language

Today, from the pages of Dark Mountain: Issue 25, an excerpt from Susan Raffo's essay on the aliveness of the land and the language that it speaks.

From Issue 25, we bring you Damian Le Bas's piece about how moving to the city severed him from his Romani language, and how urban landscapes gave him a hybrid tongue.

Final extract from our latest issue: Micheál Mac Gearailt weaves sensuality, ancient language, and dystopian present in a tale of activism against the Irish forestry industry. With images by William Bock.

Fourth post in Lost Lexicon series in run up to Remembrance of Lost Species Day: Bridget McKenzie, examines the ways people use words for the presence - and disappearance - of species  

Third post in our Lost Lexicon series: an extract from an artist book by Nancy Campbell, set in the Arctic, where the Greenlandic language is disappearing with the ice in the wake of climate change.

Second post the new series, Lost Lexicon is a short story by Nick Hunt, set in a damaged future world where words – locked away for years – are starting to re-emerge from deep beneath the earth. Image by Kahn & Selesnick.

In this months'a new series, Lost Lexicon, Charlotte Du Cann speaks with Paul Kingsnorth about forging a language that can speak with the more-than-human world. With artwork by Katie Ione Craney.

Charlotte Du Cann writes of the Underworld, mythos and Deep Adaptation

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

And if the sun had not erased the tracks upon the ice, they would tell...

This is not a new idea. The Buddha taught about the importance of right speech,...