Wild Words

Bristlecone Pine by Eric Utne from his essay, Visonfast (Issue 7)

Dark Mountain started with a manifesto calling for ‘uncivilised’ writing to push the boundaries of established and accepted literary forms and reflect the realities of our times more honestly.

If the world is in need of rewilding, this extends beyond the outer landscapes and into our domesticated souls.  The writers in this section go looking for wildness with their words.

Landscapes of Wilderness

Narendra
7th August, 2024
We are delighted to share three excerpts from Narendra's latest book, which draws upon his conversations, observations and ethnographic notes made during his stay with the adivasis in Abujhmad and Bastar over thirty-three years, and his deep association with his childhood village in the plains of North India.
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The Beholding Eye

Jane Lovell
8th September, 2020
In the first of two pieces about landscape and perception, Jane Lovell explores geographer W.S Meinig's work on the ways we look at and have relationship with the land – from Cambridgeshire fields to a devastated Kent orchard to a 'wild' Sussex estuary.
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