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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.

The Details

Jay Ruzesky
8th November, 2016
JR: You have said, ‘Philosophy is thinking in love with clarity.’ Can you tell me...
Dark VerseFrom Our BooksIssue 10: Uncivilised Poetics

Seven Circles in the Book of Sharks

Rob Carney
4th November, 2016
The cousin of a shark is a manta ray; and the cousin of a manta...
Dark VerseFrom Our BooksIssue 10: Uncivilised PoeticsOther Kingdoms

No More Words for Snow

Nancy Campbell
29th October, 2016
And if the sun had not erased the tracks upon the ice, they would tell...
Dark VerseFrom Our BooksIssue 10: Uncivilised Poetics

The Scythe and the Slaughterer

Emma Must and Vahni Capildeo
24th October, 2016
You can no more lend a man your scythe than you can lend him your...
Dark VerseFrom Our BooksIssue 10: Uncivilised Poetics

The Persistence of Poetry and the Destruction of the World

Robert Bringhurst
21st October, 2016
But an inhabited world, with its own philosophical, artistic, scientific, and literary traditions, is not...
Dark VerseFrom Our BooksIssue 10: Uncivilised Poetics

Dark Mountain Issue 10: Uncivilised Poetics

The Editors
17th October, 2016
Dark VerseFrom Our BooksIssue 10: Uncivilised Poetics

The Height and the Drop

The Editors
25th June, 2016
Since the Dark Mountain Project was launched in October 2009, the distance between the height and...
Dark ThoughtsDark Verse

We Are All In This Together

Kim Goldberg and Jane Lovell
22nd April, 2016
Kim Goldberg has been contributing magical, otherworldly writing to Dark Mountain for some time now,...
Dark VerseFrom Our BooksIssue 9

Dark Mountain Poetics: An Invitation to Contribute to Issue 10

The Editors
16th March, 2016
It’s not that poetry has a specific role to play in changing society or in...
Call outsDark VerseNews

The Green Cathedral

Benjamin Myers
8th July, 2015
It is a phrase I find myself returning to and which, over thousands of miles...
Dark VerseUncivilised Arts

Choosing Living Over Life

David Slattery
20th May, 2015
For Kate Liminal Scrim In the morning, to the deeply resonant sound of the Vedas,...
Dark Verse

Sailing for Mares

Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
25th April, 2015
I. By dusk, our ships had filled with stallions. They shimmered like wind under moonlight...
Dark VerseFrom Our BooksIssue 7

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