Since 2009, Dark Mountain has held the testimonies of writers and artists to how it feels in our hearts to bear witness to the collapse of the world as we once knew it. Now, in 2026, as our biannual book production is drawing to a close, we are celebrating the launch of our last issue.
For the final book in this 16-year series, we reached out to some of the people who have written for, edited and shaped Dark Mountain over the years, inviting them to send work on the theme of ‘endings’. Between endpapers – created from the astonishing blue of foraged vivianite – are meditations on what it means for things to end: from a story about a hospice nurse and a requiem for the IPCC Report to the writings of the last scribe, entombed among his books, hearing the siren voices of the barbarians outside the walls.
As always in our books. the more-than-human leaves its tracks across our pages: a speaking glacier, a trusting toad, a prophetic oak, galloping horses, millions of hornets, fig leaves, hawks, grizzly bears, Californian gulls, ancestral grasslands, and, of course, mountains.
You are warmly invited to follow in their path and join us online for readings and an art show from the book’s contributors and editors, and to raise a glass to the last in this series of Dark Mountain books – and also, to find out where the project is going in the future.
Hope to see you there!
Tickets are free, but you’ll need to book a place on Eventbrite. A Zoom link will be sent two days before the event.
(image credit) Final Voyage by Angela Cockayne (From Issue 30)