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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.

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.
Other KingdomsUnder the Canopy

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

Rannoch Wolves

Dougie Strang
27th December, 2018
In this short film, the Kairos Collective bring wolves back to Scotland.
Other Kingdoms

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

Helen Jukes
22nd August, 2018
An extract from Helen Jukes' new book about her journey to becoming an urban beekeeper.
Other Kingdoms

Toutouwai the Curious

Siana Fitzjohn
24th June, 2018
Other KingdomsThe Devil's Door

Kame

Stephen Prime
11th June, 2018
Other Kingdoms

Malaise Traps

Helen Jukes
27th November, 2017
Other Kingdoms

Squirrel

David Schuman
11th September, 2017
'People always tell you something bad is interesting when they don’t intend to do anything about it,’ she said. David Schuman's brilliant short story from the Dark Mountain collection 'Walking on Lava'. Passenger pigeon artwork by Emily Laurens
From Our BooksOther KingdomsWalking on Lava

Creating a Vessel

Richard Povall
30th August, 2017
I suppose I’m bothered by these simplifications of the functioning of the natural world –...
In Other TonguesOther Kingdoms

Ecologies of Meaning and Loss

Wendy Wheeler
25th August, 2017
Biosemiotics, which bridges the sciences and the humanities, is a new field of study and a new way of understanding the world.
In Other TonguesOther Kingdoms

Conjuring Yew Trees and Mountains

Christos Galanis
21st August, 2017
You, my friend, are alone, because We, with words and pointing fingers, gradually make the...
In Other TonguesOther Kingdoms

Badger Dissonance

Dougie Strang
7th August, 2017
My first was a roe deer on the A75. I’d passed it already but this...
In Other TonguesOther Kingdoms

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