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Welcome to the Dark Mountain Project

New stories for an age of endings

May 22, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

From Dark Mountain: Issue 29

Apr 24 • The Dark Mountain Project

Five Salmon Dancing

From Dark Mountain: Issue 29

Apr 21 • The Dark Mountain Project

Introducing Dark Mountain: Issue 29

An uncivilised bestiary

Apr 15 • The Dark Mountain Project

Sing an Ocean Atlas

How gratitude protects whales

Apr 8 • The Dark Mountain Project and Sonja Swift

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Sing an Ocean Atlas

Apr 8 • The Dark Mountain Project and Sonja Swift

In Praise of Drawing

Oct 25, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Cally Yeatman

Sep 10, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Anna Sheftel

Oct 22, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Forest Woodward

Books

March Archive Offer

Issue 17, a book on renewal and restoration

Feb 18 • The Dark Mountain Project

Dark Mountain: Issue 28

Our new autumn issue on Uncivilised Art

Nov 14, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

Dark Mountain: Issue 27

Our spring issue on the theme of 'bodies'

Nov 14, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

Autumn Archive Book Offer

Limited edition of Issue 9 now on sale

Sep 11, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

Summer Book Offers

Stock up your Dark Mountain bookshelf

Jun 29, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

Our book offer for May: Issue 18 on uncivilised fiction

May 22, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

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New stories for an age of endings

Links

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April News from the Mountain

Our new spring Issue 29 is now out!

Apr 17

Spring Equinox News from the Mountain

Issue 29 launch plus bookshop offers

Mar 20

February News from the Mountain

New archive offer plus Plant Pamphlets PDF

Feb 18

New Year News from the Mountain

Archive offer plus online latest

Jan 21 • The Dark Mountain Project

Recent posts

A Vaster Sanctuary

Review of 'Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé reader'

Apr 1 • The Dark Mountain Project and Mat Osmond

the land salt lake land where there is no sea

On 'The Once and Future Lake': an alternative introduction

Mar 26 • The Dark Mountain Project and Michael McLane

A Story in Three Floods

The origins of a rising

Mar 11 • The Dark Mountain Project and Nickole Brown

How to Say I Love You in Greenlandic

An Arctic Alphabet

Mar 5 • The Dark Mountain Project

No Nature Poems Please

from 'Issue 10: Uncivilised Poetics'

Feb 25 • The Dark Mountain Project

March Archive Offer

Issue 17, a book on renewal and restoration

Feb 18 • The Dark Mountain Project

Poetry on the Edge of Time

Three poems from this winter's archive issues

Feb 11 • The Dark Mountain Project

On the art of interspecies communication and social fermentation

Feb 4 • The Dark Mountain Project and Mark Watson

The Long Read

The God-Shaped Hole

from 'Dark Mountain: Issue 12 - Sanctum'

Jul 9, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Elizabeth Slade

On the progress trap of civilisation (and five ways of avoiding it)

May 22, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Paul Kingsnorth

Remember the Future

When looking back becomes looking forward

May 22, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Dougald Hine

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The Dark Mountain Newsletter

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