Dark Mountain: Issue 6

Dark Mountain #6

by Nick Hunt (Editor), Paul Kingsworth (Editor), Steve Wheeler (Editor)

The sixth Dark Mountain book was published in October 2014. It’s a 270-page hardback with a bright and beautiful cover by Eunah Cho. It features 42 essays, poems, stories and plays, and 16 colour plates.

Essays and conversations: Tom Smith thinks about the values and value of technology; Chris Smaje looks at the future of farming; Nick Stewart takes us on a tour of a changing Irish landscape; Julie Gabrielli thinks about love and change; Florence Caplow offers a Zen understanding; Charlotte Du Cann reveals her seven coats while Nick Hunt explores six deserts; Steve Wheeler dives deep; David Kenkel imagines how he might be seen in a century; Mandy Henk takes us on a tour of Greencastle, Jeppe Graugaard interviews sound artist Bernie Krause; and more.

Fiction: Zedeck Siew meets the Lordly Dragon; Neale Jones visits The Shrine; Kirsty Logan tells a strange tale of living Graces; Joan Menefee takes us to a drowning Venice; David Schuman compares tigers to squirrels; and more.

Poetry: from Kim Moore, Em Strang, John Haines, Grace Wells, Sarah Sadie, Kim Goldberg, Brian Beatty, Francisca Voeltz and others.

Art: With three colour sections, and art and illustration continuing to creep through all sections of the book, issue 6 is the most visual yet, with art, and conversations about art, from Anne-Marie Culhane, Deanne Belinoff, Patrik Qvist, Massimo Angei, Sarah Gittins, Kate Walters, Dougie Strang, Monique Besten, Corrina Ulrich, Jethro Brice, Andrew Macrae.
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270 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Nick Hunt has walked and written across much of Europe. His first book 'Walking the Woods and the Water' (Nicholas Brealey, 2014) was a finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. He also works as a contributor and editor for the Dark Mountain Project.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've only read volumns 1 and 6, and it's clearly apparent to me that the Dark Mountain journal has evolved beautifully over the years. This collection was a lot more cohesive thematically than 1 (which was more or less a throat-clearing and a new start, understandably). I'm hoping I can get my shit together enough to write a piece myself and submit to a future issue.