ancestors



Speaking with the Ancestors
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and Ben Weaver
31st October, 2019
From our new Dark Mountain collection: two poems of return by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland and Ben Weaver. With deer drawing by Rebecca Clark

These Waters Are Patient
Samantha M Harvey
28th October, 2019
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.

Finding Our Way Home Again
David Pritchett
31st December, 2018
An essay by Dave Pritchett on wilderness, the rhetoric of progress and liberation ecology.

Numens, Ghosts and Fugitives
Sara Hudston
22nd January, 2018
I found the place dark and deeply rural; it was extremely beautiful and often inexplicable....

The Marked Ones
Kim Schnuelle
15th January, 2018
I was in Albuquerque killing time until my afternoon flight. I don’t know if you’ve...

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Steve Wheeler
4th December, 2017
‘Performance’ is the wrong word. Liminal was a promenade experience (the first devised by...

Dust and Bones
Daniel Nakanishi-Chalwin
2nd May, 2017
On Shintō, tantrism and death. Published in Dark Mountain: Issue 11.

The Oldest Tree in New York
Patrik Qvist
6th May, 2015
There is nothing spectacular about the trees and plants growing here; what is remarkable is...
Brink
Maeve Reilly
19th April, 2015
I see those smiling people and feel defeated by the accretion of violence and conquest....