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EARTHLINES: Rewilding the Future
As the autumn issue of Earthlines (no 7) is about to appear, I am republishing my summer Life in Transition column, written in late Spring. Strange how my focus is entirely on gathering and storing...
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ARCHIVE: Darkling Thrush
Some things you can't capture in a photograph in a time of fall: the scent of woodsmoke, the perfume of a quince, the sound of the sea roaring in the darkness, a sky with bright constellations, the...
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ARCHIVE - Confessions of a Class Traitor
In November 2009 I joined a collective column on the Eastern Daily Press called the One World Column, alongside a crew of progressive thinkers and writers from Norwich. Our main topics were centered on...
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doing the spring shift
There it goes again. Booooooooom! 4am, April 20. Bang on time. The bittern is back in the marshes. Gotta be spring out there, right? And yes, finally it is: bursting out of its cherry-plum celandine...
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seeing through a glass darkly - notes towards an aesthetic of uncivilisation
Laurence Edwards with Creek Man in the Suffolk marshesThose people were some kind of solution ('Waiting for the Barbarians', CF Cavafy)I'm exploring a territory I have not stepped into before. Maybe...
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52 FLOWERS: 25 agave
This is a story originally written for the Speaking Bush section of 52 Flowers That Shook My World. The section revolves around a series of plant essences made in the Arizona desert between 2000 -2001....
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ARCHIVE: Breaking the Habit
Happy New Year everyone! This post was originally published on the Transition Norwich community blog, This Low Carbon Life which ran stories every day for over three years. It was part of a three-day...
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Yarrow tea with Rosie
In 2012/3 I co-created and helped run a pilot for the grassroots newspaper, Transition Free Press. This was a full-on blue-pencil editing job on all macro and micro levels. However each issue I broke...
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52 FLOWERS: 6 eucalyptus
sydney, australia 1997The first sound I heard in Australia was cool and melo- dious, like a flute. It struck a clear note in a moment of confusion as we arrived unannounced at Andy’s flat in Elizabeth...
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EARTHLINES Life in Transition - The Gathering Time
The new spring issue of EarthLines is published this month and now mailing to all corners of the wild-loving globe. The magazine is published three times a year and my column, Life in Transition...
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The Free Press Gang
I should have started writing this an hour ago. I awoke in time, but I was listening to the world outside as darkness shifted into light. The stars drained from the sky, a vixen yipped, an owl called...
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What's Your Position As The Ship Goes Down?
It's the question the man keeps asking us, as he storms the stage and curses the thousand-year-old myth of exile that has wreaked havoc on the planet and the erstwhile robust psyche of the human race....
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52 FLOWERS 43 lilies
As Spring advances through the woods, here is an unpublished piece about lilies from the Radical Flowers chapter in 52 Flowers That Shook My World.Halesworth, Suffolk 2005I am standing in the darkened...
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ARCHIVE: Being Here
A piece about writers and belonging originally written during a week on Place Making and Neighbourhood for the Social Reporting Project, May Day 2012 (a bit early I know but in 2014 the bluebells - and...
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The Fabric of This World
In celebration of the new Dark Mountain anthology, here is a quick peek into the artwork pages (16 in all) that intersect the texts. As well as a photographic record of the four Uncivilisation...
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It's all in the bag
This Spring my friend and fellow journalist, Louise Chunn, got in touch and asked me to write a piece about the shift I had made from fashion ed to community activist for her website welldoing.org. We...
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ARCHIVE: we don't need no education
What a difference a year makes! Last Autumn I was writing posts once or twice a week, deeply embedded in the Transition movement. The summer was cold and dark, noisy with jubilee and sporting glory....
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Walking the Flower Path: Bluebell of Scotland
Last month I went up to a Dark Mountain gathering called Carrying the Fire in Scotland. As well as giving its director, my friend Dougie Strang a hand and taking part in the launch of Dark Mountain 5,...
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the life story of that thing
“The question of solutions is a question of scale. In a given situation which is graspable—that can be quite big—there is a solution. But it won’t be a universal solution: it is global solutions that...
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EARTHLINES: Halcyon Days
Happy Summer Solstice everyone! My copy of EarthLines magazine arrived today, so I am publishing the column I wrote for the previous Spring issue - an upside down post, as it was written at the turn of...
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