zine in the series.

The zine is A5 size and includes text and coloured maps and is available in both hard copy and digital format. The cover is coloured card (colour not specified). The contents include the following: historical maps, maps in popular culture and vernacular mapping. The zine also includes work by the author: a map and an original (first time published) poem on maps. Here is the contents page:

Price:

The zine is £4.90 and postage for UK comes under standard letter. Please enquire for international postage.

The digital copy of the zine is £2.50 and will be provided via an email account.

Please note: This is a handmade zine and, by definition, will consequently have imperfections.

How to write a . . . MANIFESTO!

 

This is the latest zine from the Aca-Zine series, which is designed to introduce academic thought and analysis, in an accessible way, to anyone interested in the subject matter of the zine.

The zine is A5 size, includes text and images and is in black and white, for the hard copy, and colour for the digital version. The cover is coloured card (colour not specified). Below is further information on the author.

This zine does what it says. Based on the research and analysis of two famous historical manifestos, a modern day manifesto and providing an example created by the author, it will show you how to create your own manifesto on whatever subject. Here is the contents page:

Price:

The zine is £3.90 and postage for UK comes under standard letter. Please enquire for international postage.

The digital copy of the zine is £2.50 and will be provided via an email account.

Please note: This is a handmade zine and, by definition, will consequently have imperfections.

Hunstanton: Wish You Were Here!

My latest zine is out. It's a psychogeography of the seaside town Hunstanton, in Norfolk. Here's the text from the prologue: 

I know this is a cliché, but this booklet is a kind of love letter to Hunstanton: one that is deeply influenced by both my childhood (being a progeny of King’s Lynn) and the nostalgia of my late teens and early twenties, when me and my peer group used to socialise here. This is way before Hunstanton became the ‘posh’ seaside town it now is. This text is both a celebration and lament. How can it be both, you may well ask. I left King’s Lynn, for London, in 1987 and I returned to Hunstanton in 2022 due to an unexpected change in my personal circumstances. This is the story of that journey: from the standpoint of a person whose perspective has changed. Moreover, also the space that is being explored has changed…

 

Description and Price:

The A5 hard copy zine is in black and white with photos of Hunstanton and other related images. It also includes some academic analysis. The cover is made of yellow card and the zine is photocopied and professionally trimmed and stapled, retailing at £5.50 plus postage (UK is standard letter). The appendix includes a map, a collage and a poem.

A digital colour copy is now also available at £4.00 and can be provided via email.

Note: This is a Limited Edition hard copy run and consists of a run of only 25. No more will be printed when these have all gone.

What I Love About . . . Cats

 

My new zine is out. It's about - yes, you can see by the title - all the things I love about cats (well not all, as there isn't a book big enough for that!).

The A5 zine has 13 black and white pages of text with photos of cats, some of whom I know in person! It also includes researched facts and figures about cats. The cover is made of coloured card (colour not specified) and the zine is hand trimmed and stapled. Please note: this is a hand produced zine and, by definition, consequently has its imperfections.

Price: 

• First edition hard copy of zine (15 pages) retails at £3.50 (there are only a couple left).
• The expanded second edition hard copy of the zine (19 pages) retails at £3.90.
• Postage for UK comes under standard letter. Please enquire for international postage.
• There is now a colour version in digital form and that retails at £2.50 and is available via email.

Please note: This is a handmade zine and, by definition, will consequently have imperfections.

Schizocartography of a Seaside

The above is a recent 'map' of mine published by Colossive Press. It is for a series entitled 'Colossive Cartographies'. They are foldable maps in an A5 size. Below are some more images of my own version. You can buy it here (current price £2.00).

Walking Inside Out - Introduction

Introduction:A Wander through the Scene of British Urban Walking

by Tina Richardson

WHAT IS PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY?

Get a map of your local area and spread it out on the floor. Study the map, imagine the terrain, find your preferred route – perhaps a bridleway or a towpath – and trace it on the map. Grab your coat off the hook in the hallway and put on your sturdy shoes. Leave the house and dump the map in the wheelie bin. Forget the map. Go to the nearest bus stop and get on the first bus that comes along. Get off when you feel you are far enough away from home that the area is unfamiliar. Begin your walk here.

Psychogeography does not have to be complicated. Anyone can do it. You do not need a map, Gor-Tex, a rucksack or a companion. All you need is a curious nature and a comfortable pair of shoes. There are no rules to doing psychogeography - this is its beauty. However, it is this that makes it hard to pin down in any formalised way. It is also this ‘unruly’ character (disruptive, unsystematic, random) that makes for much discussion about its meaning and purpose - today more than at any other time.

This volume does not pretend to have a definitive answer to what psychogeography is, but it does propose to open up the space that can be defined as psychogeography, providing examples and encouraging debate. In his introduction to Psychogeography (2006) Merlin Coverley 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?” and goes on to say that it is all the above (2006, 9-10). In just a couple of sentences we have opened up a can of nebulous worms on the ambulatory behemoth that psychogeography (or urban walking) is. What this selected volume of essays does is present the state of play as it is for psychogeography in the UK in the 21st century...

Click here to download a pdf of the introduction.