Mike Hembury is an Anglo-Berliner originally from Portland, England. He’s a writer, musician, photographer, sailor, environmentalist and poet in no particular order. You can follow Mike on social media here: Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, as well as on Muckrack.
Mike’s recent activity includes:
- An essay entitled “Baltic Summer” published in “Dark Ocean“, a Dark Mountain anthology (October ’24).
- A poem – “Shadows” – published in Issue 26 of Berlin’s Stadtsprachen Magazine.
- The Dark Ocean Residency, with Sail Britain. The resulting cycle of poems was published online here.
- Festival appearances at Berlin’s Karneval der Kulturen, and Folklorum folk festival on the German-Polish border.
- A CD with The Balkonians: Blue Balcony
- A novel: New Clone City
- A regular column in The Wild Word
- “Broken Places Berlin-Neukölln” in Dark Mountain’s Dispatches from a Stricken World series.
- “Journal of a Journey” on Leopardskin and Limes.
- A limited edition “photopoetic journal” entitled “Sailing with Alcuin“, the result of a week spent in Western Scotland with the Sail Britain project. Selected poems and photographs were also exhibited as part of the Sail Britain Symposium in London, November 2019.
- A piece entitled “The Coastline Project” on ClimateCultures.
- An essay entitled “Hermannplatz” in Elsewhere Journal’s online blog.
- A “letter from Berlin” entitled “Red River Backwards” on the Dark Mountain website.
- A poem entitled “Sweeping the Dust” on ClimateCultures.
- Two poems on Visual Verse
- A autobiographical essay in Dark Mountain 14: Terra
- A short story entitled “November First, Breakfast” in The Wild Word
- Articles in The Huffington Post, Znet, Medium and Green Left Weekly
Mike is also a member of the ClimateCultures community and the International League of Conservation Writers.