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
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.
Sailing for Mares
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
25th April, 2015
I. By dusk, our ships had filled with stallions. They shimmered like wind under moonlight...
Flux
Daniel Nakanishi-Chalwin
13th April, 2015
A poem by Daniel Nakanishi-Chalwin, originally published in Dark Mountain: Issue 7.
The Wrong Side of Seeing
Paul and Daniel Cantagallo
6th December, 2014
What lies between our origin and our destination? Rushing from Point A to Point...
The Wolves and the Ferryman
Kim Moore
25th October, 2014
How Wolves Change Rivers By singing to the moon, when the beavers move in, by...
Lines of Flight
Emily Wilkinson and Jeppe Dyrendom Graugaard
23rd July, 2014
Having had an inkling to work together without a clear idea of how or on...
Sky Burial
Daniel Lenaghan
7th March, 2014
We cut off his fingers Joint by joint and then at the wrist as well...
In Sips
Sonia Gurdjieff
17th January, 2014
Bonfires, hair, rain. The smells that make memory, what do mobile phones smell of? Footprints...
Timezones: RHI
Sophie McKeand
20th November, 2013
(the road not taken) nnnnnnnggggnnnnn For she was beautiful – her beauty made mmmmmmmmmmmmmThe bright...
The Song of the Secret Name of Doofus the Third
John Rember
14th December, 2012
[inscribed on clay tiles discovered by crop gleaners in a ravine outside of the Mount...