Will the Whales Inherit the Earth?
Rupert Read
7th April, 2021
For The Vanishing series, Rupert Read considers the future of human societies , following in the wake of whales. With artworks by Angela Cockayne.
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Walking in the Void
Dougald Hine
1st April, 2021
At the climax of an exhibition inspired by the Dark Mountain manifesto, Dougald Hine wonders about the role of artistic ritual in facing the end of the world as we have known it.
Plunder – a call for submissions for Dark Mountain: Issue 20
The Editors
17th March, 2021
Submissions are now open for our Autumn 2021 issue, on the theme of 'extractivism'
Paradise Lost
Christopher Records
17th March, 2021
Writer Christopher Records explores the rift between the idea and the reality of Earth in California during times of pandemic and forest fire.
Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto
The pamphlet that launched the Dark Mountain Project, republished in paperback with a new introduction.
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Announcing our New Spring Journal Dark Mountain: Issue 19!
The Editors
15th April, 2021
Today, we publish our nineteenth issue, a spring collection, revolving around the theme of death, loss and renewal
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.
the river
adrienne maree brown
29th October, 2020
Our penultimate excerpt from Issue 18 is adrienne maree brown's short story about the rising of the waters, with artwork by Sunandini Banerjee
Featured Section
The Vanishing
We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. The Vanishing is a gathering of responses by writers and artists, not only to extinction – the deaths of entire species – but to the quieter extirpations, losses and disappearances that are steadily stripping our world of its complexity and beauty.
Will the Whales Inherit the Earth?
7th April, 2021
The Rhino More Fortunate
4th March, 2020
Pigeons of Perwa Waterfall
9th December, 2019
Dark Mountain: Issue 19
Our spring 2021 collection of prose, poetry and art revolves around the theme of death, loss and renewal