grief

A heart-breaking valediction to California and the house of Robinson Jeffers from 'Dark Mountain: Issue 22 –ARK' by Neale Inglenook . With photographs by Robin V. Robinson.

'The future we expected has changed shape.' In a story originally written for our special issue ARK, Liz Jensen tells of staggering personal loss in the midst of the world's cascading crises. Her book about her biologist and activist son, Your Wild and Precious Life, is out this month. With an image by Angela Cockayne.

Writer and herbalist Frieda Kipar Bay tells of fleeing fire in California to follow the trail of migrating forests, in search of a safe haven for her family.

Laura B. Fox retells a leafy short story about environmental despair, personal grief, and idealised ways of living.

Hospice chaplain Weylyn Wolfe contemplates the final journey at a traffic intersection in Silicon Valley. With artwork by Wild Conspiracy in Minneapolis.

Call out for our next spring issue, an exciting new collaboration with art.earth and their summit, Borrowed Time: on death, dying and change

Nick Hunt brings you the third in our series of reflections on the coronavirus pandemic

Our series on 'The Vanishing' continues with a poem by Eric Nicholson, with an image by Beatrice Forshall

Our new section 'The Vanishing' continues with Rosamund Portus on artistic responses to the disappearance of bees.