Author / Graham Shackleton
Black Apples by Andrew Kotting
Black Apples is inspired by Iain Sinclair’s Black Apples of Gower. It was made in collaboration with Iain Sinclair and Anonymous Bosch with music by Buster Grey-Jung.
February 15, 2018Lie of the Land
A series of responses to the Referendum exploring what leaving the EU could mean for conservation, wildlife and our relationship with the land. Please add your voice by posting comments below or submitting a longer contribution – either…
September 13, 2016The Earth will speak in the long run by Marcus Sedgwick
“Since the land cannot speak for itself, who will speak on its behalf?”
July 28, 2016If Britain becomes Little by Germaine Greer
Will uneconomic farming on marginal lands be a win for wilderness?
July 27, 2016Hobblers Hole by Adam Thorpe
“Our islands are splinters off a massive core to which we also belong”
July 26, 2016Rain Sideways by Paul Evans
“The storm is with us. Standing in the dunes in the indifferent lash of rain sideways feels like being part of a community”
July 25, 2016“Great God, where is the ship?” by Philip Hoare
Will birds and animals die as a direct result of leaving the EU?
July 22, 2016Extracts from Undercurrents by Amanda Bell
An extract from Amanda Bell’s Undercurrents: a psychogeography of Irish rivers in haiku and haibun.
May 23, 2016James Roberts – Three New Poems
James Roberts lives in the Black Mountains. He co-edits Zoomorphic magazine. Recent poetry has been published by Agenda and Cinnamon Press. A novella “The Man in the Mountain.” was published in 2015.
May 23, 2016Richard Skelton on his new film
In 2011, exchanging one coast for another, my wife Autumn and I returned to south-west Cumbria from mid-west Ireland. We had lived in, and made work about, the region before, but this…
November 6, 2015Oliver Rackham’s Boots
Late in the summer of 2013 I took an unusual package to the post office in the village where I live. Inside the box, stuffed with newspaper and packing tape, were Oliver…
February 15, 2015The Virtues of Ash
VIRGIL Fraxinus in sylvis pulcherrima, pinus in hortis, Populus in fluviis, abies in montibus altis (The ash is the most beautiful tree in the woods, the pine in gardens, the poplar by…
September 29, 2014
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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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