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Alexandra Harris – In pursuit of Edward Thomas
Spring arrives in Britain from the southwest, and makes a slanting progress across the country at the pace of between one and two miles an hour. So the phenologists tell us. In…
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Yvonne Reddick – Towards Taw and Tor: Sources of Ted Hughes’s Inspiration
Yvonne Reddick is Visiting Research Associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge, concurrently with her Research Fellowship at the University of Central Lancashire. Her poetry is currently displayed at the Blackpool Illuminations and as…
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Rob Magnuson Smith – Kettleman Point
Nick Hogue met his girlfriend on the day the Oregonian reported a grizzly inside the miniature golf course. Apparently the bear had climbed a covered bridge over the third hole, bathed in…
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Rachel Magdeburg – Milvus milvus: The reCAPTCHA
We are very pleased to be publishing Rachel Magdeburg’s script in full in The Clearing this week. Milvus milvus: The reCAPTCHA was written during a year’s residency in Leeds funded by East Street Arts…
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Amanda Bell – Trout
Amanda Bell Yesterday, months into a rather poor fishing season, my nephew caught a trout, dapping hoppers at Cornacille on Lough Conn. His keen just-turned-nine-year-old eyes caught the fish’s mouth as it…
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Places of Water and Weather: an Interview with Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood’s first novel Weathering was published earlier this month and is a story of mothers, daughters and ghosts, set in a cold, isolated Devon river valley. Her previous book, Diving Belles,…
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Katherine Price – A Glimpse of the Heath: Parallax Regained
Chainsaws woke me on the Saturday before Christmas. My neighbour was taking down the Lawson’s cypress. It wasn’t a good looking tree – the ‘false cypress’ of seventies suburbia, unaccountably prized for…
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Karen Lloyd – Testing the Sands
Last year The Clearing visited Morecambe Bay in a provoking and memorable essay by Paul Kingsnorth. We are very pleased this week to be returning with a fresh pair of eyes. Karen Lloyd has…
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Eddie Procter – The Rhiws of the Black Mountains: Liminal Ways, Old Beyond Memory
“The twins looked on the path to the Eagle Stone as their own private property. ‘It’s Our Path!’ they’d shout if they happened to meet a party of hikers.” – On…
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Jos Smith – ‘A Partly Real, Partly Imagined-Country’
Defining the rural is a notoriously difficult thing to do. ‘Not the urban’ might be the closest we can come but such a cumbersome negativity leaves a question mark over edgelands,…
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Evelyn O’Malley – Adventures in the Forest of Arden
Evelyn O’Malley is researching audiences, Shakespeare, place and environment for her PhD at the University of Exeter. In summer 2014, she followed a tour of Taking Flight Theatre Company’s As You Like…
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An Interview with Tim Dee
Luke Thompson: You went to the BBC to become a radio producer and have said that you tend to make programmes on poetry and nature together. I wonder whether you could…
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