The Fungus Among Us
Annekawilliams24
22nd February, 2023
This week scientist and writer Anneka Williams delves into the underground world of the largest organism, a pathogenic fungus stretching for miles in the soil of an Oregon forest.
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.
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.
The Promise of the Black Grouse
Monique Besten
8th September, 2021
Last in our present series of Other Kingdoms we bring you Monique Besten's elegy on the black grouse of her native Netherlands from Issue 19.
Beast Dreaming
Nicholas
25th August, 2021
Biologist Nicholas Wilkinson had never seen a living saola. And then the dilemma about saving this endangered antelope from extinction came into his dreams.
The Year of the Acorns
Jane Smith
18th August, 2021
In the first of three Other kingdoms posts, Jane Smith takes us on a Wounded Badger patrol into the English woods at night
Yuma
Laura Coleman
9th June, 2021
Laura Coleman's heartbreaking story about the burial of a puma beside the forest river she loved.
Will the Whales Inherit the Earth?
Rupert Read
7th April, 2021
For The Vanishing series, Rupert Read considers the future of human societies , following in the wake of whales. With artworks by Angela Cockayne.
Fine Particles of Brilliant Forests, Burning
Becca Rose Hall and Rosalie Chapple
14th September, 2020
As catastrophic fires continue to rage through West coast in the US and the wetlands of Brazil, a lament for the burning of wild lives of the forests in Washington and Australia.
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.