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Stonework by Rose Ferraby and Mark Edmonds
Exploreing the human labour that an abiding mark upon the Cumbrian Fells.
June 11, 2016Poems from Heath by Penelope Shuttle and John Greening
Traversing ideas of landscape and time, treading new paths across Hounslow Heath.
June 11, 2016Extracts from Undercurrents by Amanda Bell
An extract from Amanda Bell’s Undercurrents: a psychogeography of Irish rivers in haiku and haibun.
May 23, 2016James Roberts – Three New Poems
James Roberts lives in the Black Mountains. He co-edits Zoomorphic magazine. Recent poetry has been published by Agenda and Cinnamon Press. A novella “The Man in the Mountain.” was published in 2015.
May 23, 2016Watery Landscapes
Simon Turner was born in Birmingham in 1980, and currently lives in Warwickshire. He has published two full collections, most recently Difficult Second Album (Nine Arches Press, 2010); a pamphlet, Works on Paper, was published by Seren in 2015.
April 22, 2016Luke Thompson and Mairead Dunne: from ‘the clearing’
Four poems from ‘the clearing’ a forthcoming pamphlet written by Luke Thompson, illustrated by Mairead Dunne.
April 7, 2016Alison Brackenbury: Three New Poems
Not a Victorian orchard tree which ladders wobbled round, no rose-red pippin, whose veined flesh old men in Kent once found. . .
March 25, 2016From ‘swims’ by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
swims is a long poem by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett documenting a series of wild swims across the UK. The poem starts and ends in Devon, her home county, but takes in Somerset, Surrey, the…
February 19, 2016Five New Poems from Annabel Banks
These poems are part of Annabel Bank’s practice-based PhD, ‘Poetry and the Archive’, which brings together material from the eighteenth-century letters of the Boulton and Watt Mining Company, archived in the…
February 4, 2016Four New Poems from Polly Atkin
SOLSTITIAL We are drawn by a map of sweet ash winding through the twilit streets. There should be three fires: one of clean bones, one wood, one both. We…
December 3, 2015Karl O’Hanlon – Purdysburn House
The country house poem is sub-genre of topographical poetry popular in the seventeenth century. Famous examples exist by Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, and Andrew Marvell. In this form the poet would praise…
November 20, 2015‘Silken demon’: Two Animal Poems
This week in The Clearing two poems by Holly Corfield-Carr and Polly Atkin journey into the night to find species both familiar and exotic. BRAKE LIGHTS by Holly Corfield-Carr OOOOoOOOOAs she…
October 29, 2015
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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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