Issue 16: REFUGE

Catrina Davies reflects on our perilous relationship with transport on an epic cycle across the badlands of Spain. From our anniversary issue 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.

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

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.

Our anniversary edition, Dark Mountain: Issue 16 - REFUGE, is a celebration of 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'.