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Peter Larkin – Excerpt from ‘Eyes on Open Leaves’
“Eyes on Open Leaves” was suggested to me by a reference to a journal collection by the poet Lorand Gaspard called Feuilles d’Observation. It made me want to take the title literally…
October 16, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Rupert Loydell – Long Distance Conjuring
This week we’re publishing just one poem by Rupert Loydell. A minimalist piece inspired by a minimalist form of music. Lost Trail is the ambient drone noise experiment of duo Zachary Corsa…
September 17, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
An Interview with Katrina Porteous
Katrina Porteous’s recent collection of poems, Two Countries, from Bloodaxe is the fruit of ten years work. The book is a work of some significance to the contemporary cultures of landscape and…
September 4, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Kym Martindale and Caroline Blythe – Re/Tracings
In 1913, Edward Thomas wrote his last prose narrative, an account of a bicycle journey from Guildford to Somerset, In Pursuit of Spring. It describes a landscape on the brink of change, but…
August 20, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Clayscape: Three Poets
In April The Clearing’s Luke Thompson and Isabel Galleymore took a group of Falmouth University students to Wheal Martyn, the China Clay Park and Museum on the edge of a working clay…
August 6, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Jean Atkin – Eglwyseg Day
[11.09 am] path up through windclipped gorse, wind in the eye & such yellow splashes through the heather sheep-cropped mounds & sink-holes of the mines all smooth as china cups…
June 25, 2015
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New Work from Camilla Nelson and Alex Josephy
This week’s poems prompt an adventure into woodlands to explore the transformative and threatening qualities in emergence. Through scales at once microscopic and macroscopic, these new poems by Camilla Nelson and Alex Josephy explore the inhabitants of…
May 21, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Four Ways of Looking at the Coast
This week we’re visiting the coast, that vibrant boundary zone, or ecotone, that has proved as intensely alive imaginatively as it has ecologically. Rachel Carson reminds us that ‘the edge of the…
May 7, 2015
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James Roberts – Three New Poems
The Crossing A barn metal roof folded flung open floor laminated with a century’s dung its surface an ooze on which old Tom has her roped down underhalf dripping with…
April 10, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Midwinter Poems of Faith
We are delighted to be publishing three poets this Midwinter whose works explore questions of faith. Somerset, Devon and Cornwall are represented here with exciting new writing from Toby Martinez de las…
December 19, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
New Poems from Isabel Galleymore and Ben Smith
This week we are celebrating the launch of new chapbooks from two of The Clearing’s editorial team: Dazzle Ship by Isabel Galleymore and Sky Burials by Ben Smith, both of which are published…
November 14, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Dan Eltringham – Forced Fingers
We are very pleased this week to be publishing an extract from the sequence Forced Fingers by Dan Eltringham. Drawing on the language of folk wisdom, global agribusiness, literary pastoral and eighteenth-century debates around enclosure, Forced…
October 16, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing