
Issue 9
Work from our ninth anthology, published in spring 2016.


The Loss of Function
Andrea Hejlskov
11th January, 2023
Second post in our new year archive series is a forest encounter with the ancestors by Danish mythteller Andrea Hejlskov, chosen by Dark Mountain artist and maker Caroline Ross. From Issue 9.

Picnic with Sheep
Leonie van der Plas
5th January, 2022
First in our archive month: Picnic with Sheep, an 'in the field' art project by Leonie van der Plas, chosen by Ava Osbiston, from spring 2016.

Whalebone & Crabshell
Zedeck Siew
27th January, 2021
For our third post from the archive,, Steve Wheeler chooses Zedeck Siew's migration fable, 'Whalebone & Crabshell' first published in spring 2015. Illustrations by Sharon Chin

Parable del Payaso
Nadia Lucia Peralta
29th April, 2016
The night before was chaotic, and the owl who sits in the church arches stared down...

Learning Carefully from the Sea
Brett Bloom
26th April, 2016
In these workshops in Finland we explored various kinds of exercises together and then discussed...

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,...

A Distant Tower
Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick
19th April, 2016
from ‘100 Stories of the Drowning World’ The station (if I might dignify it so)...

3 Haibun
Kim Goldberg
16th April, 2016
Opening Act sometimes a whisper is just the sea destroying itself on the beach ...

Dark Mountain: Issue 9
The Editors
15th April, 2016
The Humbling Humbleness is the most unfashionable of virtues. We are continually exhorted by late-capitalist...
