Full CV - still under construction as of June, 2026

Justin (P.) Hopper born USA 1972, lives and works in East Anglia.

A writer and performer whose work explores the intersection of landscape, memory and myth through books, zines, spoken-word recordings, site-specific text projects, live performance and more.

Books:

Dead the Long Year – Far West Press, 2025

Obsolete Spells: Poems & Prose from Victor Neuburg & the Vine Press (Editor/Author) – Strange Attractor Press, 2022

The Old Weird Albion – Penned in the Margins, 2017

Zines / Artist’s Books:

A Celebration of the General (poetry) – Jackdaw Shivers Press, 2026

They Live By Lamp Light: Psychogeography for New Energy Vampires (editor) – Jackdaw Shivers Press, 2026

The Trapping Fog (poetry) – Jackdaw Shivers Press, 2024

A Sanctuary (editor) – University of Sussex, 2023

The Dance of Our Days (creative non-fiction, handmade artist’s book) – Voices in a Lane, 2021

Public Record (poetry, handmade artist’s book) – Encyclopedia Destructica, 2010

Live Performances:

A Celebration of the General (National Gallery commission, 2024; also SPILL Festival 2025 and Old Hall, East Bergholt, 2026 for Constable 250)

The Great Satanic Swindle (Black Shuck Festival Suffolk, Enable US Festival Sheffield, London, Brighton, Leeds, Colchester, Teeside, others) 2024-2025

Chanctonbury Rings (Brighton Festival; London; Ipswich; others) 2019

Swift Wings (Barbican, London; Brighton; Sheffield; Oxford; Cambridge; others) 2022

I Made Some Low Inquiries (SPILL Festival; Leigh Folk Festival; others) 2015

Teaching, Lectures, Readings:

Tate Britain (five-week courses in 2013, 2014, 2015)

Founder of East Anglian Landscape Network (events promoting landscape art in Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk/Cambs.)

Writing the Uncanny Landscape (workshops: Norwich, London, others)

ARTiculation 2026 East Anglia judge, Norwich (via National Gallery); writing workshops 2026 at National Gallery.

Sussex ReTold 2026, University of Sussex

Weirding Sustainability 2026, Cambridge University CRASSH (keynote speaker)

Other lectures, workshops and readings include: Damas in Lisbon, Portugal; National Maritime Museum, London; Interlochen Center for the Arts, Michigan; York St John’s University; National Writers Centre, Norwich; ICA, London; many more.

Selected Commissions& Contributions:

Making the Connections (book on 50 community projects) – The Sprout Fund, 2008

If You Had a Year to Change Something, What Would You Do? (chapter in book) – Tate Britain and CODE University, 2015

Watery Commons (chapter on artist’s project on the River Tweed) – Connecting Threads and Stanley James Press, 2025

Weird Walk magazine (contributions to issues #1, 2, 3 ) – articles, photographs and an interview about my books

Hellebore magazine (contribution to #11) – article on history of Suffolk horse-related ritual

Reliquary magazine (by Weird Walk, contribution to issue #1) – article on Edwardian occult detectives

Stour (contributions to book) – poems for River Stour Festival, Estuarine Press, 2018

Exhaust Fumes, Magnolias & Light: Selected Lyrics 1997-2021 by Alasdair MacLean (foreword) – Edge of the Lane Press, 2022

Listening to Landscape by Phil Hubbard (foreword) – Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Mount London (chapter, creative non-fiction) – Penned in the Margins, 2014

Journalism:

As a newspaper editor and freelance journalist from 1999 to 2012, and as on-staff writer for Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Museum of Art, I published hundreds of articles on music, art, science, technology, politics and more. A few of which I’m particularly proud include:

‘The Metamorphosis’ – award-winning feature on the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s section of invertebrate zoology.

‘Waving the Anti-Flag’ – award-winning feature following leftist punks Anti-Flag on tour after the September 11th attacks.

‘El Camino’ – award-winning feature on the life of an undocumented immigrant in Pittsburgh and a play based on his journey.

Sound & Vision:

Uncanny Landscapes Podcast: interviews with contemporary landscape practitioners (2020-present)

We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher – narrator and on-screen star; film, Close & Remote, 2025 (screenings held globally; translated into multiple languages)

The Path by Belbury Poly – LP/CD/DL/Stream, Ghost Box Records, 2023

Chanctonbury Rings by Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus – LP/CD/DL/Stream, Ghost Box Records, 2019

Swift Wings by Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus – CD/DL/Stream, 2022

Public Record: Ipswich – DL, SPILL Festival, 2016

I Made Some Low Inquiries – CD/DL, Eighth Climate Records, 2016

Public Record: Pittsburgh – DL and app, Wood Street Galleries, 2011

Public Record: Estuary – DL, METAL, Southend-on-Sea, 2013 for Shorelines: Festival of Literature of the Sea

Ley Line – DL, Jackdaw Shivers Press, 2012

Intermission (contributions to compilation album) – LP/CD/DL/Stream Ghost Box Records, 2021

Exhibitions Curated:

The City & the City: Artwork by London Writers, Wood Street Galleries, 2012 (Caroline Bergvall, Rod Dickinson, Rachel Lichtenstein, Tom McCarthy, Chris Petit, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Iain Sinclair, and Sukhdev Sandhu)

Pastoral Noir: New English Landscapes, Wood Street Galleries, 2016 (Tessa Farmer, Jem Finer, Ghost Box Records, Tony Heywood & Alison Condie, Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton, Semiconductor)

River Separates Water, Wood Street Galleries, 2018 (He Xiangyu, French & Mottershead, Hanna Tuulikki)

Feelgood Café, METAL Southend-on-Sea, 2014 (Jem Finer, Paul Duane, Ex-Easter Island Head, Urthona, more)

Screen shot from We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher.

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