Poor Dumb Bastards
Eric Robertson
4th November, 2019
Today, a visceral story of collapse by Eric Robertson, set in a feral pasture in Utah. With image by performance artist Robert Leaver from his series 'Man Down'.
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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
These Waters Are Patient
Samantha M Harvey
28th October, 2019
Today from our new issue, REFUGE Samantha M Harvey stands at a New York City window, holding her daughter, and looks back and forwards in deep time. With ancestral painting by Kate Walters.
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
Coral
Jay Griffiths
21st October, 2019
From our new 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.
Conversations in the Dark
Immersive performance/workshop in Macclesfield, Cheshire Saturday 30th November
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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'.
Coral
Jay Griffiths
21st October, 2019
From our new 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.
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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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.
Chasing the Ghosts of Tigers
31st August, 2019
Shadowland
10th July, 2019
The Sounds of Silence
16th May, 2019
Dark Mountain: Issue 16 – REFUGE
The Autumn 2019 issue is a tenth anniversary collection celebrating a decade of uncivilised writing and art