A Chiffchaff Sings by Martin Maudsley
And I thought to myself:
He has seen nearly a century of seasons –
Fresh flowers, leathery leaves, ripe fruit.
May 13, 2024A Year of Cows by S. V. Morgan (Part One)
I move among them, barely disturbing them now. I have become a kind of familiar.
April 23, 2024Six New Poems by Daril Bentley
The profession and art of direction
as by flash of fish in the sea.
How flawless synchronized swimming
in the air is done.April 15, 2024Lost Gardens: a time traveller’s itinerary by Fiona Davison
I spend my time diving into accounts of old gardens and, more often than not, these gardens have not survived the passage of time intact.
April 8, 2024The Sensory Attunement Coracle by Ryan Powell
Each spring a coracle king or queen would be chosen through a lottery and this person given to the river as a symbolic offering.
March 25, 2024Granite is the hardest word by Jennifer Hunt
Granite stacks surround these islands, shape-shifting with the tide.
March 18, 2024Circling Home by Laura Parker
Encircled by magic. No wonder the land has held me in its thrall.
March 1, 2024Casting by Fish Fischer
Sunlight shone through the tree canopy, bouncing and scattering in a random pattern, casting golden and green patches of light on the river.
February 26, 2024Stepping Around Uneven Ground by Karen Jane Cannon
Knowledge is not necessarily about ‘seeing’ everything, but about knowing somewhere.
February 19, 2024Commute of the Cormorants by Angela Evans
Notwithstanding the Dysynni valley’s scenic beauty, it is as much the result of human intervention as it is natural forces.
February 5, 2024Sailing By (One) by Jeremy Boyce
When it’s lively like that you need the vision of Nostradamus just to steer through the Hokusais.
January 18, 2024A Manifesto for Chesil by Sarah Acton
I acknowledge memory in multiple dimensions, where the collective power to make change lies. I will gather, collect, create, unafraid of storms that will pass through.
January 15, 2024
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THE CLEARING is an online journal published by Little Toller Books that offers writers and artists a dedicated space in which to explore and celebrate the landscapes we live in. Our contributors are encouraged to go forth and find distinctive visions that startle us, rural or urban, modern or prehistoric, industrial, post-industrial, fantastical, natural, political, however they come. But each must be meaningful, surprising, felt.
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