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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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      • 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
      • 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
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