What beauty and life might
yet grow from the fallen trunk
of this civilisation?

— Dark Mountain: Issue 17

From 'Inside the Forest' by Sarah Misselbrook

Dark Mountain

Salmon Island
by Cooking Sections 23.09.20
Watching the World Outside My Door
by Rob Carney and Samantha Clark 17.09.20
Enter: Thunder, Fire, Smoke and Relearning New Languages
by Sara Jolena Wolcott 02.09.20

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The Beholding Eye

Jane Lovell
8th September, 2020
In the first of two pieces about landscape and perception, Jane Lovell explores geographer W.S Meinig's work on the ways we look at and have relationship with the land – from Cambridgeshire fields to a devastated Kent orchard to a 'wild' Sussex estuary.
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Dark Mountain: Issue 17

The Spring 2020 issue brings together essays. stories, poetry and artwork creating a new culture of restoration.  
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From Our Latest Books

Coral

Jay Griffiths
21st October, 2019
From our anniversary edition Dark Mountain: Issue 16 - REFUGE: a lament for the disappearing beauty of the coral reef by Jay Griffiths. With sea image by David Ellingsen.
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The Snake in the Margins

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Sylvia Linsteadt

is a writer and animal tracker who lives in the hills of Point Reyes, California, and on the Greek island of Crete. She is the author of the ecological fantasy The Stargold Chronicles (The Wild Folk and  The Wild Folk Rising ), published by Usborne in June 2018 and May 2019 and the novel Tatterdemalion (Unbound, Spring 2017) with artist Rima Staines.

Featured Section

Dark Kitchen

Edited by Charlotte Du Cann, Dark Kitchen is an ongoing exploration of the culture of food in times of fall. We travel through different kingdoms and terrains, sharpening our appetites and cooking knives, in the company of artists, filmmakers, writers and activists.

Salmon Island

By Cooking Sections
23rd September, 2020

Bread Not Gold

By Ian M
9th October, 2019

Plant Teachings

By Tamara Colchester
3rd April, 2019
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Dark Mountain: Issue 17

The Spring 2020 issue brings together essays. stories, poetry and artwork creating a new culture of restoration.

 

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