DARK MOUNTAIN: ISSUE 27 LAUNCHES!. Our latest issue is a hardback anthology of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, interviews and artwork that explores bodies in all their forms; human, creaturely, plant and mineral. Read the editorial and get yourself a copy:

Our latest post is by Mat Osmond on walking away from ‘the culture of uncare’, juxtaposing Ursula le Guin’s dilemma tale, ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, with the West’s involvement with Gaza.

Calling Mountaineers in Denmark!. This August, Charlotte Du Cann will be asking: How can we become kin with earth and water in an age of climate crisis and disruption? at EARTHBOUND, a symposium that reimagines how we relate to the living world.

A reminder for folk that we’re still running our summer book offers! Along with our twenty-fifth issue, you can find Issue 22 — ARK, a store of testimonials from the custodians of a planet in peril, in our online shop:

'The need for the spiritual – or whatever you want to call it – is a human universal which does not wait until more basic needs are met.'. This week’s post is a long read that revolves around the theme of ‘the sacred’ from Unitarians leader Liz Slade.

Dark Mountain: Issue 25 is currently on sale for £11.99 in our online shop! – an anthology of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, interviews and artwork inspired by the struggle for land rights. Get yourself a copy here:.

'The opposite of getting lost is not really the idea of being found. To be more precise, the opposite of getting lost is "belonging".' . Just out – Davina Quinlivan explores questions of disorientation through her family origins in the hills of Myanmar:.

The Plant Pamphlets in action! (with pineapple weed tea). This zenith of the flowering year reveals a treasure trove for plant lovers as the hedgerows and wild terrains burst into colour – get your copy and start your own plant practice here:

SUMMER BOOK OFFERS. Stock up your Dark Mountain bookshelf!. Three classic Dark Mountain collections are on offer in our store of uncivilised art and writing. Do grab yourself a copy (or two), as they are likely to fly off our shelves fast!.

Read Nick Hunt’s troubling tale, 'To the Bone', from Dark Mountain’s first issue and his own short fiction collection Loss Soup and Other Stories about a legendary beast dragged from the depths of a Welsh lake by unkind human hands.

From our 'stack archive – a cornerstone essay from our third issue in which Paul Kingsnorth juxtaposes a praise song for a down-to-earth hand tool, the scythe, with a cutting-edge analysis of technology and neo-environmentalism. Read it here:.

Congratulations to artist-maker and Dark Mountain luminary Caroline Ross on the publication day of her new book ‘Drawn from the Wild’!. Read Caroline’s piece ‘Keepers of the Spring’, published in our new Substack edition as our first featured artist.

This week in our new Substack edition — a deep imaginative look into the parallels of Empire, the ‘long sunset’ of Roman Britain and our own civilisation’s slow collapse, by the writer Margaret Elphinstone.

'So if the future is broken, how do we go about mending it? How do we re-member it, gather the pieces and put them back together?'. Check out Dougald Hine's time-bending 'long read' in our new Substack edition:.

RT @StopSizewellC: Here's a video of our projected messages about #SizewellC to #KeirStarmer. If you share our outrage about how #SizewellC….

INTO THE DEEP FOREST This week in our online edition, anthropologist Carla Stang's revelatory essay 'Rampant Rainbows and the Blackened Sun' on Indigenous knowledge & ways of being from our leafy archive (#6). Portrait of Sacha Runa by Gustaf Palm (#27).

WHERE DOES THE NIGHT START?. Robert Sherman explores the legal debate at the heart of the Right to Roam campaign in light of their recent victory for Dartmoor campers: does sleep count as ‘recreation’? .

MAY BOOK OFFER!. FABULA is our first issue dedicated to fiction and works of imagination. To introduce the book we republish its afterword and a dark folk story by Luke Winter in our new Substack edition, set in an uncertain future.

‘It is extravagantly dark here, until it is light.’. Our first featured poet in our new Substack edition is Em Strang who brings us three visceral poems full of presences great and small, mythic and familiar. With visual art by Meinrad Craighead.

RT @52Flowers: Wrote an introduction to our exciting new Substack, a curated glimpse into the work of @darkmtn Do check our new front page….

News from the Mountain! We’re on Substack!. For our inaugural ‘front page’ we highlight essays by Dark Mountain’s co-founders, laying the tracks for the project’s key themes: a creative resistance to the machine and the myth of progress. See you there!.