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...
Dark Verse
Berlin Billboard 8 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.
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...
Deep Waters: A Black Rain Rises
James Roberts
1st November, 2010
1. Dolphins hunt in the blue light running the sea tracks, click chant spears hurl,...
Deep Waters: Heebie-Jeebies
Cathy McGuire
24th September, 2010
Do you believe in oil plumes? Or global warming? Peak everything? A nation’s split, the...
Deep Waters: Burnt Umber
Em Strang
21st September, 2010
‘The Worker’ is painted in oil: the ingrain yarn of his hands, every fine line...
Deep Waters: Melancholia
Dan Grace
9th September, 2010
The skin of my mood is easily pierced. A dead bee splayed on a laminate...