How to Paint a Ditch by Hugh Dunford Wood
We all pass through, for a Holloway is not quite of this world.
September 29, 2020Hope’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, 2020Shap to Plumgarths by David Banning
a song scattering a trail of columns and façades throughout the north of England.
September 7, 2020Chorus by James Roberts
A pink-headed fruit dove has just opened its eyes and uttered a soft, almost inaudible hoo.
September 1, 2020Field notes from an African anthropologist by JC Niala
The ladybirds have crossed a boundary and boundaries are the demarcations of belonging.
August 18, 2020Where 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, 2020Flower Grace by Philip Strange
I saw the grace of the butterfly and how, in turn, it lends this grace to the flower.
August 12, 2020Dear 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 glassAugust 11, 2020From 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, 2020You 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 seaJuly 20, 2020From 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, 2020From 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
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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.
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