The Clearing - a journal of nature, landscape and place.

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Hope’s Photos
Hope is now 8 years old and we think she’s got a lovely way of noticing the wildlife around her.
September 20, 2020
Photography, The Clearing
Shap to Plumgarths by David Banning
a song scattering a trail of columns and façades throughout the north of England.
September 7, 2020
Essay, Film, The Clearing
Chorus by James Roberts
A pink-headed fruit dove has just opened its eyes and uttered a soft, almost inaudible hoo.
September 1, 2020
Essay, The Clearing
Field notes from an African anthropologist by JC Niala
The ladybirds have crossed a boundary and boundaries are the demarcations of belonging.
August 18, 2020
Essay, The Clearing
Where are you really from? by Louisa Adjoa Parker
Racism is everywhere. It spreads like a pandemic, is passed down the generations like an heirloom.
August 17, 2020
Essay, The Clearing
Flower Grace by Philip Strange
I saw the grace of the butterfly and how, in turn, it lends this grace to the flower.
August 12, 2020
Essay, The Clearing
Dear White West Country People by Louisa Adjoa Parker
We’ve watched the same cattle, heads bent to the grass
Stood by the same sea, that sheet of blue glass
August 11, 2020
Poetry, The Clearing
From Here: Meet Becca, from Bridport
I soon became familiar with a sense of alienation after various experiences of being singled out and discriminated towards because of my race.
July 29, 2020
Interview, The Clearing
You Came To Me by Autumn Richardson
I feel you as a current
as dark, as sinuous, as
a cormorant slipping through
the belly of the sea
July 20, 2020
Poetry, The Clearing
From Here: Meet Sinéad, from Dorchester
People of Colour enjoy nature like everyone else. We love going to the beach and going for countryside walks.
July 14, 2020
Interview, The Clearing
From Here: Meet Martha, from the Cotswolds
I’ve lived in the city for ten years now in a community that feels like home but a landscape that doesn’t.
July 7, 2020
Interview, The Clearing
From Here: Meet Tamzin, from Cornwall
Tamzin has experienced overt racism and threats of violence towards her family. ‘One time a lady rang my mum’s doorbell at about 8 am and told her to get her “half-castes out”
June 30, 2020
Interview, The Clearing