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Paradise Haunts

by Catrina Davies 16.01.20

How We Walk Through the Fire

by The Dark Mountain Project 13.01.20

Blackout Thoughts

by Tom Walsh 08.01.20

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On the Road with 12 Characters in Search of an Apocalypse

Jason Stewart

2nd January, 2020

In the second half our double bill about the role of theatre in times of collapse. Jason Stewart tells the tale of touring a show that hosts a discussion about the climate crisis.

On Gathering Uncivilised Arts

REVIEW: Choke Me

Dr Harriet Earle

31st December, 2019

This week we look at the role theatre plays in bringing the reality of the climate crisis into people's lives. Today, Harriet Earle reviews the Sheffield production of 'Choke Me'.

Uncivilised Arts

How A Dead Philosopher Saved My Life

Christopher Cokinos

26th December, 2019

As the year draws to its end, Christopher Cokinos contemplates the nature of will in a collapsing world by the grave of Arthur Schopenhauer.

Dark Thoughts

The Loch Beneath the Loch

Dougie Strang

11th December, 2019

This month's Featured Mountaineer, Dougie Strang walks though the North West Highlands of Scotland and encounters the invisible landscape of myth and story that lies beneath the surface

Journeys The Mythos We Live By

Pigeons of Perwa Waterfall

Vinit Agarwal

9th December, 2019

Today in 'The Vanishing', Vinit Agarwal merges fiction with reality as he recounts a childhood tale set within the Koel Karo anti-dam protest site in Jharkhand, India.

The Vanishing

Dark Mountain: Issue 16 – REFUGE

The Autumn 2019 issue is a tenth anniversary collection celebrating a decade of uncivilised writing and art

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From Our Latest Book

Introducing Dark Mountain: Issue 16 – REFUGE

The Editors

17th October, 2019

Just published! Our anniversary edition, Dark Mountain: Issue 16 - REFUGE, celebrating ten years of uncivilised writing and art 'The search for a lexicon that not only explores the existential crisis we share, but also ... a deeper story about being human'.

Issue 16: REFUGE

Speaking with the Ancestors

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and Ben Weaver

31st October, 2019

From our new Dark Mountain collection: two poems of return by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and Ben Weaver. With deer drawing by Rebecca Clark

From Our Books Issue 16: REFUGE

Invasives

Akshay Ahuja

24th October, 2019

From Dark Mountain 16 - REFUGE: Akshay Ahuja grapples with honeysuckle and other 'monsters' in times of ecological fall. With forest painting by Kate Williamson

Issue 16: REFUGE

Featured Mountaineer

Paradise Haunts

16th January, 2020

Lost in Transit

12th November, 2019

Why I Live in a Shed

16th January, 2019

My Tin Shed Technosphere

24th December, 2015

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Catrina Davies

is an author and songwriter. She was born in Snowdonia and grew up around Land's End, in Cornwall, UK. Her first book, The Ribbons are for Fearlessness is a true story about busking from Norway to Portugal. Her second book, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed is a first-hand account of the housing crisis. Belan is her second album.

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.

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Dark Mountain: Issue 16 – REFUGE

The Autumn 2019 issue is a tenth anniversary collection celebrating a decade of uncivilised writing and art

Dark Mountain

The Latest

On the Road with 12 Characters in Search of an Apocalypse

REVIEW: Choke Me

How A Dead Philosopher Saved My Life

The Loch Beneath the Loch

Pigeons of Perwa Waterfall

Dark Mountain: Issue 16 – REFUGE

From Our Latest Book

Introducing Dark Mountain: Issue 16 – REFUGE

Speaking with the Ancestors

Invasives

Featured Mountaineer

Paradise Haunts

Lost in Transit

Why I Live in a Shed

My Tin Shed Technosphere

Catrina Davies

Featured Section

Under the Canopy

Where the Trees Used to Be

Older Than Writing

The First Tree

Dark Mountain: Issue 16 – REFUGE