Charlotte Du Cann

Charlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. She also teaches collaborative writing and art, and radical kinship with the other-than-human world. In 1991 she left her life as a London features and fashion journalist with a one-way ticket to Mexico. After travelling for a decade, she settled on the East Anglian coast to write a sequence of books about reconnecting with the Earth. The first of these 52 Flowers That Shook My World – A Radical Return to Earth documents an exploration into the language and medicine of plants from the Oxford Botanical Gardens to the high desert of Arizona. Recently, Charlotte has written about activism, myth and cultural change for publications including New York Times, the Guardian, Noema and openDemocracy, Her second collection of essays and memoir, After Ithaca – Journeys in Deep Time, centred around the four initiatory tasks of Psyche, was published in 2022.

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Putting the Meadow Back Into Your Loaf

We evolved with fermentation. Our language and cognitive function, our physiological and social structure, evolved around bread.

May 30, 2023

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Uncivilising the Table

This is a story about food and powerdown. It could seem like a personal story except that it is not: it is a social story about how everything changes when you break the illusions your civilisation is wrapped in. 

May 24, 2023

Martin Shaw

Uncolonising the Imagination

A story is not just an allegory, or a metaphorical point. It’s a love affair, and one of the most wonderful ways of breaking the trance states being put on us at this point in time, is to figure out what you love.

April 4, 2023

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My Body, The Ancestor

Stories and myths and scripture were originally oral and adaptive to changing social and ecological conditions and political climate. So I think the main thing about this interstitial space is always inviting my readers in to change me, to risk being changed by our conversation.

April 29, 2022

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When the Bones of our Ancestors Speak to Us: A Fugitive Conversation with Bayo Akomolafe

We can only ally and build stronger coalitions for change with the world around us (and not just with humans). Postactivism is the opening to this.

October 28, 2021

Charlotte in Westminster

Tufton Street: Fiery Words Under a Police Helicopter

Writers are by the nature of their trade rebels – rebelling against the past and its hostilities that hold us all ransom, breaking convention, the rigidity of the status quo, so that entropy does not set in and life can flourish. Their loyalty is not to their upbringing, but to their art.

September 23, 2020

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