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Regeneration from the Ruins
Nick Hunt
31st August, 2022
Thunderstone: A true story of losing one home and finding another, by Nancy Campbell (Elliott...
Life Raft
Jessica Townsend
24th August, 2022
Jessica Townsend shares her 'life raft' – an example of a contemplative community coming together amid tumultuous times to engage with activism and climate breakdown.
Meltwater
Michaeldeluca
8th August, 2022
Michael J. DeLuca's surreal story of flash foods and floating apple trees succinctly captures the upturned world of climate crisis.
The Labyrinth and the Dancing Floor
Six-week online course on creating a culture of regeneration with Schumacher College (Oct-Dec)
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Announcing Dark Mountain: Issue 21
The Editors
15th April, 2022
Our new spring issue is now out! - a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry and artwork that revolves around the theme of confluence.
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 Issue 19 that voice what remains when houses and hives are abandoned by the living. With ceremonial artwork by Jim Carter.
The Diamond and the Glacier
Bhanu Kapil and Claire Wahmanholm
29th October, 2021
Extract from our autumn Issue 20 – ABYSS: poets Bhanu Kapil and Claire Wahmanholm stand in the dark and bear witness to an enduring crown and collapsing glacier. With artwork by Basia Irland.
Featured Section
Dark Verse
There’s been poetry at the heart of Dark Mountain from its beginnings. The name itself is taken from a line of Robinson Jeffers. In this section, you can get a taste of the uncivilised poetics for which we have sought to create a home.
Speaking the Language of Stars
28th September, 2022
Heading South from Disko Island
2nd August, 2022
The Nameless Are In Me
26th April, 2022
Dark Mountain: Issue 21
Our Spring 2022 issue is an anthology of non-fiction, fiction, poetry and artwork that revolves around the theme of confluence