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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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      • The White in the Woods by Richard Hibbert

        From stubby twigs or chunks of wood, ones that were especially replete with water, come the most spectacular flowers of frost.

        February 24, 2021
        Essay, The Clearing
      • New poems by Graham Mort

        There are the red cattle, woken
        from a cave painting, daubed
        with red clay into an old religion

        February 19, 2021
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • To draw in the footsteps of ghosts by Christine Mackey

        Christine Mackey explores the relationship that communities have with newly-planted woodlands.

        February 3, 2021
        Film, The Clearing
      • Ice Works by Martin Hesp

        Snow meant: you do what you want, while nothing else moves and nothing else is happening. This is your white world.

        February 1, 2021
        Essay, The Clearing
      • On Entering the Wrong Carriage by Rachel J Fenton

        Only I am taking things slow, of course; nature is busy. The pear tree that two weeks ago resembled me bowed by the weekly grocery shop now has its branches empty.

        January 26, 2021
        Essay, The Clearing
      • 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
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