Savage Gods

Signed by the author

First published in 2019, and now republished in a new edition with a new introduction by the author, Savage Gods is Paul's unique, spiritual semi-memoir. A search for home, a quest for the meaning of words and an inward battle about the value and purpose of writing, it is unlike anything Paul has ever written before, or probably ever will again.

Informed by his experiences with indigenous peoples, the writings of D.H. Lawrence, Annie Dillard, W. B Yeats and others, the myths and gods of pre-modern cultures, and the day-to-day travails of farming his own land, Savage Gods asks: what does it mean to belong? What sacrifices must be made in order to truly inhabit a life? And can words ever paint the truth of the world - or are they part of the great lie which is killing it?

“The most incredible book I read this year. This is a writer - and a writer that burns -
attempting to cure himself of writing, on the page, and it leads to some profound, and just as often jaw-dropping, insights.”

David Keenan, The Guardian

“A furiously gifted writer.”

The Washington Post

“There are few writers as raw or brave on the page. Savage Gods is an important book.”

Los Angeles Review of Books