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New poems from Richard Skelton
Richard Skelton is an artist, composer and publisher. He has written over seven books and thirty albums of music. Together with the Canadian poet Autumn Richardson, he runs Corbel Stone Press. The…
March 10, 2017New Poems from Matt Howard
Reed sweet-grass A quarter acre of it, mowed down the low meadow for the clearing. Frost and stubble among the rides. Dominant and too coarse to bale, a day’s work, with…
February 3, 2017‘Edge States’ from Philip Gross
Edge States Mänttä /Jyväskylä, Finland, October 1. Sunlight, late in the year, the edge of winter. Light like stainless steel. Just out of hearing, the ring of its thin blades…
January 6, 2017The Song of Place by Tim Dee
It stands to reason, but it is still striking for us rootless and shifting human types to learn that it is possible to see, and so believe, that the life living in…
December 16, 2016Yggdrasil in Shetland, by Jen Hadfield
For National Tree Week, here is Jen Hadfield on the trees of Shetland. This piece is an extract from Arboreal, a new woodland anthology published by Little Toller Books. My aunt owns…
November 29, 2016New Poems by Rebecca Hurst
Familiar She has some small skill with these things making balm, potions, cooking almost— a dream of cooking. As when we were children making mud pies and jelly from yew…
November 11, 2016New Poems from Zeina Hashem Beck
Photo: ‘Tripoli Clock Tower’ by Natheer Halawani www.natheerhalawani.com ROOM 607 By then the doctors had removed the tubes that came out of your lung; by then your fever had dropped and…
October 28, 2016New Poems from Anna Cathenka
composition by [thawing] field this poem has a rime on it jutting ice crystals covering space like a white mould a lichen sonnet the birds in this poem describe patterns …
September 29, 2016Two Marine Poems by Isabel Galleymore
The Evening Shift 1. matronly strawberry sea anemone and this one some 50’s pin-up 2. waiter coming in on the evening shift the snails in their ancient restaurant booths …
September 9, 2016‘The Tin Lodes’ – A New Poetry Sequence by Andy Brown
The following sequence of sonnets is part of a collaborative book project between myself and the poet Marc Woodward. We live on opposite sides of the Teign river estuary, with Dartmoor to…
August 26, 2016New Poems from Penelope Shuttle
St Clether August The Well Sheep-warm day, pilgrim rain rolling up the valley, half-listening to the quiet river skimming the long mist-smitten fold of the Inny Vale,…
August 12, 2016from SLAVA, ISLAND, by Sarah Cave
Granite shelves yellow-faced the heron solitude beaks his habit wings protect him from callous wind flight the lighthouse with its vision seeks him Skin clad curragh…
July 28, 2016
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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