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...
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.
‘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 —...
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...