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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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      • Flights of Respair by Martin Maudsley

        The magic spell woven by moths that morning was utterly instant and completely captivating.

        July 7, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Flotsam by Robin Crawford

        Beavers, elk, wild ox, brown bear, lynx and wolf have all been driven from the river.

        June 25, 2025
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      • Walking the Bride by Kevan Manwaring

        Surely, the river belongs to the whole valley and all who love it.

        June 13, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Snickets by Nic Wilson

        Many of the paths are old ways, repositories of long-forgotten stories.

        June 9, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Feeding the Hungry by Emma Rose Barber

        I walk on. In that excited city, there is a group of people queuing to get near the firework display.

        May 28, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • A Field with a View by Jane Ryan

        I knew that ownership was one key to the sense of safety that this meadow was offering us.

        May 6, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Leaf Litter by William Rowlandson

        And that is where the pain is. Like a medic in a war, patching up the wounded to patch up the wounded.

        April 22, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The Man of Blackmore Vale by Jonathan Law

        How do we separate the reality of a place, a region, from our private hopes and nostalgias?

        April 7, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Nature Writing by Jeremy Hughes

        You see your childhood in your green-leafed head.
        Sticklebacks and newts in a stringed glass jar

        April 1, 2025
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Watermark by Davina Quinlivan

        I stand on the threshold to her flat and watch myself close the door.

        March 21, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • In Pursuit of Today’s Spring by Ned Vessey

        It troubles me still, a year later, this state of knowing only through absence.

        March 17, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Pilgrim by Graham Mort

        We shake hands and he walks on uphill, limping slightly, bent against the wind.

        March 6, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
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