Issue 16: REFUGE

In this months'a new series, Lost Lexicon, Charlotte Du Cann speaks with Paul Kingsnorth about forging a language that can speak with the more-than-human world. With artwork by Katie Ione Craney.

Today, a visceral story of collapse by Eric Robertson, set in a feral pasture in Utah. With image by performance artist Robert Leaver from his series 'Man Down'.

From our new Dark Mountain collection: two poems of return by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and Ben Weaver. With deer drawing by Rebecca Clark

Today from our new issue, REFUGE Samantha M Harvey stands at a New York City window, holding her daughter, and looks back and forwards in deep time. With ancestral painting by Kate Walters.

From Dark Mountain 16 - REFUGE: Akshay Ahuja grapples with honeysuckle and other 'monsters' in times of ecological fall. With forest painting by Kate Williamson

From our new anniversary edition Dark Mountain: Issue 16 - REFUGE: a lament for the disappearing beauty of the coral reef by Jay Griffiths. With sea image by David Ellingsen.

Just published! Our anniversary edition, Dark Mountain: Issue 16 - REFUGE, celebrating ten years of uncivilised writing and art 'The search for a lexicon that not only explores the existential crisis we share, but also ... a deeper story about being human'.