Tag / Wales
Some Miraculous Promised Land by Richard Gwyn
In July 2021, I finally climbed Arenig Fawr.
July 14, 2025A Welcome from the White Cottage by Liz Williams
‘Wales was an old crush I couldn’t shake. The solitude of its remote coastlines; an oldness that boasted permanence’
December 17, 2024Commute of the Cormorants by Angela Evans
Notwithstanding the Dysynni valley’s scenic beauty, it is as much the result of human intervention as it is natural forces.
February 5, 2024Eisteddfod! And the Welsh Language Landscape by Julie Brominicks
The bus had cruised north, Y Rhinogydd crisply defined. We collected a musician sucking vodka through a straw at Porthmadog
August 21, 2023Milk by Robert Ashton
A hundred years ago, the Evans family were far from alone in keeping a cow in their backyard.
May 9, 2022Mike Parker’s Season Salon with Pamela Petro
A filmed conversation between Pamela Petro and Mike Parker, discussing hiraeth and belonging.
October 25, 2021Pamela Petro at Shrewsbury Literary Festival
Pamela Petro at the Shrewsbury Literary Festival
October 15, 2021Pamela Petro at Brassica, Beaminster
A very special event to celebrate the publication of The Long Field.
October 15, 2021Hiraeth and Hwyl: Backwater Boy by Manoel de Barros (translated by Malcolm K McNee)
My grandpa courted the solitude.
He was a bouquet of lonesomeness.September 27, 2021Hiraeth and Hwyl: The Sea of Content by Kumari Tilakawardane
The ocean doesn’t care one iota about you, or your body, your mind, your problems or your poorly thought-out grudges.
September 27, 2021Hiraeth and Hwyl: Neighbours/Cymdogion by Marged Pendrell
New work, a flotilla of boats constructed from the natural minerals of Snowdonia.
September 21, 2021Hiraeth and Hwyl: Escaping Ophelia by Richard Taylor
Abduction from a dream takes time tugging,
as love doesSeptember 13, 2021
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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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