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

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.

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..

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.

My introduction for the Autumn Equinox; Mythos and Mycelium section of the new Dark Mountain issue Eight Fires. With section title by Candace Jensen.

Part memoir, part essay, part travelogue, a real-life journey of descent in a world on the tip of crisis.

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.

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.

An inquiry into the language of plants. From the Oxford Botanical Gardens to the streets of Mexico City, this is the story of search for a reconnection with nature and human liberation that speaks urgently of the future.

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.

The first edition of ‘Sheaf’, co produced with Hodmeod and the Dark Mountain Project in 2021

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.

‘Extract from a chapter in ‘After Ithaca’, published in Dark Mountain’s ‘requiem’ issue on death, drying and change.

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).