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Confluence by Jane Lovell
Unlike the birds, we seem to be at odds with the current, the flow, the speed of change.
February 21, 2022Place, Protest and Belonging by Nicola Chester
How do we belong to a place, a landscape, or anywhere? How do we belong to more than one place in the world?
February 14, 2022Sacred Mountain by Ian Grosz
I become only breath; movement; the sound of my feet crunching along the trail, vaguely aware of the dawn chasing behind me.
February 4, 2022Laxton: Some Views by David E. James and Mike Jackson
Everywhere, except at Laxton, these open fields and the untilled commons have been divided and enclosed.
January 31, 2022A Pink and A Blue Field and A Form by Mark Goodwin
we stride across
a snow-rosy
crust our stepsJanuary 6, 2022The Mist at Wolf Cleugh by Bran Graeme Nairne
Further exploration north of Stanhope reveals a landscape knotted with old scar tissue.
December 13, 2021Hedge by Michelle Werrett
Walking along this lane, I was aware the mud I trampled through held the memory of Audrey’s footprints.
December 13, 2021Leavings by Melanie Viets
The kids carry in well water for the baths and the cranky, gas-powered washing machine.
November 25, 2021An audience with Richard Mabey
A filmed conversation with Richard Mabey to launch the Library.
November 17, 2021Landlocked by Francesca Brooks
There is a dampness that sustains the teeming, liveliness of life on every surface of this landscape.
November 15, 2021On Noise by David Higgins
I’ll tolerate the groan of earth, the crack of stone, the whispering of worms.
November 1, 2021Mike Parker’s Season Salon with Pamela Petro
A filmed conversation between Pamela Petro and Mike Parker, discussing hiraeth and belonging.
October 25, 2021
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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