jeffhall's review
2.0
I'm relatively new to the work of the Dark Mountain Project, so although I'm still learning what their agenda is all about, I found Issue 19 to be rather bland. The unifying topic this time around is "the theme of death, loss and renewal" which certainly has a great deal of potential.
However, few of the contributors manage to do anything particularly interesting within that broad canvas, with the exceptions of Kirsten Norrie, Margi Prideaux, and Gabriel Thomas Stevens. Prideaux's "Birdsong in the Bardo" is the real standout piece, a deeply felt response to the Ravine wildfire that decimated South Australia's Kangaroo Island in early 2o2o (the author was living on the island at the time).
As with any collection of work by a large group of contributors, the contents of Issue 19 are uneven, but the weak pieces outweigh the worthwhile ones, a balance that will hopefully be reversed in future issues.
However, few of the contributors manage to do anything particularly interesting within that broad canvas, with the exceptions of Kirsten Norrie, Margi Prideaux, and Gabriel Thomas Stevens. Prideaux's "Birdsong in the Bardo" is the real standout piece, a deeply felt response to the Ravine wildfire that decimated South Australia's Kangaroo Island in early 2o2o (the author was living on the island at the time).
As with any collection of work by a large group of contributors, the contents of Issue 19 are uneven, but the weak pieces outweigh the worthwhile ones, a balance that will hopefully be reversed in future issues.
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