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The Life Cycle
Katerawles
25th August, 2023
Beginning in 2017, Kate Rawles traversed South America along the spine of the Andes, In today's post she outlines the journey and the mindset of extractivism that besets the extraordinary lands she travelled through.

Submissions call for Dark Mountain: Issue 25
The Editors
16th August, 2023
Submissions are now open for Dark Mountain's 25th issue, a book that explores land rights, and wrongs, in an age of climate breakdown

Preparing the Ground
Jonny Randall
9th August, 2023
Final post in this Dark Kitchen online sister series running alongside our latest book, Jonny Randall draws connections between bodily and planetary health, exploring restorative practices not only for our individual bodies but the soil we all depend on.

This Is Where They Make Meat
Joanna Pocock
2nd August, 2023
Latest post in our Dark Kitchen series is an extract from 'Greyhound', a current work in progress by Joanna Pocock, as she travels through the land of industrial beef production in the Texas panhandle.
Submissions call for Dark Mountain: Issue 25
Submissions are now open for Dark Mountain's 25th issue, a book that explores land rights, and wrongs, in an age of climate breakdown
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Welcome to Dark Mountain: Issue 23 – Dark Kitchen!
The Editors
17th April, 2023
Our new spring issue, an assemblage of writing and art that investigates food and food culture in times of collapse.


The Lunatical
Ceda Parkinson
4th May, 2022
From Issue 21: Ceda Parkinson's short story about a disastrous orbital confluence, with artwork by Sarah Misselbrook
Featured Section

The Vanishing
We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. In this section we seek responses not only to the deaths of entire species, but to the quieter extirpations, losses and disappearances that are steadily stripping our world of its complexity and beauty. How do we, as writers and artists, stay human during such times?
Last Summer Pearls
30th August, 2023
The Lestrygonians
1st May, 2023
Extinction is Loneliness
6th July, 2022

Dark Mountain: Issue 23 – Dark Kitchen
The Spring issue 2023 is set around our Dark Kitchen table where writers, artists and cooks explore food culture in a time of unravelling