encounter

In April of this year, the path of a total solar eclipse swept very close to the home of writer and Dark Mountain editor Neale Inglenook. Here he recounts the experience of stepping into the shadow of a planetary body and feeling the direct contact with a presence outside our world.

Francesca Schmidt reflects on winter traditions, and the significance of ritual, from the Czech-German borderlands.

In an excerpt from Dark Mountain: Issue 14 – TERRA, Oana Sanziana Marian writes of the Romanian-Bulgarian border.

Our 'Under the Canopy' section continues with Henrik Dahle's quest to climb a different tree every day for a year.

Dark Mountain co-founder Paul Kingsnorth introduces his new poetry collection from the wilds of Patagonia.

The connection that really mattered to me in writing Mountain Calls is with the last...

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

Despite being moved by the wind in this way I did not grow up to...

You, my friend, are alone, because We, with words and pointing fingers, gradually make the...

At dusk, these red jar lanterns were borne here by fifty curious people, out of...

My second novel, Beast, was published this week by Faber and Faber. It’s the story of a...

In these workshops in Finland we explored various kinds of exercises together and then discussed...