Author / Jon Woolcott
Protected: Raptors of the Concrete Cloverleaf by Christopher Brown
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February 10, 2025Aqua Vitae by Kirsteen McNish
A trickle of water dances over my feet, releasing a barely audible sound.
January 13, 2025A Welcome from the White Cottage by Liz Williams
‘Wales was an old crush I couldn’t shake. The solitude of its remote coastlines; an oldness that boasted permanence’
December 17, 2024The painter’s chair / Attending by Fiona Sampson
like a new
thought or like
the curlew’s
call that
doublejoints
across the SoundDecember 3, 2024Dent by Myna Trustram
lichen spatters hawthorn branches like paint on a studio floor.
November 22, 2024Mama, en route by Coco Lone Neal
When I was eleven years old, for four days my father and I walked and camped, naming the places we passed.
November 18, 2024Under Scythe-like Wings by Ian Grosz
…in its ageless song we felt Orkney’s long-absent presences.
October 25, 2024Brute Force with Art by Laura Parker
Working away quietly, the voles and mice would play about him, the curlews, peewits and crows ‘take him for granted.’
October 18, 2024The Bungalow by Ken Worpole
Grandma Elvin was always in demand as a fortune-teller, as well as being accomplished in other psychic gifts.
September 23, 2024Gulls Dreaming by Ann Lingard
She spreads her wings, tilting them to capture the full power of the lift.
September 9, 2024Wild Twin by Jeff Young, an extract
It’s seven o’clock on a Monday morning in March, sometime in the 1970s, and I’m not going to work.
August 28, 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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