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      • 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
      • 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, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Western 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, 2019
        Diary, The Clearing
      • Indefinite 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, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The 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, 2019
        Essay, Poetry, The Clearing
      • Transformation 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, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • My 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, 2019
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Two 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, 2019
        Poetry, The Clearing
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