Summer Bookshelf Offers
The Dark Mountain Project
2nd July, 2026
Issue 26: Dark Ocean Dark Ocean is a collection of essays, stories, artwork and poetry,...
Becoming Human
Rock art by Caroline Ross (for cover of Issue 13)
‘Sometimes, it is necessary to return to the body, to emotion, or to the still waters of the deep psyche, in order to remember what it means to be human’. From forest and river encounters to meditations on time, Becoming Human explores the physical, psychological and experiential aspects of our current predicament and how we might realign our bodies and minds with the living systems.
Wanderings in the Himalayas
Rucha Virmani
22nd November, 2023
'In the city, away from the forests and stars, we were so eager to become that we forgot how to be.' Today poet and youth activist Rucha Virmani tells of returning home to the Himalayan landscape in the midst of high-speed modernity and extractivist damage.
After Apocalypse
David Pritchett
21st June, 2023
Today we bring you an excerpt from the new collection of essays, Mossback, by David Michael Pritchett, who looks for ways to resist empire and heal our cultural wounds by immersing himself in the murky waters of our living world. Introduced by Neale Inglenook.
On Water and Failure
Andrew F Giles
12th May, 2021
Permaculture farmer, Andrew F. Giles explores queer ecology, fieldwork and flexibility among the mountains in Spain during a time of ecological crisis
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.
What’s Possible
Akshay Ahuja
14th May, 2020
Akshay Ahuja interviews the writer and activist, Charles Eisenstein about how we might navigate a radical shift in our inner and outer worlds.