Issue 13

'Why do you want to live in this world, here in this time and place? By the time you are 30 you may live a daily catastrophe beyond my ability to imagine. You may live on a hot, drought-stricken Earth as countries battle over what is left of its water. You may mourn the loss of the last animal species.' Nina Pick's letter to her unborn child. from Dark Mountain: Issue 13

Poems from Natalie Young and Mark Rutter, accompanied by images from Robin V. Robinson's photographic series Surfacing.

Dark Mountain editor Tom Smith interviews author and geographer Alastair Bonnett about nostalgia in an age of ecocide.

Artist and forager Caroline Ross tells the story of how she created the rock painting used for the cover of Dark Mountan: Issue 13.

At Deception Pond small fish believe they are giants, titans of the deep...

three men by the corndog cart take to the sky as crows...

Read the editorial that introduces Dark Mountain: Issue 13.

Cate Chapman (currently Coventry Canal, England). Itinerant boat-dweller, sock-knitter, freelance copy-editor, co-director of the Ecological...