The Ramsbury Elm by Peter Marren
The village of Ramsbury, where I live, is best known for a natural landmark: a tree. It stands, or rather it stood, where four roads meet, in the exact centre of the…
December 2, 2019Interchange by John Wedgwood Clarke
She squeezes the stone in her hand. Light ripples along traffic cones.
November 19, 2019Ring of Downs: Extracts by Maryanne Grant Traylen
Dog imprisons the thing, clamping it into his quivering, jaunty jaw…
October 23, 2019Places of Poetry: Oval Time by Zaffar Kunial
The O of their open mouths watching a last innings. A last Test. Of not knowing how many summers you’ll have left.
October 15, 2019Places of Poetry: a northerly aspect by Kayo Chingonyi
…here where the landscape is a long conversation …
October 15, 2019Time and Place by Alexandra Harris – an extract
In medieval almanacs the year was often represented on a dial, with the months arranged around the edge.
October 9, 2019Wild Horses by James Roberts
Our relationship with the wild, and with what’s left of the wild inside us, is at a critical stage.
September 23, 2019Places of Poetry: A Night Jar by Jack Underwood
I wanted to look inside the eye of that bird. I had heard its message, become obsessed.
September 9, 2019Protected: Lissen Every Thing Back by Kathleen Jamie
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
September 4, 2019New poetry by Sharon Phillips
sacred to the memory slab of gritstone dark with summer drizzle
September 3, 2019GAVDIVM: new work by Seán Lysaght
Our hearts are pitched forward Into the foreknown Because we cannot stay forever And soon must spiral away
August 28, 2019
About
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.
Submissions
The editors welcome original submissions in written, audio and visual genres. Submission should reflect The Clearing/Little Toller’s concern with the natural environment, but within this broad subject-matter we encourage a diversity of interpretation and approach.
If you’d like to submit work to The Clearing, please email theclearing@littletoller.co.uk. Please refer to the submission guidelines. While we receive many submissions we will get back to you as soon as we are able.
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From the Archive
- The Water’s Question / The Wind’s Answer by Phil CopeThis was the time of the fiction of early promises. …
- Protected: White Horses, Kiwi, Trench by Susannah WalkerThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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