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Eight West Dorset Church Porches by Alison Bunning and Virginia Astley

Stepping between diagonal buttresses
they climb the lichened steps
below the swallows’ nests and crenellations
to the shrine of St Wite.

April 12, 2021

illustration, Poetry, The Clearing
New poems by Graham Mort

There are the red cattle, woken
from a cave painting, daubed
with red clay into an old religion

February 19, 2021

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Happy the Man by Gareth Evans

Happy the man who hears no birds above the clamour of his false words

January 15, 2021

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Red Lady by Baz Nichols

with arms outstretched
the ochre dressings of bones
decline in wave-cut arches

August 25, 2020

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Dear White West Country People by Louisa Adjoa Parker

We’ve watched the same cattle, heads bent to the grass
Stood by the same sea, that sheet of blue glass

August 11, 2020

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You Came To Me by Autumn Richardson

I feel you as a current
as dark, as sinuous, as
a cormorant slipping through
the belly of the sea

July 20, 2020

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Saltwater Zodiac (for Edith Rimmington) by Alex Woodcock

And on Bexhill Beach where the veil, Of each day is ice cream and shingle, I am still making work,Though it is late and I am not who I was.

February 17, 2020

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Ancient Hollow Grief by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

All is not lost. There is still time. We are still here, and we must remember that it is in the day to day living that we must change things…

February 3, 2020

Essay, Poetry, The Clearing
Interchange by John Wedgwood Clarke

She squeezes the stone in her hand. Light ripples along traffic cones.

November 19, 2019

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Places of Poetry: Oval Time by Zaffar Kunial

The O of their open mouths watching a last innings. A last Test. Of not knowing how many summers you’ll have left.

October 15, 2019

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Places of Poetry: a northerly aspect by Kayo Chingonyi

…here where the landscape is a long conversation …

October 15, 2019

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Places of Poetry: A Night Jar by Jack Underwood

I wanted to look inside the eye of that bird. I had heard its message, become obsessed.

September 9, 2019

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