Paul Kingsnorth
Novelist-essayist exploring tradition, ecology, spirituality, and modernity in searching, contrarian prose.
Novelist-essayist exploring tradition, ecology, spirituality, and modernity in searching, contrarian prose.
Paul Kingsnorth values this poem because it provided the core metaphor for the disastrous rhythm of modern civilization.
“the dance of the dream led masses down the dark mountain”
Paul Kingsnorth values this work for its philosophical insight regarding matter as mind in hibernation.
“mata is mind in hibernation”
Paul Kingsnorth recommends this collection of poems because he finds it full of substance, exciting, and refreshingly unfashionable in the current literary climate.
“it's full of substance and it's very very unfashionable especially given the state of the British poetry scen at at the moment”
Paul Kingsnorth values this collection for its cover art and its poem 'Passport', which resonates with the theme of entering a new life with nothing.
Paul Kingsnorth values this work as his non-fiction magnum opus and a culmination of thirty years of exploration regarding the nature of the modern machine.
Paul Kingsnorth views this two-volume work as a profound achievement representing a lifetime of intellectual labor.
“an enormous two volume achievement the the the the the notes of which the uh the footnotes of which are almost as big as my entire book.”
Paul Kingsnorth values this work as one of the most significant analyses of the current state of culture and human cognition.
“the master and his emissery the divided brain in the making of the western world which is a really wonderful book”
Paul Kingsnorth values this work for its focus on replacing fossil-fuel-based art supplies with forgotten natural methods.
Paul Kingsnorth values this work because it provides a practical guide for foraging and creating ecologically sound pigments from nature.
Paul Kingsnorth highlights this book as a key example of how Stephen Freeman combines learning and wisdom.
Paul Kingsnorth values this work as part of the body of writing that critiques machine modernity from an Orthodox perspective.
Paul Kingsnorth values this work as a foundational text in understanding the intersection of feminism and the critique of technological progress.
Paul Kingsnorth values this work because it provides a medieval perspective on the spiritual benefits of suffering and long-term illness.
“All this life of distress which we have here is only a moment, and when we are suddenly taken from suffering into bliss, then it will be nothing”
Paul Kingsnorth recommends this as a work of great wisdom suitable for his current state of brain fog.
“I can manage Frog and Toad, but I couldn’t go near the Philokalia.”
Paul Kingsnorth values this work for its profound insights into the Orthodox experience of the 'Uncreated Light.'
“‘The soul feels apprehensive at approaching the subject of the Light which visits the man who craves to behold the Face of the Eternal’”
Paul Kingsnorth values this work because it provides a sympathetic and rigorous historical demolition of the false claims regarding the ancient origins of modern witchcraft.
“It turned out, disappointingly, that this was a complete fiction; one that was sympathetically demolished by Ronald Hutton in his 1999 book on modern witchcraft The Triumph of the Moon.”
