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The Virtues of Ash
VIRGIL Fraxinus in sylvis pulcherrima, pinus in hortis, Populus in fluviis, abies in montibus altis (The ash is the most beautiful tree in the woods, the pine in gardens, the poplar by…
September 29, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Amanda Bell – Two New Poems
BURREN VULTURE Captive at the raptor centre, far from the dakhma, you hop among spectators – plucked neck undulating towards your prehistoric head. The crowd gasps at your…
September 18, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Tim Cresswell – Two New Poems
FOSTER COAT Ewes are excellent mothers they need lambs in lambing season. So when a lamb is still-born or dies hung hanging from the birth canal the farmer skins it…
September 5, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Yvonne Reddick – Three New Poems
Yvonne Reddick is a Research Fellow in Modern English and World Literatures at the University of Lancashire. She was shortlisted for the Jane Martin Memorial Prize this year and selected to be…
August 7, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Philip Lancaster – Two New Poems
RELIC OF HOPE Pale sky-bound hand of earth thrust up from hollowed ground’s soul; once dark, full-fleshed, exhaling bright speech through thick wild word-wood of iron gall; a now…
July 11, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Robert Crawford – Two New Poems
LONGING Over the standing stones of Machrie Moor Starlight discharges midges across Arran. The sea is a heron’s breast; desire Moist lips in front of banked thunderclouds. Daylight, an…
June 26, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Camilla Nelson – Three New Poems
Camilla Nelson is a poet, artist and researcher, currently based in Somerset. She successfully completed a PhD in ‘Reading…
June 13, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Mark Goodwin – ‘Serpent & Sea-Window’
SERPENT & SEA-WINDOW I Just about to step into a Tintagel Church’s graveyard: I’m first met by a long-stemmed stone-bloom of war memorial Celtic cross, its cross-arms…
May 16, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Paul Evans – Herbaceous
Celebrating the turning of the seasons this week we’re ‘bringing the may’ with a selection from Paul Evans’ extremely enjoyable new book of ‘audacious botany’ featuring illustrations by Kurt Jackson. Out this…
May 1, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Jo Bell – Two New Poems
PASSING TIME Under the flyover, the 21 deep locks, a flight of graves. And then the road, the yellow houses, neither-nor-lands, scrub and stream. The new estates with spider…
April 25, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
“All is Lithogenesis” – Three Stony Poems
“All is lithogenesis” wrote Hugh MacDiarmid in ‘On a Raised Beach’ suggesting that all creation is founded on stone and its geological processes of formation and change. But he also suggests…
April 11, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Rupert Loydell – Three New Poems
Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including…
March 28, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing