London Launch of Dark Mountain: Issue 30

Join us for an intimate gathering to launch our final issue Since 2009, Dark Mountain has held the testimonies of writers and artists to how it feels in our hearts to bear witness to the collapse of the world as we once knew it. Now, in 2026, as our biannual book production is drawing to a close, we are celebrating the launch of our last issue. For the final book in this 16-year series, we reached out to some of the people who have written for, edited and shaped Dark Mountain over the years, inviting them to send work on the theme of ‘endings’. Between endpapers – created from the astonishing blue of foraged vivianite – are meditations on what it means for things to end: from a story about a hospice nurse and a requiem for the IPCC Report to the writings of the last scribe, entombed among his books, hearing the siren voices of the barbarians outside the walls. As smoke rises from wildfires in the mountains of ‘green’ northern Spain, a starlit mountain vigil in the Scottish Highlands takes us deep into cosmic time, and foliate forms loom in the shadows of a folkloric forest. Elsewhere, activists put their bodies on the line to disrupt Aotearora New Zealand’s biggest coal mine, and a canoe voyage through Montana challenges us to consider the traces humans leave behind – that help rather than harm. As always in our books. the more-than-human leaves its tracks across our pages: a speaking glacier, a trusting toad, a prophetic oak, galloping horses, millions of hornets, fig leaves, hawks, grizzly bears, California gulls and Roosevelt elks. You are warmly invited to follow their path and join us in London for readings from the book’s contributors, to meet some of the editors, and to raise a glass to the last in this series of Dark Mountain books – and also, to find out where the project is going in the future. Hope to see you there! Do join us for the London launch on Friday 30th October at 7.00pm Essex Hall Essex Street Temple London WC2R 3HY Nearest Tube: Temple (Circle and District Lines) Tickets are pay what you can, and you’ll need to book a place on Eventbrite. Please note: Tickets are very limited, so please only book if you can definitely attend – and let us know if you need to cancel, so we can ensure your place goes to someone else. Image credit: Epilogue by Kahn and Selesnick (from Issue 30)