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Places of Poetry: a northerly aspect by Kayo Chingonyi
…here where the landscape is a long conversation …
October 15, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing
Time and Place by Alexandra Harris – an extract
In medieval almanacs the year was often represented on a dial, with the months arranged around the edge.
October 9, 2019
Essay, The Clearing
Wild Horses by James Roberts
Our relationship with the wild, and with what’s left of the wild inside us, is at a critical stage.
September 23, 2019
Essay, The Clearing
Places of Poetry: A Night Jar by Jack Underwood
I wanted to look inside the eye of that bird. I had heard its message, become obsessed.
September 9, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing
Places of Poetry: Happy Meal
We come with such force The Toon splits in two Exalting, we’re bolting, revolting, we’re through
September 9, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing
Ivy bees by Philip Strange
…the air seems to be suffused with a liquid energy.
September 9, 2019
Essay, The Clearing
Lissen Every Thing Back by Kathleen Jamie
Perhaps we should launch a Campaign for Real Noticing.
September 4, 2019
Essay, The Clearing
New poetry by Sharon Phillips
sacred to the memory slab of gritstone dark with summer drizzle
September 3, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing
GAVDIVM: new work by Seán Lysaght
Our hearts are pitched forward Into the foreknown Because we cannot stay forever And soon must spiral away
August 28, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing
Eddie and the Birds by David Higgins
At twenty months, Eddie is still interested in birds, but they now have to compete with larger and noisier entities for space within his imagination.
August 19, 2019
Essay, The Clearing
Paul Kingsnorth in conversation with Charles Foster: a podcast
A conversation between Paul Kingsnorth and Charles Foster, to mark the publication of Savage Gods.
August 19, 2019
Podcast, The Clearing
Places of Poetry: Navigating Diglis by Isabel Galleymore
This water is like a long tail, swishing. This water is running wild and WARNING:
August 12, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing