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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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        • Harry and Pierse by Hana LoftusWhat drew Becker to crouch in the fields day after day, obsessively documenting his neighbours as they worked?
        • Montol and Midwinter Light by Ysella SimsWe wind through the streets, the rain giving way to the winds of the next winter storm.
        • The Lost Dens of Leicester by Sharon TyersSixty years later, I often find myself deep within our den in my dreams.
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    • 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
    • Beyond 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, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Six New Poems by Chris Waters

      the bright, beckoning constellations encoded within the egg-shell dome of your skull.

      June 10, 2019
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Good Person by Melissa Harrison

      I am a good person. I watched Blue Planet II and I agree with Extinction Rebellion.

      June 5, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Iceland’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, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Birdsong 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
      Essay, The Clearing
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    About

    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.



    Submissions

    The editors welcome original submissions in written, audio and visual genres. Submission should reflect The Clearing/Little Toller’s concern with the natural environment, but within this broad subject-matter we encourage a diversity of interpretation and approach.

    If you’d like to submit work to The Clearing, please email theclearing@littletoller.co.uk. Please refer to the submission guidelines. While we receive many submissions we will get back to you as soon as we are able.

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    Whats in the name

    Tollern river valley in West Dorset. Recorded in the Domesday survey as Tolre, derived from a Celtic word for stream in a hollow valley.

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