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            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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          • Earth Tongue by Sammy WeaverI notice a cluster of russett brown, muscular tongues poking just above the grass, then more and more.
          • The Seven Mile Straight by Carrie Rhys-DaviesI am forty two years old and it’s a vividly hot afternoon early in September 2021.
          • Seasonal Rituals by Philip StrangeThese late autumn starling displays have also become, for me, part of the seasonal rituals of Cogden Beach
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      • Protected: Earth Tongue by Sammy Weaver

        There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

        December 4, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The Seven Mile Straight by Carrie Rhys-Davies

        I am forty two years old and it’s a vividly hot afternoon early in September 2021.

        November 27, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Seasonal Rituals by Philip Strange

        These late autumn starling displays have also become, for me, part of the seasonal rituals of Cogden Beach

        November 20, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Losing Your Place by Sue Clifford and Angela King

        Questing for local distinctiveness must err towards the inclusive and welcoming, it is not about designating areas more beautiful or more derelict or worthy of grants.

        November 13, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Knife by Sarah-Jane Dobner

        Bend down and pinch a ripple of skin. It’s warm and springy, taut to the body.

        October 30, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Orchards and places by Common Ground

        In fact, many of the well known varieties have grown-up purely by chance, from discarded pips or stones.

        October 23, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • A Risca Boy’s Birds by Jeremy Hughes

        I joined the RSPB’s Young Ornithologists’ Club, and dog-eared its magazine articles about this habitat and that habitat and the wonders of its reserves.

        October 17, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Wool, a short essay by Amelia Hodsdon

        Once upon a time, sheep in the fields here, in their sheepcots on the wolds, were the source of fortunes.

        October 5, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Solastalgia Flights by Julia Brigdale

        Our childhoods were a lie I now see, our memories, skewed. And therein lies the problem.

        September 19, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Threads, a community poem

        Red, it’s my colour,

        the cuffs rippling in the wind,

        Hung lazily off an arm.

        September 8, 2023
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Eisteddfod! And the Welsh Language Landscape by Julie Brominicks

        The bus had cruised north, Y Rhinogydd crisply defined. We collected a musician sucking vodka through a straw at Porthmadog

        August 21, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Searching for Life in a Burial Chamber by Elizabeth Black

        I felt buoyed by its energy as I descended towards the village and saw Silbury Hill appear singularly in the distance.

        July 25, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
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      About

      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.



      Submissions

      The editors welcome original submissions in written, audio and visual genres. Submission should reflect The Clearing/Little Toller’s concern with the natural environment, but within this broad subject-matter we encourage a diversity of interpretation and approach.

      If you’d like to submit work to The Clearing, please email theclearing@littletoller.co.uk. Please refer to the submission guidelines. While we receive many submissions we will get back to you as soon as we are able.

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      Tollern river valley in West Dorset. Recorded in the Domesday survey as Tolre, derived from a Celtic word for stream in a hollow valley.

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