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Dark Mountain #4
Dark Mountain: Issue 4
Book 4 is a 328-page hardback with a wraparound cover by Kit Boyd. It features 47 essays, poems, stories and plays, and 20 colour plates. Publication date: summer 2013. Highlights include:
Essays and conversations: Dougald Hine talks to Mexican thinker Gustavo Esteva; Indian writer Narendra sends dispatches from the forgotten tribal areas of Bastar; Cody Meyocks investigates the unreal creatures of Oregon; Steve Wheeler talks to primitivist thinker John Zerzan; Dr David Fleming provides a dictionary for a crumbling world; Margaret Elphinstone takes lessons from the Roman Empire; James Cowan searches for talking words in Bornean forests; Andreas Kornevall builds a cairn for lost species; John Rember talks to the dead; Joanna Varawa climbs through the layers of history and geology on a Hawaiian volcano; Mike Edwards dreams about butterflies.
Fiction: Short stories and drama from George Brooks, Tim Fox, Eric Robertson, Sylvia Linsteadt, Alex Lusted and Christina Bodznick.
Poetry: from Mario Petrucci, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Kingsnorth, Susan Richardson, Roselle Angwin, William Haas, Ric A. Ohge, Charmain Leung, Jake Moran, Em Strang, Elizabeth Rimmer and others.
Art: Photographs, paintings, line drawings and collages from Anita Hunt, Sophie Mason, Frances Cannon, Rima Staines, Jean Hess, Dan Porter, Scott Ahlf, Sara Andreasson and others.
Essays and conversations: Dougald Hine talks to Mexican thinker Gustavo Esteva; Indian writer Narendra sends dispatches from the forgotten tribal areas of Bastar; Cody Meyocks investigates the unreal creatures of Oregon; Steve Wheeler talks to primitivist thinker John Zerzan; Dr David Fleming provides a dictionary for a crumbling world; Margaret Elphinstone takes lessons from the Roman Empire; James Cowan searches for talking words in Bornean forests; Andreas Kornevall builds a cairn for lost species; John Rember talks to the dead; Joanna Varawa climbs through the layers of history and geology on a Hawaiian volcano; Mike Edwards dreams about butterflies.
Fiction: Short stories and drama from George Brooks, Tim Fox, Eric Robertson, Sylvia Linsteadt, Alex Lusted and Christina Bodznick.
Poetry: from Mario Petrucci, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Kingsnorth, Susan Richardson, Roselle Angwin, William Haas, Ric A. Ohge, Charmain Leung, Jake Moran, Em Strang, Elizabeth Rimmer and others.
Art: Photographs, paintings, line drawings and collages from Anita Hunt, Sophie Mason, Frances Cannon, Rima Staines, Jean Hess, Dan Porter, Scott Ahlf, Sara Andreasson and others.
328 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2013
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October 13, 2013
An inspiring anthology of essays, interviews, poems, pictures and short stories all centered on the Dark Mountain philosophy. It's probably worth reading the Dark Mountain manifesto before reading this book but don't be put off, it's not in any way dogmatic, more a point of reference from which to begin art (and life) and despite its superficially fatalistic view of civilisation the undercurrents are overwhelmingly optimistic. The items in this anthology all contribute to, develop and clarify the Dark Mountain philosophy, and left me feeling satisfied and positive. Possibly as an anthology you may be able to dip into it but I found it worked well to read it cover to cover, at least first time round.
June 15, 2015
Again, a mishmash of essays, poems, plays, and interviews, some of which I enjoyed, some were meh. All important in my continuing reading about/ dealing with the Anthropocene.
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