Charlotte Du Cann: 52 FLOWERS: 15 St John's Wort
railway bank, oxford 99 Some things you understand instantly. Nobody tells you how to love your best friend but the moment you see them ...| charlotteducann.blogspot.com
Writing in Transition| charlotteducann.blogspot.com
Writing in Transition| charlotteducann.blogspot.com
railway bank, oxford 99 Some things you understand instantly. Nobody tells you how to love your best friend but the moment you see them ...| charlotteducann.blogspot.com
'How do you prepare yourself to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning?' – Annie Dillard The Writing Life The sea glitt...| charlotteducann.blogspot.com
Hello dear readers - I am presently shifting my online work to another location. This trusty blog will be kept as an archive, so do have a look around! Otherwise you will be able to find my latest pieces, news, events and teachings on the new website:charlotteducann.net| Charlotte Du Cann
'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 civilisation’s weight. We witness its collapse every day now, in new stories of cataclysmic weather events, of lives lost, of flora and fauna weirded, disrupted, gone. However incipiently or unconsciously, we live at a time of collective grieving – no life exempt from the consequences of ...| Charlotte Du Cann
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 about how it was sparked alight.| Charlotte Du Cann
Mycelial Threads by Graeme Walker| Charlotte Du Cann
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 has so far placed attention on Kinship with Beasts, and Walking into the Wind. This month I'm sharing the fire-keeping with my fellow 'radical botanical' Mark Watson. Here is our call out. Do come and join us! | Charlotte Du Cann
A pile of seeds, a tuft of wool,| Charlotte Du Cann
High Desert, Arizona on the border with Mexico, one of the book's main territories| Charlotte Du Cann
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 innovative online course We Will Dance with Mountains which has just begun again this month. | Charlotte Du Cann
'Sentience' by Meryl McMaster (from Issue 16 - REFUGE)| Charlotte Du Cann
Barrow by Dan Porter (Dark Mountain: Issue 19| Charlotte Du Cann
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 and the role of writers-as-challengers to their conjuring of dangerous fictions. | Charlotte Du Cann
The Saint and the Oystercatcher by Kate Walters| Charlotte Du Cann
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 written for the online publication explores a myth of regeneration that might make sense of our predicament.| Charlotte Du Cann
Reading Dark Mountain by Kit Boyd| Charlotte Du Cann
In the Calm / In the Surge / Somewhere between Paradise and Desolation' by Leya Tess,| Charlotte Du Cann
Still from 'Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow', documentary about Anselm Kiefer by Sophie Fiennes| Charlotte Du Cann
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 Species, I wrote this piece on art and disappearance for Dark Mountain's 'The Vanishing' section. Here we look not only to extinction – the deaths of entire species – but to the quieter extirpations and losses that are steadily stripping our world of its complexity and beauty. How do we,...| Charlotte Du Cann
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' from different regions and over 60 writers and artists. It's a travel edition collection that looks at journeys, place and belonging in times of diaspora and descent. You can read the introduction and several extracts from TERRA over on the Dark Mountain website, meanwhile here is a piece I wro...| Charlotte Du Cann
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 posting an essay I wrote for the spring journal, set in the Wyre Forest in the depths of the winter solstice (in very different weather!).| Charlotte Du Cann
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 everything in parts of your self you did not know existed. (from Snake in the Box)| Charlotte Du Cann
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, sharpening our appetites and cooking knives, in the company of artists, filmmakers, writers and activists.| Charlotte Du Cann
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 a lively evening that brought its own return invitations: Nigel Berman, founder of the School of the Wild, asked me to run an Earth Dialogue event at the beginning of next year and Clare Whistler to create a burial installation (above in action!) for an art show she is co-curating at ONC...| Charlotte Du Cann
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 put on my not-quite-famous red coat and read from The Seven Coats, alongside five contributors and fellow editors, Nick and Dougald. This is a piece I wrote for openDemocracy to introduce the book and the project.| Charlotte Du Cann
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 Beginners'. Based on a story I wrote for Dark Mountain called The Seven Coats, it is having its first showing at the Festival of the Dark in Reading on 7th September.| Charlotte Du Cann
