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The Gathering Fire

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

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The Voyage

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..

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Going Under

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

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The Seven Coats

Principle essay about the mythos of radical change from ‘After Ithaca’ (originally published in Dark Mountain’s Autumn Issue 6).

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Sea Beet, Sugar Beet

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.

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Tesmescal

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

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Letter to Mr. Gurdjieff

On inner work, ceremony and shifting consciousness, set in the Wyre Forest in the depths of the winter solstice (from Dark Mountain Issue 13).

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Outbreak

ISignature essay that initiated a series of posts on life under lockdown at the start of the pandemic in 2020., A myth of regeneration that might make sense of our predicament.

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Sheaf

Introduction to the first edition of ‘Sheaf’, co produced with Hodmeod in 2021

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