Savage Gods

Seeking a sense of home after years of environmental activism, author Paul Kingsnorth moves with his family to a smallholding in Ireland. Instead of peace, he experiences a radical crisis of faith as his tools as a writer begin to fail him, challenging his deepest beliefs about language, culture, and nature. Informed by indigenous perspectives, literary influences like D.H. Lawrence and Annie Dillard, and the raw realities of working his own land, Savage Gods is a searing, deeply personal inquiry into what it truly means to belong—and whether words draw us closer to the living world or tear us away from it.