magazine.words.walking #1 (Les Roberts, 2026)

magazine.words.walking is a cartography of words. As a form of poetic intervention it is best thought of as a process rather than finished output. In the first instance, magazine.words.walking can be likened to a found poem inasmuch as the words presented themselves to me as I chanced upon them; my contribution was to establish the parameters by which these words, arranged in this way were marshalled into place. Secondly, magazine.words.walking is raw data from which, by a process of extraction and reassembly, something new and as yet unelicited may emerge. Thirdly, magazine.words.walking is a map, in large-scale, of a rural backroad called Magazine Lane in the Deeside area of Flintshire, North Wales. Interpreted and applied as a set of geo-spatial coordinates, magazine.words.walking is an algorithmically determined textual projection of place. Go to what3words.com and type in any of the three words that make up each line of the found poem/map and you will be taken to a very specific 3m x 3m location. Lastly, magazine.words.walking is a script for a site-specific performance poem: a videographic walking-with-words from the beginning to the end of Magazine Lane.

The video above is the first attempt to walk the W3W of Magazine Lane. The pacing is wrong and the words are not adequately in sync with the locations they relate to. It will take more attempts to get this right.