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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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    • 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
    • The Peace Pledge Union camp at Swanwick in 1937

      Bread Salted with Tears by Ken Worpole

      ‘farming is not only work, but the witnessing of a great mystery, the mystery of birth and growth.’

      June 7, 2021
      Essay, The Clearing
    • GRIEF, PLACE, LANDSCAPE – Simon Moreton in conversation with Jeff Young

      Our relationship to the landscape and the places we move through or live in has always fascinated me.

      June 3, 2021
      illustration, Interview, The Clearing
    • GRIEF, PLACE, LANDSCAPE: For Sarah by Peony Gent

      I actively thought nothing about the Fens until a long time after I left them. They were a place I only grew to see when they became coloured with the contrast of living elsewhere.

      June 3, 2021
      Essay, illustration, The Clearing
    • GRIEF, PLACE, LANDSCAPE – A contradiction of sorts by Marie Smith

      I knew no-one but I enjoyed myself nevertheless; I met people in bars, managed to negotiate the city with tips from social media. I seemed to be carrying myself on an adventurous spirit that I never knew I had.

      June 1, 2021
      Essay, illustration, The Clearing
    • GRIEF, PLACE, LANDSCAPE – She Exhales by Maxim Peter Griffin

      you could buy a bungalow under the sea wall for buttons – she used to bring the kids here – they used to go up Jackson’s and pour coppers in the slots

      June 1, 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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    • Poetry (124)
    • Reading (2)
    • Short Story (1)

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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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