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Axes for the Frozen Sea

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Decolonising Sleep

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The Happiness Problem

by Sam Wren-Lewis 06.02.20

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‘Our Spirits Die When They Die’

Nina Pick

3rd February, 2020

Dark Thoughts

The Alien and the Magic Rabbit

Siana Fitzjohn

29th January, 2020

Latest in our Becoming Human series, Siana Fitzjohn tells the tale of how a relationship with a fellow creature healed a dark encounter of the human kind.

Becoming Human

The Way Back to the Wilderness Within

Max St John

22nd January, 2020

In the second round of our series Becoming Human, Max St John tells the story of his journey back to the wild through the Daoist body practice Nei Gong

Becoming Human Life writing

Paradise Haunts

Catrina Davies

16th January, 2020

Life writing

How We Walk Through the Fire

The Dark Mountain Project

13th January, 2020

Join us this spring for a weekend of talks, discussions, performances, workshops and other happenings – and the launch of Issue 17.

On Gathering Uncivilised Arts

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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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

These Waters Are Patient

Samantha M Harvey

28th October, 2019

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.

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.

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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