Paul Kingsnorth is a writer and poet living in Cumbria, England. He is the author of several books, including the poetry collection Kidland and his fictional debut The Wake, winner of the Gordon Burn Prize and the Bookseller Book of the Year Award. Kingsnorth is the cofounder and director of the Dark Mountain Project, a network of writers, artists, and thinkers.
Paul Kingsnorth
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The Axis and the Sycamore
What if the collision between ecology and modern civilization isn’t an environmental problem, but a spiritual one? Continue reading
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Dark Ecology
Take the only tree that’s left, Stuff it up the hole in your culture. —Leonard Cohen Retreat to the desert, and fight. —D. H. Lawrence THE HANDLE, which varies in length Continue reading
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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
Scenes from a younger life # 1: I am twelve years old. I am alone, I am scared, I am cold, and I am crying my eyes out. I can’t see Continue reading