land

'In the city, away from the forests and stars, we were so eager to become that we forgot how to be.' Today poet and youth activist Rucha Virmani tells of returning home to the Himalayan landscape in the midst of high-speed modernity and extractivist damage.

In this excerpt from Dark Mountain: Issue 14 – TERRA, Juman Simaan writes about how the erasure of Palestinian fellahi (peasant) culture meets unarmed resistance in the concept of ‘Awna, a unique sense of belonging to land, community and history

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.

First of a trio of pieces on wildfires: artist Amory Abbott reports from smoke-shrouded Vancouver, with an introduction to his co-edited creative journal 'Fire Season'

Submissions are now open for Dark Mountain's 25th issue, a book that explores land rights, and wrongs, in an age of climate breakdown

For our first Dark Kitchen dish: Simeon Ayres and Kate Long tell a heartening tale about baking sourdough loaves for their pandemic-struck hill community in Australia. With foraging and fermentation artwork by Pascal Baudar.

In the wake of COP27, James Roberts drives a scenic route down the Elan Valley in Wales into a poisoned landscape that holds the untold stories of a people who once toiled there.

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.

Matt Sowerby contemplates the complicated legacies of John Ruskin and J. M. W. Turner in his home town, as Ruskin's View crumbles into the River Lune. Third in our series on land, culture and time.