A map, a manual, a sketch book,

A wraggle-taggle lexicon.

A collective love song

for a collapsing world

 

— from 'Eight Fires' (Issue 24)

'Honouring the Ancestors: Samhain' (detail) by Candace Jensen

Dark Mountain

Turtles Are Our Ancestors
by Shrishtee Bajpai 29.11.23
Against Rigour
by Nina Pick 15.11.23
‘Awna العَونة
by Juman Simaan 08.11.23

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Wanderings in the Himalayas

Rucha Virmani
22nd November, 2023
'In the city, away from the forests and stars, we were so eager to become that we forgot how to be.' Today poet and youth activist Rucha Virmani tells of returning home to the Himalayan landscape in the midst of high-speed modernity and extractivist damage.
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Eight Fires: the Winter Sessions – December 2023

Four online gatherings to explore creative land-based practice
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What’s Possible

14th May, 2020

Invasives

24th October, 2019

At the Mercy of Fools

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War with the Newts

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Akshay Ahuja

grew up in New Delhi and the suburbs outside Washington, DC, and now lives in Southwest Ohio with his wife and son. He works as a gardener at a teaching farm, and writes about food, plants, and the arts in their various wild and domesticated forms.

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Of Earth and Empire

It's not where you come from that matters, but how you live in a place'. Our new series, Of Earth and Empire, looks at what it takes for modern deracinated peoples to 'return' home to the Earth, and how writing and storytelling can be a bridge to remembering our primary relationship with the wild world, even as civilisation falls apart.

Turtles Are Our Ancestors

By Shrishtee Bajpai
29th November, 2023

‘Awna العَونة

By Juman Simaan
8th November, 2023

The Life Cycle

By Kate Rawles
25th August, 2023
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Dark Mountain: Issue 24 – Eight Fires

Our Autumn 2023 full colour edition is an ensemble exploration of the eight ceremonial fires of the year, celebrated in practices, stories, poetry and artwork.

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