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      • Places 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, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Ivy bees by Philip Strange

        …the air seems to be suffused with a liquid energy.

        September 9, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Protected: Lissen Every Thing Back by Kathleen Jamie

        There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

        September 4, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • New poetry by Sharon Phillips

        sacred to the memory slab of gritstone dark with summer drizzle

        September 3, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • GAVDIVM: 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
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Paul Kingsnorth in conversation with Charles Foster: a podcast

        A conversation between Paul Kingsnorth and Charles Foster, to mark the publication of Savage Gods.

        August 19, 2019
        Podcast, The Clearing
      • Places of Poetry: Navigating Diglis by Isabel Galleymore

        This water is like a long tail, swishing. This water is running wild and WARNING:

        August 12, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Places of Poetry: Got by Jo Bell

        Men who blasted air into the rock and dragged out muck, who set each other’s bones and got home on the dot

        August 12, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Places of Poetry: The Haruspex by Neil Rollinson

        Some fools ponder the leaves of tea, or study the flight paths of birds,

        August 12, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Four new poems by Steve Xerri

        Did moments fall dense as these do, faintly spiced with pollen and fungus,

        August 5, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • A Rewilding Diary by Emily Warner

        the whisper of shoals of fish at our ankles and the tug of the water around our chests.

        July 31, 2019
        Diary, The Clearing
      • Day at the Zawn by Tim Martindale

        When I stumbled across the photo in a desk drawer a few years ago, it was as if the past rushed up to meet me

        July 29, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
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