DarkMountainProject

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Today our full-colour autumn special issue on ‘uncivilised art’ is published! Get your free ticket (link on our website) for the online launch of Issue 28 on Tuesday 21st October at 7:30pm BST. Hope to see you there! dark-mountain.net/product/dark-m…

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…

‘Put simply, this good Earth is being killed off, piece by piece, and I refuse to stand by and do nothing about it.’ The tale of how The Hellbender Gathering of Poets began, by Nickole Brown – a story of storms, salamanders and the persistence of poets. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/a-story-in-t…

'Can the environment survive without the language? Can the language survive without the environment?' This week's post from Nancy Campbell is set in the Arctic, where the Greenlandic language is disappearing with the ice in the wake of climate change. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/how-to-say-i…

Though the recent in boom genre of Nature Writing might reflect a genuine yearning in our culture, it’s hard to escape the sense that it’s just another consumer trend. Read 'No Nature Poems Please', from Issue 10: Uncivilised Poetics, by Rob Lewis: darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/no-nature-po…

NEW ARCHIVE OFFER! Dark Mountain: Issue 17 on restoration and renewal As with all Dark Mountain books, especially back issues, there are limited copies available, so do grab yourself a copy while it’s hot — Issue 17 was one of our most popular issues! dark-mountain.net/product/dark-m…

FEBRUARY NEWS: a new archive offer for Dark Mountain: Issue 17 on the theme of ‘restoration and renewal’ (limited copies!), The Plant Pamphlets PDF now in our shop, plus the latest from our Substack edition, featuring uncivilised plant people and poems… darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/february-new…

‘It’s already over, she adds. The shortages haven’t yet come, but they will.  And so the table grows quiet’ – from ‘Persimmons’ by Nikole Brown (Issue 17) Our online latest; a selection of poems ‘on the edge of time’ from this winter’s archive issues. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/poetry-on-th…

POETRY ON THE EDGE OF TIME This week three poems usher us into the liminal territory Dark Mountain has been charting in this era of calamity: a swim towards deeper time, a more-than-human encounter, and an existential moment at a Thanksgiving dinner. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/poetry-on-th…

The Plant Pamphlets by Dark Mountain’s much missed Mark Watson is now available as a PDF in our online shop! A booklet filled with the smells and flavours of some of Mark’s beloved plant companions, from Foxglove, English Oak to Mexican Marigold. dark-mountain.net/product/the-pl…

In celebration of the first emerging shoots of the green world and the PDF publication of The Plant Pamphlets, we are republishing a conversation with Eva Bakkeslett about roots, fermentation and the dynamic partnership between food and human culture. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/plant-people

TOUGH TIMES FOR WANDERING LUDDITES ‘... it’s like seizing a thunderstorm by the mane’. ‘Deindustrial fiction’ editor Nathanael Bonnell hops aboard a moving car in Portland without a cell phone in this week's post: darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/tough-times-…

NEW YEAR LATEST FROM THE MOUNTAIN Do check out our January newsletter, including this month’s archive offer, Issue 13, a collection of prose, poetry and artwork that explores what it means to be human in a world of dissolving boundaries (1 copy left!) darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/new-year-new…

JANUARY ARCHIVE OFFER The thirteenth Dark Mountain book focuses on what ‘being human’ might mean in an age of rapid ecological and social change. Get your copy from our online shop (a very limited number available!): dark-mountain.net/product/issue-…

Lara-Lane Plambeck describes her efforts, with the artist collective RE-PEAT, to create alternative maps and unearth more embedded ways of seeing endangered peatlands. ‘How can I find my more-than-human peatland relatives if I can’t see them?' darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/of-hidden-fu…

'Could anything matter less than the toothless agreements that emerge from these fiascos, leaving us in ruins after three decades of abject failure?' Filmmaker Josh Appinangesi ventures into ‘a towering citadel-colony of glass and steel’ for COP28. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/on-colossal-…

Armed with a selfie-stick and troubling questions, filmmaker Josh Appinangesi walks into the citadel of Dubai as the planetary conference (COP28) begins. Read 'On Colossal Wrecks' in this week's online edition: darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/on-colossal-…

New year greetings all! A reminder that the Dark Mountain bookshop has two stellar issues on offer until the end of January – check out Issue 23: Dark Kitchen and Issue 21 on the theme of 'confluence' here (limited copies available): dark-mountain.net/books

THE ANNALS OF THE SHEMSU-HOR ‘What would happen if we saw each beginning as an end, each culture as a relic, each seed as a star, each end as a possible beginning?’ darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/the-annals-o…

Issue 23 – Dark Kitchen (currently on offer!) head chef, Charlotte Du Cann, goes into the field to report on the mythic bargain between the wild and arable lands, and the consequences of our forgetting it in a sugar-coated modern world. darkmountainproject.substack.com/p/sea-beet-sug…