Category: magazines

I only found out about this short-run magazine the other day, when issue 2 was announced. So I ordered one immediately. Looks like they still have copies left via marshlore.com.

Issue 2 of MARSHLORE – The new ZINE created by East Anglian Musician Laura Cannell and her Artist/Curator sister Sarah Cannell. A Miscellany of stories, original artwork, folklore, and more. Inspired by the East Anglian Marshes, ancient folklore and living traditions.

A mix of thoroughly researched folklore and thoroughly made up stories.
Issue 2 features words from the cellist Lori Goldston (Earth/Nirvana), the writer/comedian Stewart Lee, and many other artists, musicians and writers.

Essex, where I live, is sort of, barely, East Anglia, depending on who you ask and probably what your own attitude is. Once upon a time it was all Guthrum Kingdom, and I grew up in a village founded as a Danelaw settlement, and I’ve always thought of myself as generally East Anglian. Ipswich were my team as a kid. Anyway. Looking forward to this.

It is my great pleasure to spend ten pounds a year on this wonderful quarterly publication. Learn more at their website.

Arrived just now. It’s not on the store yet, but it will be soon, and in the meantime there’s all the other issues and the brilliant podcast.

These just arrived from the editor, via contributor Cate Winter, and I’m looking forward to getting into these while the nights are still cold. Their website shop is at this link here.

Hellebore is a poisonous plant that has the power of altering perception, and it’s thought to be one of the main ingredients for the witches’ flying ointment. Associated with the water element, it is known for opening up portals to the Underworld and the subconscious.

Founded in 2019 by writer and editor Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, with art direction by Nathaniel Hébert, HELLEBORE is a small press devoted to British folk horror and the occult. As well as the magazine of the same name, HELLEBORE has published a travel guide (The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain) and a card game (The Magical Card Battle of Britain). 

NEURAL 71 looks to have some great interviews in it: Superflux and Jana Winderen should be worth the price of admission all on their own, and the reviews section is always full of stuff I’ve never heard of and would never otherwise have found out about.

THE MODERNIST always has great covers.

In this issue, we’re looking at all things grand, large, colossal and epic; literally, metaphorically and otherwise.

John Grindrod celebrates the much maligned Millennium Dome. While its initial ambition was perhaps never reached, it could now be said that the world’s ninth biggest building stands today as a monument to a more optimistic time in Britain’s recent past. Meanwhile, Gillian Darley looks at the work of master factory builders Albert Kahn Associates. Not only did they change the physical landscape with their enormous industrial buildings, they also helped shape global economics and geo-politics.

It is said that there is a place for everything and everything in its place.

Of course, there is always a place for chaos, but here at the modernist we do think that there should be some order to proceedings. Was it not Le Corbusier himself that claimed, “to create architecture is to put in order”?

So, with this issue, we are exploring the idea of LAYOUT and how modernism has sought – with varying degrees of success – to bring clarity and coherence to our lives via the use of good design and no small amount of ‘rules’.

Now with colour covers, apparently. That’s my evening sorted. Learn more at northernearth.co.uk. It is incredibly cheap for the amount of value inside every issue.

I still subscribe to a few small magazines. Only the ones I consider essential. Like NORTHERN EARTH. It is always a good day when a new issue arrives.

Our magazine has been running since 1979, and is now the world’s oldest earth mysteries journal! We have attempted to maintain throughout a tradition of free-thinking, approaching archaeology, folklore and the many constituent strands of earth mysteries without a specific axe to grind – no ideologies or beliefs other than a general political radicalism influence our content. In these days of ‘new age’, pagan, factional and other belief-centred publications, our approach might seem unusual.

Find out more, and examine the staggeringly cheap subscription, at their website.

Just in time for Friday evening reading with the earbuds in: the new issue of THE MODERNIST, which you can learn about and look inside at this link here should you be interested. I love this magazine, and particularly enjoy how hard they’ve worked to keep it fresh and surprising over the years.