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.

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

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