Books by John Seed

The first book to survey the works of 38 contemporary painters who are "disrupting" figurative painting with technology- and memory-inspired alterations.

This book of readings, meditations, rituals and workshop notes prepared on three continents provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environment. As relevant today as when it was originally published in 1988, this classic of the sustainability movement helps us experience our place in the web of life - rather than at the apex of some human-centered pyramid. An important deep ecology educational tool for activist, school and religious groups, it can also be used for personal reflection.

Smoke Rising is a documentary poem. Very much in the tradition of Charles Reznikoff's Testimony, it utilises oral sources to capture the speech - and perhaps the experience - of those who suffered the London Blitz.

This slim collection gathers together John Seed's poems written since the publication of his New and Collected.

The second volume of John Seed's exploration of Mayhew recasts the voices from the original text in a Reznikoffian manner and frees them from the confines of the narrative to let us hear the voices in a new context.

"Pictures from Mayhew" takes the voices reported by Henry Mayhew in the mid-19th century and splices them together into poems, allowing the voices space and a chance to communicate again to another age. Every word in the book is drawn from Mayhew's transcriptions.