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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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      • What flows beneath: an interview with Tom Bolton

        London is inexhaustible. It’s a place you can never truly get to the bottom of.

        January 6, 2020
        Interview, The Clearing
      • Artefact: A footnote by Jo Sweeting

        I have carved words every day for years: on the skin, into the body of stone.

        December 4, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Learning a Stone by Beatrice Searle

        I wait a few seconds and tap along the line again then pause to hear the sound emitted by the stone.

        December 4, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Artefact: The Explosives Factory by Louise Kenward

        The land holds their memory. His films remind me of times I hadn’t known and don’t remember.

        December 3, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Artefact: Church of the Storms by Alex Woodcock

        The branch of a tree scraped against the window, breaking my reminiscence.

        December 2, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • 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, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Interchange by John Wedgwood Clarke

        She squeezes the stone in her hand. Light ripples along traffic cones.

        November 19, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Ring of Downs: Extracts by Maryanne Grant Traylen

        Dog imprisons the thing, clamping it into his quivering, jaunty jaw…

        October 23, 2019
        Diary, The Clearing
      • Places 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, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Places of Poetry: a northerly aspect by Kayo Chingonyi

        …here where the landscape is a long conversation …

        October 15, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Time 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, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Wild 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, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
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