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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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    • 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
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • 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
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Charles Rangeley-Wilson

      CHARLES RANGELEY-WILSON is a lifelong plant lover and gardener. She trained as a fine artist and worked as a teacher before setting up her own nursery. She began exhibiting at Royal Horticultural…
      July 16, 2014
      Contributors, Contributors T-Z
    • Ray Ward

      RAY WARD graduated from Trent Polytechnic in Fine Art in 1983, where he specialised in painting, performance and video. He has been practising as a self employed artist ever since and has lectured…
      May 19, 2014
      Contributors, Contributors T-Z
    • Paul Nash

      Paul Nash (1889–1946) was one of the most original British artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Primarily a painter in oils and watercolour, he was also an accomplished book…
      May 12, 2014
      Contributors, Contributors N-S
    • 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
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • Richard Benson

      RICHARD BENSON is an English author, journalist and critic. He grew up on a small farm in Yorkshire, was educated at King’s College, London, and began his professional writing career as a…
      February 25, 2014
      Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • 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
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • 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
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
    • John Berger

      JOHN BERGER is an English art critic, novelist, painter, poet and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His seminal essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, was written as…
      January 9, 2014
      Contributors, Contributors A-F
    • Philip Marsden

      PHILP MARSDEN is the author of a number of award-winning books, including The Bronski House, The Crossing Place, The Levelling Sea and Rising Ground. His work has been translated into fifteen languages…
      September 25, 2013
      Contributors, Contributors G-M
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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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