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Three Ways of Looking at a Tree
BERRIES by Jos Smith We were looking for your best side, a single photograph that captured HAWTHORN an image that said CLIFFTOP ENDURANCE or showed on a calm blue…
September 27, 2013Travis Macdonald – from ‘Concrete Jungle’
Travis Macdonald is the author of two full-length collections of poetry (The O Mission Repo and N7ostradamus) as well as several chapbooks. He currently lives in Philadelphia, PA where he works…
September 13, 2013Deborah Fass – Two New Poems
DROUGHT Where last night I walked alone, past the field to the parking lot – the silent field, at the end of the driest winter on record – …
August 29, 2013Katrina Porteous – Excerpts from ‘The Refuge Box’
Katrina Porteous lives on the Northumberland coast and is best known for her long radio-poems. The following excerpts are taken from one of these, ‘The Refuge Box’, which she made for BBC…
August 16, 2013
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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