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 Em Strang, Sophie McKeand and Adrienne Odasso.
In this section, you can get a taste of the uncivilised poetics for which we have sought to create a home.
A Letter from Death Valley, an Elegy from the Future
Mike Cipra and Emily Stoddard
25th April, 2019
Two searing poems of loss and heartbreak from our new spring issue
Environmental Studies
Rob Carney
29th August, 2018
In the Beginning Was a River But back in March something happened there that keeps...
The Secret Opinions of Rivers
Paul Kingsnorth
16th May, 2018
Dark Mountain co-founder Paul Kingsnorth introduces his new poetry collection from the wilds of Patagonia.
The Desert and the Sea
Natalie Young and Mark Rutter
24th April, 2018
Poems from Natalie Young and Mark Rutter, accompanied by images from Robin V. Robinson's photographic series Surfacing.
A Wild Compliance
Ben Weaver
26th December, 2017
all over the kitchen floor whose braids are hollowing my spirit of its untruths the...
Two Poems from Issue 11
Anne Haven McDonnell and Eleanor Hooker
28th April, 2017
Predators Anne Haven McDonnell A scream is made to cut through the mind’s fog, all...