Thank you Porchlight Book Company for all the support and this lovely review!

Thanks to Frinton Literary Festival for hosting me on Friday on the Essex coast, and to everyone who came to the event. I wish I'd had a bit more time to explore the Backwaters, but the muddy tidal labyrinth I glimpsed looked suitably outlandish...

Happening this upcoming Tuesday! 25th Oct at 7:30pm. The online launch for the new issue of DarkMountainProject ARK. Come and hear and see some of the great writing and art in this book, gleaned from the shoreline in these times of wreckage. All welcome!
#booklaunch
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Themes for tonight's OUTLANDISH talk at Frinton Literary Festival frintonliteraryfestival.co.uk/programme/

Tonight!

Amidst the chaos, the govt’s #AttackOnNature continues

Please read, share & tag your MP in on this very important letter below

Ripping up all retained EU law by the end of 2023 - including 570 environmental laws - is utterly bonkers.

This gleaming thing washed up in the wreckage: DarkMountainProject's latest issue ARK, a cargo of testimonies, stories and artwork gleaned after the flood. I have a short, strange story in there. The book is a real beauty. dark-mountain.net/launching-toda…

I'll be bringing outlandishness to Frinton Literary Festival on Friday – can't wait to see some of you there!

Launching today! Our autumn issue DarkMountainProject ARK 'a testament to the imagination of writers and artists, gleaners in a world that has lost its way, to show how we can regenerate an Earth-centred culture from what has been bequeathed us on a vanished tide.' dark-mountain.net/launching-toda…

This is the Plastic Sea I wrote about in OUTLANDISH, so big it has its own albedo effect, minutely cooling the atmosphere even as migrant labourers swelter in a pesticide sauna inside it. If you buy any fruit or veg from Spain, it probably comes from here.

Looking forward to travelling to Essex next Friday for the Frinton Literary Festival!

Brilliant to see Sarah Thomas in Bristol last night, reading from THE RAVEN'S NEST in an intimate kvöldvaka atmosphere. She's at Stanfords in London tomorrow, so see her there if you can. Dr. Sarah Thomas

Calling writers and artists, growers and cooks! A month to go until submissions close for DarkMountainProject's 23rd issue, a book about food culture and farming in times of unravelling and collapse. What will you bring to the table? Charlotte Du Cann Nancy Campbell dark-mountain.net/dark-kitchen-a…

ALL ABOARD! You are invited to join our online launch of this year’s DarkMountainProject special issue on Tues 25th Oct, 7:30pm. An ARK you might not expect, with a cargo stories & art gleaned from the wreckage left by a flood that has already come #creativesalvage eventbrite.co.uk/e/dark-mountai…

Goodbye again to the last snow in Scotland. I'm lucky to have seen it in 2019, two pale eyes looming on the mountainside.

I wrote this afterword for the pb edition of OUTLANDISH. The young Syrian man I've since become friends with crossed the border in exactly this way, risking his life in the same forest that I visited as a 'traveller'. Our experiences of the same place couldn't be more different.

I've just helped secure a lawyer for a Syrian asylum seeker I met through a refugee charity. Suella Braverman's smile (and Priti Patel's before her) are a very large part of the reason I got involved.

Looking forward to seeing my Syrian friend's smile when he gets to stay.

There are still some places left for our six-week online course with Schumacher College, featuring Charlotte Du Cann, Mark Watson, Caroline Ross and myself. Join us in the labyrinth from the 27th October!

Come and join us on our online course this winter
Schumacher College as we take the labyrinthine track into the Underworld to explore how we can create regenerative culture & find our feel on the dancing floor of Earth //www.dartington.org/event/the-labyrinth-and-the-dancing-floor/