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Labyrinth of Silence
James Mcconachie
14th September, 2021
James Mcconachie considers the past, present and uncertain future of La España vaciada: Spain's hollowed-out interior, known for wildfires, hailstorms and abandoned dwellings.
The Promise of the Black Grouse
Monique Besten
8th September, 2021
Last in our present series of Other Kingdoms we bring you Monique Besten's elegy on the black grouse of her native Netherlands from Issue 19.
Beast Dreaming
Nicholas
25th August, 2021
Biologist Nicholas Wilkinson had never seen a living saola. And then the dilemma about saving this endangered antelope from extinction came into his dreams.
Launch of Dark Mountain: Issue 20
Do join us for the online launch of our new autumn journal - 21st October
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Out today! Our new autumn journal Dark Mountain: Issue 20 – ABYSS
The Editors
15th October, 2021
Our new all-colour special autumn journal on extractivism is here! Dark Mountain: Issue 20 - ABYSS delves deep into civilisation's plunder of Earth.
If At Night Termites Tick Like Time In Our Bones*
Sharon Black Fawzia Kane and Michael McLane
26th April, 2021
Three poems from our 'requiem' collection that voice what remains when houses and hives are abandoned by the living. With ceremonial artwork by Jim Carter.
Oxen
Cynan Jones
19th October, 2020
From the pages of our first fiction issue, we bring you a short story by Cynan Jones, set in a near-future Britain ravaged by climate change. With illustrations by Nick Hayes.
Featured Section
Under the Canopy
'Our ancestors came from the canopy, and – given our species’ reliance on trees to make our world habitable – in many ways we never left it. Or it never left us.’ This ongoing section is an invitation for writers and artists to explore the effects that trees have on us.
The Forest and the Map
22nd September, 2021
The Forest Spirits
28th July, 2021
Life Among the Branches
6th January, 2021
Dark Mountain: Issue 20 – ABYSS
Our Autumn 2021 journal is a special all-colour collection of art and writing that delves into the legacy of extractivism