Charlotte Du Cann

Nov 21, 2024 | resilience.org | Charlotte Du Cann

As promised I am sharing a story I wrote for the just published Dark Mountain anthology, Dark Ocean. It’s a logbook of sorts from a creative residency I hosted aboard a boat called Merlin in the Hebrides last year, and was the inspiration for this sea-themed issue. You can read more about the issue in the bookshelf section at the end of this introduction.

Nov 19, 2024 | resilience.org | Mark Watson |Charlotte Du Cann

Cover of ‘The Plant Pamphlets’: sunflower seeds by Anne-Marie CulhaneFrom 1999-2024, Dark Mountain’s Mark Watson taught and demonstrated the art of holding a dialogue with (mostly) wild plants. Part-manual, part-memoir, this small book is a distillation of his hands-on practice, ‘hanging out’ with twelve flowers and a tree over a year: from a conversation with burdock in a community garden, to lying alongside sea kale on the Suffolk shore, to foraging for mallow leaf fritters and flower teas.