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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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      • 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
      • Five New Poems by Julith Jedamus

        Standing by road and railway,
        you flaunt your modesty, wave
        dirty handkerchiefs at bankers
        and brides

        July 19, 2021
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Where the river flows out to the sea by Patrick Limb

        But sometimes, somehow, places are in your bones.

        July 15, 2021
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The Water’s Question / The Wind’s Answer by Phil Cope

        This was the time of the fiction of early promises. The uncomfortable compromise between the necessities of finding paid work and of safety.

        June 30, 2021
        Essay, Photography, The Clearing
      • Nature Doesn’t Always Taste Good by Peter Wohlleben

        the majority of the meals our ancestors ate tasted completely different from the meals we eat today.

        June 24, 2021
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Something of the Marvellous by Andrew Pastor and Patricia Barrett

        Waves ebbing over shingle, breaking over rocks, swirling around reefs – all here inland.

        June 15, 2021
        Essay, illustration, The Clearing
      • Simon Moreton at the Festival of Nature 2021

        Simon Moreton discusses his book WHERE? in this film for the Festival of Nature

        June 15, 2021
        Film, The Clearing
      • Meditative Rhythm by Ed Kluz

        the line between landscape and architecture becomes blurred, and a view of the farmhouse as a living organism emerges.

        June 7, 2021
        Essay, The Clearing
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