Author / Adrian Cooper
Where are you really from? by Louisa Adjoa Parker
Racism is everywhere. It spreads like a pandemic, is passed down the generations like an heirloom.
August 17, 2020From Here: Meet Becca, from Bridport
I soon became familiar with a sense of alienation after various experiences of being singled out and discriminated towards because of my race.
July 29, 2020From Here: Meet Sinéad, from Dorchester
People of Colour enjoy nature like everyone else. We love going to the beach and going for countryside walks.
July 14, 2020From Here: Meet Martha, from the Cotswolds
I’ve lived in the city for ten years now in a community that feels like home but a landscape that doesn’t.
July 7, 2020From Here: Meet Tamzin, from Cornwall
Tamzin has experienced overt racism and threats of violence towards her family. ‘One time a lady rang my mum’s doorbell at about 8 am and told her to get her “half-castes out”
June 30, 2020Daily Photo by Bob Gibbons
I think these are amongst the most gorgeously elegant birds that I know. This is a black-necked Stilt* feeding along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in winter.
June 29, 2020The Corvid’s Shadow by Rose Fulton
“We were on a walk in the forest above our house when a crow flew over. We watched as its shadow went passed us on the ground.”
June 25, 2020My Plan by Paul Kingsnorth
I’m a writer, and to me this has always been a calling, a duty. It’s always been my guiding light, my personal mythology.
June 27, 2019Good Person by Melissa Harrison
I am a good person. I watched Blue Planet II and I agree with Extinction Rebellion.
June 5, 2019Birdsong by Jay Griffiths
If I offered my notation, birds seem to sing the names of composers (particularly Russian) – Straviiinski, Straviiinski, or Tchaíkovski, Tchaíkovski, Tchaí! Sometimes chirping Tippett, Tippett, Tippett then calling low and sweet Keeats, Keeats, Keeats.
April 30, 2019Iain Sinclair on The Unofficial Countryside
The Unofficial Countryside is a proper reckoning, the Doomsday Book of a topography too fascinating to be left alone.
April 25, 2019
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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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