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.
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
Creating a Vessel
Richard Povall
30th August, 2017
I suppose I’m bothered by these simplifications of the functioning of the natural world –...
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.
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...
‘There’s Something Wrong With the Bees’
Carrie Foulkes
19th June, 2017
The form of an organism – and its relationship to the space around it –...
Remembrance for Lost Species: Why Do We Need To?
Abi Nielsen
29th November, 2016
Recently I was talking to a friend about an event in commemoration of species now extinct....
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 —...