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Childish Things

This essay on the role of art in modernity and its relationship to the sacred was written for Dark Mountain: Issue 12 – SANCTUM.

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How Climate Change Arrives

An essay for The Precariat, a one-off newspaper published by the organisers of Planet B festival in Peterborough.

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The Fall of the Murdoch Wall

An angry, hopeful reflection written in the days after the UK general election of 2017.

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You Want It Darker

When the regular mechanisms of political narration break down, there is a need for something stranger: liminal writing for liminal times.

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How to Deal With ‘The Nazi Philosopher Martin Heidegger’ When Writing for a General Audience

A short essay based on my experience as an editor at Dark Mountain.

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When the Maps Run Out

A letter I sent to readers of Crossed Lines, three days after the election of Donald Trump

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Spelling it Out

An essay about the three languages you need to take a project from dreams to reality. Written for Jessie Brennan’s book, Re:development.

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Pockets: A Story for Alan Garner

My contribution to First Light, a collection of writing that celebrates the life and work of the novelist Alan Garner.

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Conversations Writings

We Are the Only Species We Have the Option of Being: A Conversation With Anne Tagonist

Talking about collapse writing, online and in fiction.

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Expectations of Life & Death

What is different today is that living to grow old has become a reasonable expectation, something we can almost take for granted, rather than a matter of luck.