Joined January 2010
- Tweets 4,661
- Following 2,305
- Followers 8,712
- Likes 1,012
404 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Apr 15
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…
4
148
Jun 14
‘The save-the-world script can steer us to moralise rather than to connect; to think that providing information is sufficient rather than organising to build power.’
The latest in our online edition – Anthea Lawson’s new book, How Not to Save the World.
darkmountainproject.substack…
1
1
10
315
Jun 10
This week, Dark Mountain editor Anthea Lawson introduces an extract from her new book, How Not To Save The World that delves into unconscious notions of ‘saving’ as part of ‘doing-good’ that are particular to people from a Christian cultural heritage.
darkmountainproject.substack…
1
2
84
This week in our online edition, photographer and location scout Antonio Serrano Nieto goes in search of what lies beneath the moss-covered stones of a hidden realm in the forests of southern Spain.
Read the full account with pictures here: darkmountainproject.substack…
2
117
May 29
THE NAMELESS ARE IN ME Two visceral poems from our spring offer Issue 21, a classic collection on the theme of ‘confluence’ - from the cataclysmic to the microbial in times of collapse. Dark verses by Joel Long and Finn Haunch. Artwork by gustaf broms.
darkmountainproject.substack…
2
107
May 21
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…
1
99
May 15
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…
1
114
May 13
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…
3
163
May 10
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/da…
115
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…
1
114
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
1
114
Apr 29
‘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…
2
131
Apr 24
‘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…
1
5
106
Apr 22
‘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…
2
226
Apr 17
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…
6
108
Apr 12
‘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…
1
148
Apr 10
‘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…
2
4
172
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
116
‘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…
1
107
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…
Lake extractions photo by Hikmet Sidney Loe
2
107