A Wild Compliance
Ben Weaver
26th December, 2017
all over the kitchen floor whose braids are hollowing my spirit of its untruths the...
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.
Living in the Borderlands
David Taylor
16th October, 2017
Most days I too drive the few miles to my workspace in the nearby town....
Radicle and Rhizomati
Lisa Fazio
17th May, 2017
Hierarchy Before capitalism, many of us who have descended from the nations of Europe have...
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...
Learning Carefully from the Sea
Brett Bloom
26th April, 2016
In these workshops in Finland we explored various kinds of exercises together and then discussed...
Doug Tompkins Remembered
Paul Kingsnorth
16th December, 2015
Between them, Doug and Kris Tompkins spent the last 25 years working on one of...
Dancing the Cailleach
Charlotte Du Cann
2nd December, 2015
I am holding a copy of the Eastern Daily Press where the story has just...
Our Footprints on the Earth
Ilira Walker
5th August, 2015
I began working in the environmental movement in the late ’90s, and spent many years...
Fàd a’ Chaorain
Dougie Strang
29th July, 2015
I became disorientated, clinging to my seat while at the same time floundering out on...
Rivershift
Tim Fox
6th April, 2015
This mightiest of rivers was born from the collapse of the glacial dam that had...