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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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    • Happy the Man by Gareth Evans

      Happy the man who hears no birds above the clamour of his false words

      January 15, 2021
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Birds of Firle by Tanya Shadrick

      Twenty-one rooks printed and stuck into that fifty-pence notebook. To be offered in turn to anyone, anywhere, who would write back with their thoughts.

      December 30, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Placing the Mark, Marking the Place by B. G. Nichols

      Over time, I began to transfer my little votives from one place to another, creating invisible filaments, lines of organic energy that connected me to a place.

      December 7, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • A Rewilding Diary by Emily Warner

      My work in Glen Affric has also been a tale of collaboration: friends, field-assistants and family giving themselves wholly to my fieldwork for chunks of time.

      November 30, 2020
      Diary, The Clearing
    • Walking boots and binoculars by George Hassall

      These moors are Britain’s wet deserts, drowned by rain pretty much every day and howled by the winds.

      November 25, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Seasonal Disorder by Martin Maudsley

      But letting go is not the same as losing something. Without the wind in my sails I was helplessly, horribly becalmed. Like the songbirds in summer, I’d lost my voice, and the world around me changed its tune.

      November 21, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • The Emboughered by Dickie Straker

      Last night, I rambled through memory paths, leaf litter, the sounds of dawn and dusk and the spicy aroma of autumn, of carp slime, beech mast and silt.

      November 10, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • TREE: Living Near Woods by Gill Horitz

      When words were no longer on the tip of my mother’s tongue one of the first to go was ‘tree’.

      November 6, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • TREE: Sometimes a Moon by Jane Routh

      The summer view of the hills is filtered through its green leaflets, just beginning to yellow as I write this at the beginning of October.

      November 2, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • TREE: Life Cycle by Ruth Bradshaw

      The amorphous, anonymous mass of tangled greenery that I have too often ignored on previous visits to the woods begins to take on a new significance.

      November 2, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Walking with the moors by Ella Taylor

      I wade into the unknown water, cautious not to make any sudden movements.

      October 5, 2020
      Essay, The Clearing
    • How to Paint a Ditch by Hugh Dunford Wood

      We all pass through, for a Holloway is not quite of this world.

      September 29, 2020
      Essay, 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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    From the Archive

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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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