The Dark Mountain Project

May 07

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A call for imaginative writing from “outside the city limits”:

As a society, we no longer acknowledge the role of stories in shaping what is real to us – and so our storytellers become entertainers, our poets harmless eccentrics, our artists cynical manipulators of the market, all taboos busted and everything for sale.

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A journey to the Sinking Lands

Feb 11

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Dan Box is travelling to Carteret, a set of island in the south pacific. This year the islands are being evacuated due to sea-level rises. You can read about his trip and the world’s first climate change refugees at journeytothesinkinglands.wordpress.com.