Issue 23

The summer the visitors flock from the cities to the sandy lands: the children run...

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

For our final 'taster' from the new issue, no 23: Antonia Bertucci explores the sacrificial implications of Christianity and breastfeeding, and misogynistic taboos about the female body. With sporescape image by Nick Jordan.

In our fourth taster from our new issue, Dark Kitchen:, novelist Gregory Norminton serves up a deliciously dark short story about an exclusive dining club that is soon to have a taste of its own medicine. Menu illustrated by Graeme Walker.

In our third Dark Kitchen post, poets Nickole Brown and Emily Hasler serve up disconcerting dishes from the realms of fairy tales and rural Kentucky. With artwork by Peter Cameron and Superflux.