Dark Verse
Billboard 8 - Berlin by Robert Montgomery (Issue 10: Uncivilised Poetics)
There’s been poetry at the heart of Dark Mountain from its beginnings. The name itself is taken from a line of Robinson Jeffers.
Many members of the editorial team who have been responsible for the Dark Mountain books are also poets, including Cate Chapman, Michael McClane and Em Strang.
In this section, you can get a taste of the uncivilised poetics for which we have sought to create a home.
Heading South from Disko Island
Stinne Storm
2nd August, 2022
'Post-Arctic melodies, minor key lament-lullabies for all that has been lost to time and modernity' Three poems by Stinne Storm on her return to Denmark from Greenland..
The Nameless Are In Me
Finn Haunch and Joel Long
26th April, 2022
Two startling visceral poems from Dark Mountain: Issue 21 by Joel Long and Finn Haunch, with embodied artwork by Gustaf Broms
Of Becoming and Uncertainty
Cate Chapman
27th January, 2022
For our final post from the archive: poetry editor Cate Chapman selects a trio of liminal poems from past collections. With mezzotint by Sarah Gillespie from The Moth Project
Agony and Endurance
Nicholas Triolo
24th November, 2021
A story of California rock and flame: Nicholas Triolo juxtaposes the tale of a narrow escape from the devastating Paradise wild fire, with the life and work of the poet Robinson Jeffers
The Diamond and the Glacier
Bhanu Kapil and Claire Wahmanholm
29th October, 2021
Extract from our autumn Issue 20 – ABYSS: poets Bhanu Kapil and Claire Wahmanholm stand in the dark and bear witness to an enduring crown and collapsing glacier. With artwork by Basia Irland.
If At Night Termites Tick Like Time In Our Bones*
Sharon Black Fawzia Kane and Michael McLane
26th April, 2021
Three poems from our 'requiem' collection Issue 19 that voice what remains when houses and hives are abandoned by the living. With ceremonial artwork by Jim Carter.
Rite of Passage
Dom Bury
12th April, 2021
Dom Bury introduces his first poetry collection 'Rite of Passage', an initiation journey into the shadow of man's disjointed relationship with the Earth.
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
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
The Heart and Other Poems
Mat Osmond
14th October, 2019
Introducing this autumnn's Featured Mountaineer: a selection of poems by writer and illustrator Mat Osmond, who has contributed to Dark Mountain since 2009
