Two years ago an Alien landed in Nailsworth, unnoticed by the Stroud Valleys folk. Since its arrival after fifty years temporarily rooted on Planet Essex, this strange being has immersed itself in the Gloucestershire soil, attempting to make sense of i...

Words of the day were obvs bound to be Metaphor, Palimpsest, Serendipitous, Inscription and Superscription, On such a walk as this; A train ride to Stonehouse And then a walk through what once was Standish Hospital, Now a Dystopian Derek Jarmane...

STROUD RADICAL HISTORY ALTERNATIVE HERITAGE WALK A circular walk from Stonehouse Station to Standish, Haresfield, Ring Hill, Randwick Woods and back to Stonehouse. Ancient Barrows, mediaeval churches, Romano-British farmsteads, a moated stronghol...

The Inprint shop and building in the High Street in Stroud, Resembles nothing so much as something out of Dickens, An Old Curiosity Shop, Defying straight lines of logic: A seeming hexagonal structure, With Wemmick-like turrets at the top; The sh...

Well that was a walk, that was, For we explored boundaries, Spatial, temporal, linguistic, social, spiritual, rational, By exploring Jon Seagrave’s Stroud map of the subjective, Of the emotional and the affective, Rather than the conventional topo...

The below has been sent to the Walking Artists Network. Good to see us headlining above London! 'Here are more details about the events across the UK currently planned for Terminalia: Festival of Psychogeography 2018 held on Friday Feb 23rd 2018 ...

STROUD COUNTER-HERITAGE WEEKEND FEBRUARY 3rd-4th The Centre for Science and Art, Lansdowne, Stroud SATURDAY 10am Doors open The following events are timetabled, but there are events running throughout the day. Scroll down until you see the he...

There, on the one hand, St. Pancras and Paris; And there, on the other, Kings Cross: Gateway to the LNER, And night mails crossing the border, And gateway to a world we have lost: Pit heads and winding gear, tram-roads and collieries, And curling...

On Saturday 7th October, I led a walk as part of the Love Arts Festival 2017 programme. The ‘Art, Access and Urban Walking’ grew out of the walk I led as part of Jane’s Walk Leeds in May. The idea was to create conversation around acc...

Temple Meads via Swindon, 14 quid? Temple Meads via Gloucester, only 7? Well, that meant a ride through the warehouse edgelands, And the buddleia rusting railway lines to Gloucester (‘YES MATE’, as it said under the bridge), But there was time eno...

Beneath the pavement, the beach! For here we have a line of houses called Streamside, And up there, beyond the Fountain pub, Lies Springfield Road and a plethora Of constant, subterranean springs, Springs! The genius loci of Stroud … We walked down La...

San Francisco based artist Astrid Kaemmerling kicks off The Walk Discourse, a series of walkshops, in and around the San Francisco bay area, on September 9, Dérive Day 2017, by hosting a shared dérive as part of Dérive Day.  The Walk Discourse wil...

On 9 September 2017, explore your city with others around the world through randomly generated and synchronised tasks that are simultaneously drawn whether you’re in Rio or Rome, Kampala or Kuala Lumpur. After too long a hiatus, Dérive Day is back on S...