poetry

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.

Happy New Year and welcome to our archive month: we begin with two striking poems that face the storm by Craig Czury and Nina Pick, chosen by Mark Watson. With artwork by Rebecca Riley.

Poems from our recently launched ARK: Theophilus Kwek and Michael Guida apply their sharp poetic eye to the more-than-human worlds of insects, reptiles and song birds in times of extinction. With artwork by Lousia Crispin.

'Post-Arctic melodies, minor key lament-lullabies for all that has been lost to time and modernity' Three poems by Stinne Storm on her return to Denmark from Greenland..

Two startling visceral poems from Dark Mountain: Issue 21 by Joel Long and Finn Haunch, with embodied artwork by Gustaf Broms

For our final post from the archive: poetry editor Cate Chapman selects a trio of liminal poems from past collections. With mezzotint by Sarah Gillespie from The Moth Project

A story of California rock and flame: Nicholas Triolo juxtaposes the tale of a narrow escape from the devastating Paradise wild fire, with the life and work of the poet Robinson Jeffers

Extract from our autumn Issue 20 – ABYSS: poets Bhanu Kapil and Claire Wahmanholm stand in the dark and bear witness to an enduring crown and collapsing glacier. With artwork by Basia Irland.

Three poems from our 'requiem' collection Issue 19 that voice what remains when houses and hives are abandoned by the living. With ceremonial artwork by Jim Carter.

Dom Bury introduces his first poetry collection 'Rite of Passage', an initiation journey into the shadow of man's disjointed relationship with the Earth.

Continuing this week with a selection from the pages of our new issue, we bring you an essay on mourning and regenerative culture by Mat Osmond With ancestral tree artwork by Kate Walters.