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      • 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
      • Daily Photo by Bob Gibbons

        I think these are amongst the most gorgeously elegant birds that I know. This is a black-necked Stilt* feeding along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in winter.

        June 29, 2020
        Diary, Photography, The Clearing
      • The Corvid’s Shadow by Rose Fulton

        “We were on a walk in the forest above our house when a crow flew over. We watched as its shadow went passed us on the ground.”

        June 25, 2020
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Jeff Young reading from Ghost Town

        This is where nana, Queen of Red Rock Street, sat at the kitchen table, spooning sugar into glasses of lemonade to take away the fizz.

        June 23, 2020
        Reading, The Clearing
      • This Wall by Sarah Hymas

        Unlike a footprint on the moon, deep as the day it was made, the tracks made during the lighthouse repair are sluiced slowly by tides.

        June 15, 2020
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Red kite – back from the brink by Jodie Bond

        She boasts a shimmer of feathers, tobacco and rust, a phoenix echo as they catch the fire of sunset.

        June 5, 2020
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The Ground is All Memoranda by Gill Horitz

        The other night I woke to the sound of a car drawing up to the house, then another and another…

        May 18, 2020
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Corvid Tales on Covid Days by Suzanne Joinson

        Even now, if you listen carefully you can hear the ghost of Boney in the trees.

        May 12, 2020
        Diary, The Clearing
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