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HOT OFF THE PRESS! Dark Mountain: Issue 29, an uncivilised bestiary Celebrating our new spring anthology, the first issue we’ve devoted entirely to animals, now available in our shop. Check out the editorial and join us for the launch next Wednesday! darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/introducing-…

This week in our online edition - ‘La Nephew and the Volcán’, a post-cautionary tale from our Issue 4 archive offer this month. Read the full fiery tale here: darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/la-nephew-an…

MAY NEWS FROM THE MOUNTAIN! In this month’s newsletter - we look back at the publication of our Spring issue and launch event, alongside extracts in our online edition from the issue’s feathery, furred and finned pages. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/may-news-fro…

In the last of this series of extracts from our new Spring issue, Sylvia V. Linstead tells the story of Phaea and Henwen, two mythological sows, facing the violent ascendance of human beings. Accompanied by a papercut image from Johanna Lohrengel. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/the-sister-s…

Check out our new Spring issue! Plus a series of extracts from its feathered pages in our online edition, including an essay on ecophilospher Val Plumwood and a rescued wombat, Jaden McGinty’s story from the salmon rivers of Idaho, and many more. dark-mountain.net/product/dark-m…

The penultimate post in our series of previews of the new Spring issue is an extract from John Wetherell’s piece about finding affinity with animals through the prism of homelessness, accompanied by Maeve Fellerhoff’s shapeshifting image ‘Gloves’. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/boundary-wha…

A Dark Mountain Bestiary launch recording now live! Hear (and see) from writers and artists, plus editors from across the planet, and enter the 'wild deerness' of our new spring issue. Catch up on Vimeo, our website, or Facebook. Link: vimeo.com/1186308498

‘Throughout circumpolar prehistory/ people considered the bear sacred, ineffable, taboo –/ its real name was forbidden.’ Continuing our series of extracts from the new Spring issue, today we publish two poems by Kelly Shepherd and Diane Raptosh. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/two-poems-fr…

‘Animals are the obvious diplomats of the more-than-human world, because they have faces, with which we can lock eyes, and be called into empathy.’ From our new issue; Abi Andrews on ecophilospher Val Plumwood's relationship with Birubi the wombat. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/birubi

‘Let us start like this: there are three salmon dancing in the river.’ To celebrate the publication of our new issue, we bring you Jaden McGinty’s story from the salmon rivers of Idaho, accompanied by Cedra Wood’s portrait of a fishbone beast. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/five-salmon-…

In this month’s newsletter we celebrate our new spring anthology, Dark Mountain: Issue 29 – Bestiary. We also spotlight our bookshop offers, including a limited edition archive offer for Issue 4. Plus, the latest in our online edition. More here: darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/april-news-f…

‘What does one say to a whale who has seen and heard everything from the thunder of fossil-powered engines, explosive harpoons and atomic explosions, to worldwide radiation?’ Check out the latest cetacean deep dive by poet Sonja Swift. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/sing-an-ocea…

‘I ONCE DREAMT OF WHALES traversing stars, great galactic swimmers in bioluminescent darkness.’ In this week's post, writer and poet Sonja Swift interrogates the efforts to commodify whales as carbon offsets. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/sing-an-ocea…

Calling our East Anglian readers! Come and join us at a LANDSPEAKING WORKSHOP with @darkmtn co-director Charlotte Du Cann for Green Month at New Street Market, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Sun 26th April. Embodied practice for yourr local territory. Details at newstreetmarket.com

‘What might change if we were invited to sit still with the simple and yet troublingly profound idea that none of us has figured out how to live and none of us will?’ Mat Osmond celebrates Báyò Akómoláfés' new collection of micro-essays, 'Selah'. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/a-vaster-san…

ICYMI LAST DARK VERSES 'I tried to leave it behind. But salt cures. On the hands or in the heart'. Our #uncivilisedpoetics month ends with Michael McClane's deep & atmospheric intro to 'The Once and Future Lake' darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/the-land-sal… Lake extractions photo by Hikmet Sidney Loe

'The disconnect between these two worlds was acute’. Michael McLane introduces The Once and Future Lake, a collection of writings about the Great Salt Lake in his (droughted) native Utah, curated from his present home in (flooded) Aotearoa/New Zealand. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/the-land-sal…

Join us for the launch of Dark Mountain: Issue 29 – Bestiary. Meet contributors, editors and fellow readers on Wednesday 22nd April at 8pm BST. Tickets are free, but you’ll need to book a place on Eventbrite. Hope to see you there! dark-mountain.net/events/launch-…

In this month's newsletter: the launch event for our forthcoming Dark Mountain Issue 29 – Bestiary. We also spotlight our offer for Dark Mountain: Issue 17, plus network news and all the latest from our Uncivilised Poetics series in the online edition. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/spring-equin…

Do check out our spring archive offer for Dark Mountain: Issue 17 on the theme of restoration and renewal – there are limited copies of this popular issue available! Find out more about this colour collection of essays, stories, poetry and artwork here: darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/february-arc…