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          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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        • Harry and Pierse by Hana LoftusWhat drew Becker to crouch in the fields day after day, obsessively documenting his neighbours as they worked?
        • Montol and Midwinter Light by Ysella SimsWe wind through the streets, the rain giving way to the winds of the next winter storm.
        • The Lost Dens of Leicester by Sharon TyersSixty years later, I often find myself deep within our den in my dreams.
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    • Hiraeth 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, 2021
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Hiraeth 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, 2021
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Hiraeth and Hwyl: Neighbours/Cymdogion by Marged Pendrell

      New work, a flotilla of boats constructed from the natural minerals of Snowdonia.

      September 21, 2021
      illustration, The Clearing
    • Hiraeth and Hwyl: Vanish by Kathy Miles

      Maps are useless now, in a world of blinded
      signs. Mountains pull up roots, drift away
      to the vanishing point like wandering erratics.

      September 20, 2021
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Hiraeth and Hwyl: The Home Path by Jane Brox

      There is a lot for me to love in this town along a harder, colder coast.

      September 20, 2021
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Hiraeth and Hwyl: Escaping Ophelia by Richard Taylor

      Abduction from a dream takes time tugging,
      as love does

      September 13, 2021
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Hiraeth and Hwyl: Last Gilt by Menna Elfyn

      In her spell on the air, on a wing, fierce rain.
      Breath soared over clouds, crossing time as in heaven

      September 1, 2021
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Hiraeth and Hwyl: Ketamine Dreams by Sophie Willard Van Sistine

      The artist Sophie Willard Van Sistine reflects on the impact of the medication she takes for her chronic depression in this brilliant and personal visual essay

      September 1, 2021
      Essay, illustration, The Clearing
    • Hiraeth and Hwyl: an introduction by Pamela Petro

      Hiraeth is the name the Welsh have given to the gap, the space—call it ‘the long field’—between my two experiences of home.

      September 1, 2021
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Remembrance to the boar by Chloe Broadfield

      My identity, as much as theirs, is entangled with the mountain rock and the wild thyme, the ibex and the boar.

      September 1, 2021
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Lincolnshire Voices: a photographic coda by Neil Sentance

      Now there was a general air of dereliction, as if the mellowed bricks knew they’d soon be demolished to red dust.

      August 23, 2021
      Essay, Photography, The Clearing
    • Extracts from a Nature Journal by Alex Boon

      The heath full of leggy looking foxgloves coming to their end.

      August 9, 2021
      Essay, illustration, The Clearing
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    About

    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.



    Submissions

    The editors welcome original submissions in written, audio and visual genres. Submission should reflect The Clearing/Little Toller’s concern with the natural environment, but within this broad subject-matter we encourage a diversity of interpretation and approach.

    If you’d like to submit work to The Clearing, please email theclearing@littletoller.co.uk. Please refer to the submission guidelines. While we receive many submissions we will get back to you as soon as we are able.

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    Whats in the name

    Tollern river valley in West Dorset. Recorded in the Domesday survey as Tolre, derived from a Celtic word for stream in a hollow valley.

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