Writing
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
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..
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.
The Seven Coats
Principle essay about the mythos of radical change from ‘After Ithaca’ (originally published in Dark Mountain’s Autumn Issue 6).
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.
Fiery Words Under a Police Helicopter
Article written for Writers Rebel after speaking at their action in Tufton Street during the 2020 Extinction Rebellion in London
Relearning the Language of a Lost World
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.
52 Flowers That Shook My World: Chapter 1–Epazote
First chapter of my book ‘52 Flowers That Shook My World – A Radical Return to Earth’.
Uncolonising the Imagination
A mythic conversation with the storyteller and mythologist Martin Shaw
Uncivilising the Table
Introductory essay to Dark Kitchen series, now the current Dark Mountain issue, prepping for a spring serving.
Sitting with the Trouble
Essay about the practice of contemplative activism in times of lockdown. Published by Life Itself.
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).
Interview with Writers Rebel
Sally O’Reilly asks some great questions on the publication of ‘After Ithaca’
Putting the Meadow Back Into Your Loaf
Interview with dissent baker Vanessa Kimbell for Sheaf; Harvest 2022
Extinction Rebellion Is Creating a New Narrative of the Climate Crisis
An op-ed for New York Times from the London streets where the second Extinction Rebellion was taking the stage
When the Bones of our Ancestors Speak to Us
A fugitive Interview with philosopher and writer Bayo Akomafe