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From our new Dark Mountain collection: two poems of return by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and Ben Weaver. With deer drawing by Rebecca Clark

From our new issue, REFUGE Samantha M Harvey stands at a New York City window, holding her daughter, and looks back and forwards in deep time. With ancestral painting by Kate Walters.

An essay by Dave Pritchett on wilderness, the rhetoric of progress and liberation ecology.

I found the place dark and deeply rural; it was extremely beautiful and often inexplicable....

I was in Albuquerque killing time until my afternoon flight. I don’t know if you’ve...

  ‘Performance’ is the wrong word. Liminal was a promenade experience (the first devised by...

On Shintō, tantrism and death. Published in Dark Mountain: Issue 11.

There is nothing spectacular about the trees and plants growing here; what is remarkable is...

I see those smiling people and feel defeated by the accretion of violence and conquest....