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.

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...