Moon Palace, An Inuit Story of Transformation by Martin Shaw
The only thing up there was a Moon Palace, where she made her home.
July 9, 2019Western Red Cedar and Spruce Sapling by Amory Abbott
This month Little Toller publishes Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Savage Gods. For this series on The Clearing Paul invited poets, writers and artists from around the world to respond in their own…
July 4, 2019Indefinite by Nina Lyon
A few miles down the Wye from where it snakes away beneath the Dragon’s Back, there is a stretch of pebble beach.
July 3, 2019The Eternal Roar of the Dragon by Andreas Kornevall
This dark reptile, which we still see in storms, lightning and seething whirlpools, rises to the heavens or sinks to the roots of the Tree of Life.
July 1, 2019Transformation as Homecoming by Charles Foster
Alex was a merchant banker. One weekend, egged on by a new girlfriend who, bafflingly, had refused to sleep with him, he went off to a country house in the English Home Counties.
June 28, 2019My Plan by Paul Kingsnorth
I’m a writer, and to me this has always been a calling, a duty. It’s always been my guiding light, my personal mythology.
June 27, 2019Two new poems by Mark Waters
An ocean swells in the sockets of my eyes.A tidal wave rolls unseen between my bony coast of ribs.(all that caged water I call my heart and lungs and vital organs.)
June 26, 2019Beyond by Peter Reason and Sarah Gillespie
I cannot go to bed while the world is full of such haunting beauty, this twilight poised between day and night.
June 19, 2019Six New Poems by Chris Waters
the bright, beckoning constellations encoded within the egg-shell dome of your skull.
June 10, 2019Good Person by Melissa Harrison
I am a good person. I watched Blue Planet II and I agree with Extinction Rebellion.
June 5, 2019Iceland’s Green Mantle by Nancy Campbell
On that visit I learned that weather makes it perilous to explore the mountainous Tröllskagi region in winter.
May 7, 2019Birdsong by Jay Griffiths
If I offered my notation, birds seem to sing the names of composers (particularly Russian) – Straviiinski, Straviiinski, or Tchaíkovski, Tchaíkovski, Tchaí! Sometimes chirping Tippett, Tippett, Tippett then calling low and sweet Keeats, Keeats, Keeats.
April 30, 2019
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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.
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