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

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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
Spring and its discontents by Robin Walter
I am beginning to feel the strings tug and draw me up again, restoring my shape.
May 12, 2020
Essay, The Clearing
I’m a bat, I’m totally a bat
A father and son go for a spring bat walk at twilight.
May 8, 2020
Podcast, The Clearing
Magic Places by Sara Hudston
I look up from my desk now and see a male bullfinch nipping blackthorn buds, his smart coral and charcoal plumage vivid against white blossom.
April 20, 2020
Diary, The Clearing
Hortus Conclusus during a Pandemic by Suzanne Joinson
Now the lockdown is in full force I read Hortus in bed every night.
April 8, 2020
Diary, The Clearing