Eco-poetic thinker and writer
Marcus Demetrius Link
I am interested in the way we humans come to tell the stories we do about who we are, what the world is, and what our role in it might be. My work explores different ways of knowing, experiencing and being in relation with life. Over the years, I have organised these into what I call the Compass Rose of Consciousness, first articulated in my book Keystones in the Patterns of Place.
Featured Books
Keystones in the Patterns of Place
A Book About the Stories We Tell with Our Footprint
… even when we insist that we are not telling any stories about who we are, what the world is, and what our role in it might be. It is a book about what stories do to us and what we do to the world because of the stories we tell, and also about what a difference having a footprint can make.
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- Hardback
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Keystone Publications
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- ISBN
- 978-1-0683788-0-5
- Date
- Forthcoming
A Boy Called Wild
An Autist’s Imaginal Memoir
The autobiographical companion to Keystones. Where Keystones maps the territory, this memoir walks it.
- Format
- Hardback
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Keystone Publications
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- ISBN
- 978-1-0683788-1-2
- Date
- Forthcoming
In Print · The Complete Quantum Poetry
Inkblot Moon
Four volumes of poetry written across a decade, traced along the long arc of a life lived on the edge between the inner and the outer.
- Format
- Hardback
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Keystone Publications
- Pages
- —
- ISBN
- 978-1-0683788-2-9
- Date
- Forthcoming
See all books, including the four individual Quantum Poetry volumes →
Featured Posts, Essays, Poems & Talks
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Talk Could our future depend on relearning what it means to be indigenous?
A talk for the Positive Nature Network, May 2023: could our future depend on relearning what it means to be indigenous — to belong to a place rather than to own it?
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Talk Surrendering to the mystery
A conversation with Ben Johnson on self-discovery and expression: letting go of the 'doer', being present and authentic even when it is uncomfortable, and surrendering to the mystery of a creative life.
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Talk Humans as a Beneficial Keystone Species on Earth
A Holos Earth Project talk, September 2022: can human beings become a beneficial keystone species — agents at the edge of becoming in the unfolding of greater wholeness, life and beauty?
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Poem Moulting
On parting as its own kind of death, and how keenly the loss is felt at first.
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Essay Wholeness is the Fool’s Business – Part III
Part III of The Way of the Fool: why wholeness, not cleverness, is the Fool's true work — and the inner guides who teach what no human master can.
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Poem My Gallows Star
A rope of light let down from a distant star, and the darkness that both lights it and holds us apart.
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My work builds on other thinkers and writers including
Iain McGilchrist · Tyson Yunkaporta · Lyla June Johnston · Henri Corbin · E.F. Schumacher · Rainer Maria Rilke · and many more
Recurring subjects and threads across my writing, including
Individuation · Brokenness · The Boy · The Self · Wholeness · Soul · Consciousness · Depth Psychology · Time and Meaning · Transformation · the full index