Tag / Dorset
Flights of Respair by Martin Maudsley
The magic spell woven by moths that morning was utterly instant and completely captivating.
July 7, 2025Walking the Bride by Kevan Manwaring
Surely, the river belongs to the whole valley and all who love it.
June 13, 2025The Man of Blackmore Vale by Jonathan Law
How do we separate the reality of a place, a region, from our private hopes and nostalgias?
April 7, 2025Dear Kadu by Pam Zinneman-Hope
At the beach we hunt
among Jurassic clays and shales
scanning and sifting the Charmouth shingle,
searching the shoreline.
July 22, 2024A Manifesto for Chesil by Sarah Acton
I acknowledge memory in multiple dimensions, where the collective power to make change lies. I will gather, collect, create, unafraid of storms that will pass through.
January 15, 2024Jon Woolcott talking about and reading from Real Dorset
Jon Woolcott at the Little Toller Bookshop, talking about Real Dorset, in conversation with Martin Maudsley
July 10, 2023Sarah Acton at The Salt House, West Bay
Sarah Acton at The Salt House, West Bay, Bridport, speaking about Seining Along Chesil.
December 19, 2022Tea and Talks at Weymouth Museum with Sarah Acton
Sarah Acton speaking about and reading from her new book, Seining Along Chesil.
December 19, 2022Sarah Acton at Dorset Museum
Sarah Acton with Dom Moxom at Dorset Museum, speaking about Seining Along Chesil.
December 19, 2022Sarah Acton at Sherborne Library
Sarah Acton speaking about her book Seining Along Chesil at Sherborne Library
December 19, 2022Sarah Acton at Portland Library
Sarah Acton speaking about and reading from her book Seining Along Chesil at Portland Library
December 19, 2022Sarah Acton and Gail McGarva at Woodmead Hall
Sarah Acton in conversation with Gail McGarva
December 19, 2022
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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.
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