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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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        • Harry and Pierse by Hana LoftusWhat drew Becker to crouch in the fields day after day, obsessively documenting his neighbours as they worked?
        • Montol and Midwinter Light by Ysella SimsWe wind through the streets, the rain giving way to the winds of the next winter storm.
        • The Lost Dens of Leicester by Sharon TyersSixty years later, I often find myself deep within our den in my dreams.
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    • Christopher Matthews

      CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS is a photographer living in Chelmsford with an abiding interest in place. His documentary projects are in the collection of Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand, and since…
      October 2, 2017
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    • Amy Liptrot

      AMY LIPTROT has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the River out of whichThe Outrun has emerged. As well as…
      July 13, 2016
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    • Michael Kirkman

      MICHAEL KIRKMAN studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He now lives and works in Edinburgh. Michael’s inspiration comes from a need to communicate moments in time that seem…
      July 13, 2016
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    • William Fiennes

      WILLIAM FIENNES is the bestselling author of The Snow Geese and The Music Room. He has contributed reviews, essays and stories to many publications, including the London Review of Books, Granta, the Observer and…
      July 13, 2016
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    • Alexandra Harris

      ALEXANDRA HARRIS  is is the author of Weatherland, Modernism on Sea, Virginia Woolf and Romantic Moderns, which won the Guardian First Book Award and a Somerset Maugham Award for Romantic Moderns. She…
      January 26, 2016
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    • Ian McMillan

      IAN McMILLAN is a poet, playwright and the presenter of the BBC Radio 3 series, The Verb. Since drumming in Barnsley’s first folk-rock band and working in a tennis ball factory, he has been…
      August 11, 2015
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    • John Gray

      JOHN GRAY is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas. He Gray contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he…
      March 31, 2015
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    • James Lovelock

      JAMES LOVELOCK is an environmentalist, author and chemist best-known for his invention of the ‘electron capture detector’ and as the pioneer of Gaia Theory. He is the author of over 200 scientific…
      October 14, 2014
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    • Andrew Motion

      Andrew Motion is a poet, novelist and biographer. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published celebrated biographies: The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life…
      May 12, 2014
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    • Jonathan Gibbs

      JONATHAN GIBBS Educated at the Central School of Art and the Slade, Jonathan Gibbs works in wood engraving, drawing and painting. Living in Scotland he regularly exhibits in Edinburgh and London and…
      February 25, 2014
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    • Kurt Jackson

      KURT JACKSON was born is 1961 in Blandford, Dorset. He graduated from St Peter’s College, Oxford with a degree in Zoology in 1983. While there, he spent most of his time painting…
      February 9, 2014
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    • Bridget McCrum

      BRIDGET McCRUM is primarily a stone-carver but works in plaster for many bronze pieces. Influenced by archaeological finds and by the work of Brancusi, Hepworth and Moore, her sculpture also contains oblique…
      January 9, 2014
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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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