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Hugh 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, 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, 2014Philip Gross – Two Snow Poems
Philip Gross is an award-winning poet, novelist and a teacher of creative writing. In 2009 his collection The Water Table won the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry. ‘Snow the Cartographer’ appears…
February 6, 2014Alan M. Kent and M.J. Forster
CONVERSATIONS WITH A BRETON WOODSMAN Sawdust sticks to the sweat on his philtrum, this moist August, here in Melioneg, where his bark-born hands guide timber from the woods at Ar…
January 30, 2014David Troupes – from ‘God of Corn’
These poems are from a developing sequence titled God of Corn. Each poem begins with a line or passage from J G Holland’s 1865 multi-volume book A History of Western Massachusetts. The project…
January 17, 2014Nathan Thompson – from ‘Signs’
Near Exeter Prison, on Blackall Road, there’s an old metal plaque on a wall that reads: I don’t like text in art but walking along this road holding the hand of…
January 3, 2014Sarianne Durie – Landscapes
THE ICE BOOK OF CHINA after Xu Bing Bees rise from fragrant grasses Patterns repeat on terraced ground lines repeat lines echo lines Character of tree…
December 6, 2013Matthew Griffiths and Sarah Taylor Silverwood
THE NEW BUILDING The new building first made itself noticed that evening as some of the others shuffled aside like commuters, not quite making room for one more person. …
November 22, 2013David Hart – New Poems
The Clearing is very pleased to present four new poems by David Hart. David grew up in rural Wales but has spent most of his life living in Birmingham where he…
November 7, 2013Four New Animal Poems
As a species, some of our first forays into art were inspired by the animal kingdom, suggesting that underpinning all our most scrutinised later taxonomies there has always been a creativity and…
October 25, 2013Eleanor Rees – Two Liverpool Poems
This week Eleanor Rees explores the way the poem can move around an urban neighbourhood on the outskirts of Liverpool. Eleanor is the author of Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) and Eliza and…
October 12, 2013
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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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