Autist · Eco-poetic philosopher · Dartmoor
Marcus Demetrius Link
I write about pattern, place, and the long story of how Western consciousness lost its bearings, and what it might mean to find them again.
The Books · Forthcoming 2026
Keystones in the Patterns of Place
A Book About the Stories We Tell with Our Footprint
A book about a civilisation that learned to think with only half its mind, and what happened to the world it was thinking about.
About the book →A Boy Called Wild
An Autist’s Imaginal Memoir
The autobiographical companion to Keystones. Where Keystones maps the territory, this memoir walks it.
About the memoir →
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.
About the book →See all books, including the four individual Quantum Poetry volumes →
The Work
I notice patterns. I am autistic, and my attention is monotropic: it does not divide easily across many small surfaces but stays with a few.
Patterns that span thousands of years and many disciplines are what monotropic attention is good for. Books are what it produces. Across thirty years of reading and writing I have moved between philosophy, ecology, depth psychology, fractal mathematics, alchemy, hemisphere theory, and poetry, looking for the shape of the wound and the shape of the way through. The work holds brokenness and wholeness together, and treats the symbolic and the literal as one plane rather than two.
More about me →We have a footprint. It is inevitable. The question is what kind.
Writing & Talks
The Way of the Fool
The Fool sets out with nothing and pays attention to everything. Six essays on the pilgrim’s path through a world that has forgotten how to be enchanted, and the exquisitely terrifying jolt of finding it again.
Read the series →For readers of
Iain McGilchrist · Tyson Yunkaporta · Daniel Christian Wahl · Henri Corbin · E.F. Schumacher