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Nature Writing by Jeremy Hughes
You see your childhood in your green-leafed head.
Sticklebacks and newts in a stringed glass jar
April 1, 2025
Poetry, The Clearing
The painter’s chair / Attending by Fiona Sampson
like a new
thought or like
the curlew’s
call that
doublejoints
across the Sound
December 3, 2024
Poetry, The Clearing
Dear Kadu by Pam Zinneman-Hope
At the beach we hunt
among Jurassic clays and shales
scanning and sifting the Charmouth shingle,
searching the shoreline.
July 22, 2024
Poetry, The Clearing
A Chiffchaff Sings by Martin Maudsley
And I thought to myself:
He has seen nearly a century of seasons –
Fresh flowers, leathery leaves, ripe fruit.
May 13, 2024
Poetry, The Clearing
Six New Poems by Daril Bentley
The profession and art of direction
as by flash of fish in the sea.
How flawless synchronized swimming
in the air is done.
April 15, 2024
Poetry, The Clearing
Threads, a community poem
Red, it’s my colour,
the cuffs rippling in the wind,
Hung lazily off an arm.
September 8, 2023
Poetry, The Clearing
Robin Walter reads Arbor Vitae
Robin Walter reads his poem Arbor Vitae.
July 17, 2023
Film, Poetry, Reading, The Clearing
At the Very End of the Road by Phillip Edwards, an extract
…fine nebulae of plovers high above loose weavings of lapwings above tighter sprays of redshanks…
June 14, 2022
Diary, Essay, Poetry, The Clearing
A Pink and A Blue Field and A Form by Mark Goodwin
we stride across
a snow-rosy
crust our steps
January 6, 2022
Poetry, The Clearing
Hiraeth and Hwyl: Backwater Boy by Manoel de Barros (translated by Malcolm K McNee)
My grandpa courted the solitude.
He was a bouquet of lonesomeness.
September 27, 2021
Poetry, The Clearing
Hiraeth and Hwyl: Vanish by Kathy Miles
Maps are useless now, in a world of blinded
signs. Mountains pull up roots, drift away
to the vanishing point like wandering erratics.
September 20, 2021
Poetry, The Clearing
Hiraeth and Hwyl: Escaping Ophelia by Richard Taylor
Abduction from a dream takes time tugging,
as love does
September 13, 2021
Poetry, The Clearing