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.
Answering the Call of the Wild Spadefoots
Albert Vetere Lannon
19th September, 2016
The Sonoran Desert gets some rain in the winter, and monsoon storms in the summer....
Last, or Earworms in the Wilderness
Shelah Horvitz
5th September, 2016
Edges are where things get interesting. They are where transitions happen — or don’t happen —...
Congregation, Total Chaos and Greed
Joanna Pocock
2nd July, 2016
After about an hour, we park up in the Lamar Valley behind half a dozen...
Becoming Real by Becoming a Beast
Charles Foster
2nd March, 2016
I was sitting on an island with a well-known Greek poet who harrumphed dismissively into...
Pod Tune
Harold Linde
30th September, 2015
My favourite was the original Star Trek. It shaped the way I looked at...
The Persistent Hope
John Jacobi
13th December, 2014
This is a clear example of nature biting back. Obviously the sharks aren’t conscious agents of...
On the centenary of the death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon
Persephone Pearl
29th November, 2014
Aldo Leopold, 1947, writing after the unveiling of a statue dedicated to the memory of...
Animal Encounters
Laura Coleman
15th November, 2014
Her name was Wayra. Her mother had most likely been shot by hunters and she...
Otterhead
Tom Maringer
7th August, 2014
The sound creates a vision, and we see a circle of men, women and children...
Deep Time: Finding Old Tjikko
Patrik Qvist
18th June, 2014
Trees evoke an emotional response in us city-dwellers, particularly when they are being threatened. A lot...
Black Spider
Simeon Ayres
11th June, 2014
On a day like this it is inevitable that at some time fire will start....