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Welcome to the Dark Mountain Project

New stories for an age of endings

May 22, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

February 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

Tough Times for Wandering Luddites

Extract from Issue 21 on offer this month

Jan 28 • The Dark Mountain Project

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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

The God-Shaped Hole

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

Books

February Archive Offer

Issue 17, a book on renewal and restoration

Feb 18 • The Dark Mountain Project

January Archive Offer

Dark Mountain: Issue 13 on ‘what it means to be human’

Jan 21 • The Dark Mountain Project

Winter Bookshelf Offers

Issue 23: Dark Kitchen and Issue 21 on ‘confluence’

Dec 9, 2025 • 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

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New stories for an age of endings

Links

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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

December News from the Mountain

Online latest plus special winter book offers

Dec 10, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

November News from the Mountain

The latest from Issue 28 plus final call for Issue 29

Nov 12, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

Recent posts

January Archive Offer

Dark Mountain: Issue 13 on ‘what it means to be human’

Jan 21 • The Dark Mountain Project

Of Hidden Futures and Star-Shaped Worlds

Tracing the avisual cartographies of peatland remains

Jan 14 • The Dark Mountain Project and Lara-Lane Plambeck

On Colossal Wrecks

A film journey into the concrete heart of COP28

Jan 7 • The Dark Mountain Project and Josh Appignanesi

The Annals of the Shemsu-Hor

A deep time story for the end of the year

Dec 29, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Brian C George

Sea Beet, Sugar Beet

on the sweetness of Earth and perils of artifice

Dec 17, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Charlotte Du Cann

Winter Bookshelf Offers

Issue 23: Dark Kitchen and Issue 21 on ‘confluence’

Dec 9, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project

A Small Wave in the Sea

‘The ancestral wisdom of the sea is held in stones and shells, in the whelks that nest themselves in granite and the whales that fall into the depths to…

Dec 3, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Alexander McMaster

Living Without Stories

Notes from a permaculture course in South India

Nov 26, 2025 • The Dark Mountain Project and Yash Lad

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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