loss

Two searing poems of loss and heartbreak from our new spring issue

On the destruction of home and habitat at the tail end of civilisation

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.

We begin 'The Vanishing', our new section about extinction and loss, with words and images about disappearing house martins by Emma Tuck.

An essay by Mary Paterson on displacements caused by war and gentrification.

Peter Metelerkamp explores the ruins of 'Settler' culture in South Africa.

Of what use is the novel during the sixth great extinction?

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

Brown bears wear the trail smooth all summer and fall, seeking sockeye, pinks, and cohos,...

'People always tell you something bad is interesting when they don’t intend to do anything about it,’ she said. David Schuman's brilliant short story from the Dark Mountain collection 'Walking on Lava'. Passenger pigeon artwork by Emily Laurens

Aldo Leopold, 1947, writing after the unveiling of a statue dedicated to the memory of...