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Dark Mountain #10
Dark Mountain Issue 10: Uncivilised Poetics
We are living through an age of turmoil: climate change, extinction, failed economics, stagnant politics. In such a time, what is the point of poetry?
This question is the starting point for Uncivilised Poetics, the tenth Dark Mountain book, which brings together a unique collection of writers and artists. With poems, essays, visual art and an accompanying CD of audio recordings, their voices come together to reimagine what it means to be human today.
‘Modernity and its colossal ideas are collapsing,’ write the editors. ‘The urn has cracked. The work gathered here explores what happens in the gaps, what shape the shards, when the world as we know it fails.’
Contributors to this special issue of Dark Mountain include Mark Rylance, Sheryl St. Germain, John Kinsella, Robert Bringhurst, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Robin Robertson, Jan Zwicky and Robert Montgomery.
The editors for this issue were Em Strang, Nick Hunt and Cate Chapman. The art editor was Charlotte Du Cann and the audio CD was produced by Marmaduke Dando. The cover art is the work of the writer and illustrator Nick Hayes.
Dark Mountain: Issue 10 is a hardback, 336 pages long, printed on FSC-certified paper, accompanied by an audio CD.
This question is the starting point for Uncivilised Poetics, the tenth Dark Mountain book, which brings together a unique collection of writers and artists. With poems, essays, visual art and an accompanying CD of audio recordings, their voices come together to reimagine what it means to be human today.
‘Modernity and its colossal ideas are collapsing,’ write the editors. ‘The urn has cracked. The work gathered here explores what happens in the gaps, what shape the shards, when the world as we know it fails.’
Contributors to this special issue of Dark Mountain include Mark Rylance, Sheryl St. Germain, John Kinsella, Robert Bringhurst, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Robin Robertson, Jan Zwicky and Robert Montgomery.
The editors for this issue were Em Strang, Nick Hunt and Cate Chapman. The art editor was Charlotte Du Cann and the audio CD was produced by Marmaduke Dando. The cover art is the work of the writer and illustrator Nick Hayes.
Dark Mountain: Issue 10 is a hardback, 336 pages long, printed on FSC-certified paper, accompanied by an audio CD.
- GenresPoetry
336 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2016
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May 16, 2017
I happened to be at the launch event for this as I was doing some storytelling for the Dark Mountaineers. I wandered into the tent late and heard fragments of Sheryl St. Germain's "Midnight Oil" - a haunting response to the BP oil spill. That was good enough for me to fork out for the whole collection there and then, and the collection was good enough for me to sign up as a subscriber.
I confess to skimming one or two of the essays - it feels very unnatural to read a book of poetry from start to finish rather than grazing, and yet I felt I had to before loading it on to Good Reads. But the basic format of poetry mingled with prose - essays, journal entries, interviews - made linear reading a lot easier. The standard is consistently excellent, the subject matter pressing. I look forward to more.
I confess to skimming one or two of the essays - it feels very unnatural to read a book of poetry from start to finish rather than grazing, and yet I felt I had to before loading it on to Good Reads. But the basic format of poetry mingled with prose - essays, journal entries, interviews - made linear reading a lot easier. The standard is consistently excellent, the subject matter pressing. I look forward to more.
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