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One Place — Poetry by Jane Routh

‘When you know a place lifelong, you’ve no need of maps;
every name has its shapes and its feel underfoot:
Helks, Jacksons Pasture, Perry Moor – even the fields
have names: Robins Close, Parrocks Meadow.’
April 9, 2018
Poetry
New Poems from Mike Barlow

When it rains in the hills the river down here
sings a wild song, foams at the mouth,
twists its tongue on the messages it brings,
keeps us in our place.
March 12, 2018
Poetry
A poem by Stephen Watts

Stephen Watts has published numerous collections, including ‘Ancient Sunlight’ (2014) and Republic of Dogs / Republic of Birds (2016).
January 8, 2018
Poetry, The Clearing
An Interview with Stephen Watts

Stephen Watts is a poet and translator based in East London. He has published numerous collections of poetry, including Mountain Language: Lingua di Montagne (translated by Cristina Viti, 2009) and Ancient Sunlight (2014), and the prose work Republic…
January 8, 2018
Poetry, The Clearing
New poems from David Troupes, Katherine Robinson and Robert Okaji

‘Some seeds are buried, others scattered.’ Poems by three American poets on landscapes close to their heart. Indian Brook by David Troupes A looking glass—a black gutter hurrying the…
December 11, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
New Poems from Sumana Roy

I Want To Be a Tree I want to be a tree. I know that this desire lives outside the curriculum. Irrationality is man’s favourite home – One man’s love…
October 30, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
Seasonal Change – New Poems from Jos Smith, Isabel Galleymore, Ben Smith and Luke Thompson

This week we mark a change in the editorial panel of The Clearing. For the last four years, since its beginnings in August 2013 with Katrina Porteous’ ‘The Refuge Box’, we have…
October 23, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
New Poems from Robert Peake and Jack Thacker

Collective A chastity of hawthorn, a smirch of blackberries, a wince of stinging nettle. Adam named the beasts, but the tribes of wildflower name themselves: You say “Grove of beeches.” They say,…
September 22, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
New Poems from Sally Flint

Dare The kingfishers appeared more like darting fish; their wings skimmed the dappled water, assured they knew the measure of every bend along their flight. We were surprised by their…
August 12, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
What Can Folk Horror Tell Us About Our Landscape? – Adam Scovell

Folk Horror is a term that has become synonymous with a wide variety of culture in recent years. From film and television to literature and music, the broadness of the description belies…
July 14, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
New Poems from Marc Woodward

Calf Eye The clump of gawkers stood around to watch a digger lift the dead calf from the beach. A Devon Red, it’s beaten hide sand-caked, twisted legs flung out,…
April 6, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing
Fell Year by Kelly Sullivan

Fell Year 1. As if there was snow. Petals across the paths, knee deep of them, the flowers battered in a gale and lightning raked across the patch of…
March 24, 2017
Poetry, The Clearing