My long-awaited book, North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos, is in the final stages of preparation for the printers. It’s due out near the end of this year, published by the fantastic Strange Attractor Press. The website will be launched soon. It’s all happening.

I’ll be doing at least a few talks to coincide with the launch of the book, and first in line is Weekend Other World, an exciting event put together by English Heretic.

English Heretic and Exploring The Extraordinary present ‘Weekend Other World’. An evening and day of kaleidoscopic discussions, screenings, and performances at the intersection of film, fiction, music, anthropology, cosmology and occultism.

Friday 24th October – Apiary Studios Hackney
Electricity and Nature, Megalithic Drone, 21st Century occult rock Performances by: Teleplasmiste * Matthew Shaw * English Heretic

Saturday 25th October – Cinema Museum, Kennington
We gather some of the finest researchers, curators and artists in the fields of extraordinary experience and outre culture to look at music, film and fiction from magical, cosmological and anthropological perspectives. Weekend Other World attempts to define a rigorous yet creative approach, cross-pollinating various disciplines to breed new genres of research, artistic expression and cultural theory,

Dr James Riley * Will Fowler * Dr Hannah Gilbert * Lisa Cradduck & Adelle Stripe * Gyrus * The Quietus * Unearthing Forgotten Horrors * Evie Salmon * Jack Hunter * Andy Sharp

Followed by a screening of the 16mm print of Derek Jarman’s In The Shadow Of The Sun

I’ll be talking about the films The Thing and The Truman Show, using them to inspect the strange post-Copernican mutations of archaic cosmological motifs.

More details and tickets over at the English Heretic website.