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About - pk I am 75% English, 25% Greek Cypriot, 100% European and 0% European Union I am descended from the Viking Earls of the Orkney Isles My surname is Kentish and my family are Londoners I grew up in England, where my family have lived for a thousand years, and I now live in the west of Ireland, with my English-Punjabi wife and our children, some hens, an orchard, some polytunnels and a beehive
General 3 — pk Kingsnorth is unflinching in his keen-eyed gaze, and the message is chilling: but he is also inspiring in his determination that we must survive, and he points the way to what ultimately matters
Cross and machine — pk The Cross and the Machine ‘Europeans didn’t only disinherit Aztecs and Incas Continuously, since the sixteenth century, we have been disinheriting ourselves ’ —John Moriarty ‘There is no bloodless myth will hold ’ —Geoffrey Hill We must have been fifteen or sixteen when we discovered the church visitor’s book It was an old church, maybe medieval, and I would pass it with my
Savage Gods - pk The most incredible book I read this year was Paul Kingsnorth’s Savage Gods, a dramatic self-accounting that explodes 'nature writing' to strain at the limits of language itself
Books — pk Since 2003, I have published ten books: a non-fiction quartet investigating what I have come to call ‘the Machine’; a trilogy of novels; and two (soon to be three) collections of poetry There is also an outlier: Savage Gods, my strange 2019 crisis memoir You can read about them all below
Beast - pk Kingsnorth’s style is a kind of ancient modernism, and he’s really the only writer doing anything like it His taste for self-isolation has produced writing that is both powerful and singular – Beckett doing Beowulf
Writing — pk These are some of the best of my essays, reviews, short fiction and reportage from the 1990s until 2020 Since 2021, my essays have been published on my ongoing Substack page
interviews — pk 'Paul Kingsnorth’s Transhuman Apocalypse Unfolds in an Old English Fenland'
realengland — pk Kingsnorth is drawing the battle-lines of a new politics The Independent A readable call to arms, in the tradition of other national polemicists such as Cobbett, Priestley and Orwell The Observer A fine piece of old-fashioned journalism that is both original and throught-provoking … an angry, timely and brilliant book The Sunday Herald *