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Places of Poetry: a northerly aspect by Kayo Chingonyi
…here where the landscape is a long conversation …
October 15, 2019Places 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, 2019New poetry by Sharon Phillips
sacred to the memory slab of gritstone dark with summer drizzle
September 3, 2019GAVDIVM: new work by Seán Lysaght
Our hearts are pitched forward Into the foreknown Because we cannot stay forever And soon must spiral away
August 28, 2019Places of Poetry: Navigating Diglis by Isabel Galleymore
This water is like a long tail, swishing. This water is running wild and WARNING:
August 12, 2019Places of Poetry: Got by Jo Bell
Men who blasted air into the rock and dragged out muck, who set each other’s bones and got home on the dot
August 12, 2019Places of Poetry: The Haruspex by Neil Rollinson
Some fools ponder the leaves of tea, or study the flight paths of birds,
August 12, 2019Four new poems by Steve Xerri
Did moments fall dense as these do, faintly spiced with pollen and fungus,
August 5, 2019Places of Poetry: Evensong by Jen Hadfield
Child, whatever weather is our hellish hand-me-down to you,
July 23, 2019Places of Poetry: Caernarfon by Gillian Clarke
Twelve-eighty-two, a hundred crow-miles south,
they killed Llywelyn, while kite and raven
scrawled skies over Cilmeri’s bloody earth.July 23, 2019Places of Poetry: STONE CIRCLE by Will Harris
poets liken things to other things which can lessen them because a thing likened is less singular
July 23, 2019The Eternal Roar of the Dragon by Andreas Kornevall
This dark reptile, which we still see in storms, lightning and seething whirlpools, rises to the heavens or sinks to the roots of the Tree of Life.
July 1, 2019
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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