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The Uneasy Chair
'How do you prepare yourself to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning?'– Annie Dillard The Writing LifeThe sea glitters like a mirror, the hedgerows are bursting into flower, the garden...
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Divesting for Beginners
This summer I have taken some time 'off' to focus on two writing projects. One is a book about the mythos of return in times of collapse. The other is a performance/ presentation called 'Divesting for...
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Under the Volcano
Last week the new Dark Mountain collection, Walking on Lava - Selected Works for Uncivilised Times was published. We held a great launch at Juju's Bar at the Old Truman's Brewery, Brick Lane where I...
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Life and death on the Sussex Downs
Last month I travelled to Brighton to discuss the new Dark Mountain website and afterwards went with fellow ed Nick Hunt to meet some of our Brighton subscribers for a drink in The Foundry pub. It was...
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Dark Kitchen: Uncivilising the Table
This week I introduced a new Dark Mountain series that explores food and eating in times of collapse. Follow us during this Lenten month as we travel through different kingdoms and terrains,...
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
The writer keeps the door open, so the world doesn’t close down ...When you stand on the edge of the society you have been taught is everything, and plunge into an unknown territory, you feel you know...
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Letter to Mr. Gurdjieff
Last week the upcoming Dark Mountain: Issue 14 on place and belonging went to Bracketpress to be typeset and designed. After months of forging its pages and the new sparkly website, I am finally...
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Varanasi
Last month in a rainswept and flooded Cumbria we launched Dark Mountain: Issue 14 - TERRA into the world, a co-production between three editors - Nick Hunt, Nancy Campbell and myself - three 'scouts'...
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Disappearing Acts
We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. Following this year's shocking report that the planet has lost half its wildlife in the past 40 years, and the 2018 Remembrance Day for Lost...
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In Search of a Lexicon for the Deep Core
Still from 'Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow', documentary about Anselm Kiefer by Sophie Fiennesthe wordsthe breadthe child who reaches for the truths beyond the doorthe yearning to begin again...
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Sea Change
In the Calm / In the Surge / Somewhere between Paradise and Desolation' by Leya Tess,After a lull in posting, this a piece I wrote recently for the new series I'm editing over at Dark Mountain online...
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The Earth Does Not Speak in Prose
Reading Dark Mountain by Kit BoydA conversation with Paul Kingsnorth for the just published tenth anniversary edition of Dark Mountain about writing in times of catastrophe, decoloniing language and...
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Outbreak
As human societies find themselves gripped in the claws of a pandemic, we encounter a cultural crisis which the Dark Mountain Project has been documenting for over a decade. This long form essay...
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Sitting with the Trouble
The Saint and the Oystercatcher by Kate WaltersSit with me: I am in a circle in the back room of a small pub in North Oxford, under the shelter of a giant copper beech. Spring is unfurling its leaves....
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Tufton Street: Fiery Words Under a Police Helicopter
On 2nd September I joined 19 other rebel writers to call to account the lobbyists and climate deniers who direct government policy outside their Westminster office. Here is a piece about that event...
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Temescal
Barrow by Dan Porter (Dark Mountain: Issue 19For the last six months I've been working as art editor and producer of the just-publishedDark Mountain: Issue 19. I also contributed two pieces: an...
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Relearning the Language of a Lost World
'Sentience' by Meryl McMaster (from Issue 16 - REFUGE) This is an article I wrote for Noema magazine in the spring. It forms the basis of a new online course I am running with fellow Dark Mountaineers...
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When the Bones of our Ancestors Speak to Us: A Fugitive Conversation with...
Earlier this year I interviewed the postactivist philosopher Bayo Akomolafe for Dark Mountain: Issue 19, our spring collection of art and writing on death, loss and renewal. I had just completed his...
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52 Flowers That Shook My World - A Radical Return to Earth (new format!): 1 -...
High Desert, Arizona on the border with Mexico, one of the book's main territoriesTwenty years ago I had a dream that changed the course of my life utterly. It was about a weed that grows along the...
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After Ithaca - Voyages in Deep Time to be published this May!
A pile of seeds, a tuft of wool, a vessel of water, a closed box What happens when the heroes disappear, when the battle for the city is over, when you return to the island and find a box in your...
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Plant Dialogues
This year I have been co-producing a series of Dark Mountain creative workshops centred around the. eight fires of the ancestral, solar year. Called How We Walk Through the Fire, this ensemble practice...
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My Body, The Ancestor
Mycelial Threads by Graeme WalkerExcerpt from a mycelial conversation with the poet and ecological storyteller, Sophie Strand for the spring issue of Dark Mountain 21, shaped around the theme of...
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After Ithaca – Journeys in Deep Time
My latest book After Ithaca – Journeys in Deep Time has just been launched into the world. Here is an excerpt from the title essay published by the Dark Mountain Project, with an short introduction...
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VIGIL
'We’re all of us living on borrowed time: the brevity of our personal span of existence now mirrored by a biosphere under intolerable pressure, its every life system beginning to fray and unravel under...
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On the move!
Hello dear readers - I am presently shifting my online work to another location which will be announced shortly. This trusty blog will be kept as an archive, so do have a look around! Otherwise you...
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