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...
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.
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....
Repairing the Silent Spring
Jeppe Graugaard
17th October, 2013
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man...
Tracking Bobcats in California
Sylvia Linsteadt
12th November, 2012
In some places, her prints obscured the marks of human shoes with their feline roundness,...
Messages from the North
Ian Hill
12th October, 2012
At this time of year, the skies are filled with departures and arrivals. In the...
