Sick
Cate Chapman
7th October, 2020
For our Becoming Human series, poet and editor Cate Chapman writes about the parallels between navigating long-term illness and a planet and a people in crisis.
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Riders on the Wolf
Dougald Hine
30th September, 2020
Our perception of climate change is often blinkered by scientific data and statistics. Dougald Hine reviews two books that delve into the kind of lexicon and attention demanded in an age of catastrophe.
Salmon Island
Cooking Sections
23rd September, 2020
On this month's Dark Kitchen table: artist duo Cooking Sections' CLIMAVORE project on the island of Skye and an extract from their 'island book' 'Salmon - A Red Herring'
Watching the World Outside My Door
Rob Carney and Samantha Clark
17th September, 2020
Two penetrating glimpses into the wild world in times of calamity: Rob Carney's juxtaposition of the poetic and the political observing a hawk and squirrel in the US; Samantha Clark's lockdown contemplation of loss and stillness by a loch on a grey day on Orkney.
Fine Particles of Brilliant Forests, Burning
Becca Rose Hall and Rosalie Chapple
14th September, 2020
As catastrophic fires continue to rage through West coast in the US and the wetlands of Brazil, a lament for the burning of wild lives of the forests in Washington and Australia.
Requiem – a call for submissions for Issue 19
Call out for our next spring issue, an exciting new collaboration with art.earth and their summit, Borrowed Time: on death, dying and change
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The Thing I Most Want to Remember
Nickole Brown and Monika Kostera
23rd April, 2020
Today from our new collection, we bring you two poems of celebration and lament by Nikole Brown and Monika Kostera, with artwork by Jordan Tierney
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
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Sea-change
A series that looks at the changing fate of the world’s oceans and how we can respond as artists, writers and feeling human beings. An exploration of the beauty and the crises of the sea through fiction, art, photography, poetry and memoir.
Dark Mountain: Issue 18 – FABULA
The Autumn 2020 issue is dedicated entirely to fiction, featuring short stories, illustrations and colour artwork