My editorial for Dark Mountain’s Issue 28 on uncivilised art, with images by Kyle Scheurmann
Our Autumn 2024 issue is a full-colour exploration of the world’s oceans in an era of collapse – in narrative, verse, art and photography.
The autumn 2023 full colour edition is an ensemble exploration of the eight ceremonial fires of the year, celebrated in practices, stories, poetry and artwork.
Part memoir, part essay, part travelogue, a real-life journey of descent in a world on the tip of crisis.
Essay written for the Fire volume of the Centre for Human Ecology’s Elementals series. On the technology of the eight ceremonial fires of the year, as explored in the Dark Mountain year-long creative workshop We Walk Though the Fire
My introduction to the just published Dark Mountain: Issue 26 - Dark Ocean, that begins in a quiet harbour in the isle of Lewis on the edge of the Atlantic..
My introduction for the Autumn Equinox; Mythos and Mycelium section of the new Dark Mountain issue Eight Fires. With section title by Candace Jensen.
Principle essay about the mythos of radical change from ‘After Ithaca’ (originally published in Dark Mountain’s Autumn Issue 6).
Essay written for the new Dark Mountain issue: Dark Kitchen about the mythic bargain between the wild and arable lands, and the consequences of our forgetting it in a sugar-coated modern world.
Finding the words when the story is over
Article written for Writers Rebel after speaking at their action in Tufton Street during the 2020 Extinction Rebellion in London
An article for Noema magazine that became the basis of the Schumacher course When the Mountain Speaks with Us exploring how we may reweave our place back into the fabric of a sentient Earth.
First chapter of my book ‘52 Flowers That Shook My World – A Radical Return to Earth’.
A mythic conversation with the storyteller and mythologist Martin Shaw
Introductory essay to Dark Kitchen series, now the current Dark Mountain issue, prepping for a spring serving.
Essay about the practice of contemplative activism in times of lockdown. Published by Life Itself.
On inner work, ceremony and shifting consciousness, set in the Wyre Forest in the depths of the winter solstice (from Dark Mountain Issue 13).
Sally O’Reilly asks some great questions on the publication of ‘After Ithaca’
Interview with dissent baker Vanessa Kimbell for Sheaf; Harvest 2022
An op-ed for New York Times from the London streets where the second Extinction Rebellion was taking the stage
A fugitive Interview with philosopher and writer Bayo Akomafe
