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

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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
Places of Poetry: Evensong by Jen Hadfield
Child, whatever weather is our hellish hand-me-down to you,
July 23, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing
Places of Poetry: Caernarfon by Gillian Clarke
Twelve-eighty-two, a hundred crow-miles south,
they killed Llywelyn, while kite and raven
scrawled skies over Cilmeri’s bloody earth.
July 23, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing
Places of Poetry: STONE CIRCLE by Will Harris
poets liken things to other things which can lessen them because a thing likened is less singular
July 23, 2019
Poetry, The Clearing
Coming Home by Hugh Tucker
…the road folded across the crest of the hills like metal beaten over an anvil.
July 22, 2019
Essay, The Clearing
The Language of “Issues” by Narendra
That which is without promise is evil and dwells in darkness…
July 11, 2019
Essay, The Clearing