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Mark Goodwin – ‘Serpent & Sea-Window’
SERPENT & SEA-WINDOW I Just about to step into a Tintagel Church’s graveyard: I’m first met by a long-stemmed stone-bloom of war memorial Celtic cross, its cross-arms…
May 16, 2014Paul Evans – Herbaceous
Celebrating the turning of the seasons this week we’re ‘bringing the may’ with a selection from Paul Evans’ extremely enjoyable new book of ‘audacious botany’ featuring illustrations by Kurt Jackson. Out this…
May 1, 2014Jo Bell – Two New Poems
PASSING TIME Under the flyover, the 21 deep locks, a flight of graves. And then the road, the yellow houses, neither-nor-lands, scrub and stream. The new estates with spider…
April 25, 2014“All is Lithogenesis” – Three Stony Poems
“All is lithogenesis” wrote Hugh MacDiarmid in ‘On a Raised Beach’ suggesting that all creation is founded on stone and its geological processes of formation and change. But he also suggests…
April 11, 2014Ben Short – An Uncomplicated Life
My life used to be complicated; it is no longer so. I left London over half a decade ago, having lived and worked in its hothouse environment for nearly fifteen years. It…
April 4, 2014Rupert Loydell – Three New Poems
Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including…
March 28, 2014Jay Griffiths on writing fiction
Tragic or comic, feathered or jewelled, Harlequin or Pierrot, all fiction is a masquerade. We writers adopt disguises: we flirt, feign and play, and the story is the mask we wear. Behind…
March 23, 2014‘Soft Estate’ – An Interview with Edward Chell
‘Soft Estate’ is a term used by the Highways Agency to describe those natural habitats that have evolved alongside motorways in this country. It is also the title of a fascinating new…
March 21, 2014Hugh Dunkerley – Two Poems
Hugh Dunkerley was born in Surrey, but grew up in Edinburgh and Bath. He now lives in Brighton with his wife and young son. He…
March 13, 2014Jack Clemo – Barney’s Tricks
‘Barney’s Tricks’ was written in October 1937, when the novelist, poet and autobiographer Jack Clemo (1916-1994) was 21 years old, and was published in Saundry’s Almanack at the beginning of 1939.…
March 7, 2014George Ttoouli – Three New Poems
George Ttoouli’s first collection of poetry is ‘Static Exile‘ (Penned in the Margins, 2009). His second, ‘from Animal Illicit’ is due sometime in the future. With Simon Turner,…
February 28, 2014Amy Cutler – from ‘Glitch’
We are very pleased to be publishing an extract from Amy Cutler’s new sequence of poems Glitch. This is a work which draws on botanical misnomers and the cultural strictures of environmental language – in…
February 21, 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.
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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