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In the latest of our series of extracts from our new issue, we bring you Abi Andrews' essay on the intimate cohabitation between Australian ecophilospher Val Plumwood and Birubi, a rescued wombat. Accompanied by Ibby Lanfear's close-up portrait of a mole's foot.

Welcome to our new Spring anthology, the first issue we've devoted entitely to animals, now available in our online shop. Today we share the editorial and a glimpse of Amy Guidry's eye-catching cover image.

The Dark Mountain bookshop has a pair of stellar issues on offer this month.   Issue...

Head over to our new Substack edition showcasing some of the treasures in our collections of writing and art, alongside our weekly online edition

Fellow lichenologist and artist Nastassja Noell reviews 'The Lichen Musuem' by A. Laurie Palmer and its transdisciplinary approach to lichen biology, ecology and biomorphic patterns for equitable, thriving futures.

In the second selection from our new Issue 26: Dark Ocean, Savannah Pearson writes a letter to a 15th-century painter of ‘sumptuous’ still lives, highlighting the losses of the once-teeming ocean. With artwork from the issue by John Weeden.

Special summer offer! This summer we are offering a special sale price for two of our recent collections: 'Dark Mountain: Issue 21' and 'Issue 22 – ARK'. Don't miss!

To mark tomorrow's publication of 'The Bone Cave: a Journey Through Myth and Memory', Dark Mountain storyteller Dougie Strang describes two recent encounters with place, and with the stories that are held there.