Other Kingdoms

Dougie Strang in 'Badger Dissonance', In Other Tonuges, Dartington (photo: Em Strang)

‘Uncivilised writing … sets out to paint a picture of homo sapiens which a being from another world or, better, a being from our own – a blue whale, an albatross, a mountain hare – might recognise as something approaching a truth.’

Dark Mountain began with a call for writing that gives voice to the more-than-human. The writers in this section have taken up that call.

Snails

Salena Godden
8th November, 2022
Writer Salena Godden battles with snails and against the odds creates a jewel garden in the dark hour of the pandemic. Then learns that the voracious creatures were not in fact the enemy but her mysterious allies.
Other KingdomsOutbreak

The Beholding Eye

Jane Lovell
8th September, 2020
In the first of two pieces about landscape and perception, Jane Lovell explores geographer W.S Meinig's work on the ways we look at and have relationship with the land – from Cambridgeshire fields to a devastated Kent orchard to a 'wild' Sussex estuary.
Other KingdomsWild Words