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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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    • Six Ashdown Forest Poems by Siân Thomas

      From Crowborough to gorse is a few minutes’ journey to the past,

      April 29, 2019
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Iain Sinclair on The Unofficial Countryside

      The Unofficial Countryside is a proper reckoning, the Doomsday Book of a topography too fascinating to be left alone.

      April 25, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • The Cottage in the Weald: Walter Murray and Copsford by Tom Wareham

      For nine months he lived there alone, gradually becoming more and more absorbed into nature and the landscape.

      April 15, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on the Fat of the Land

      For all these reasons, John Seymour’s is a voice that still needs to be heard, and a voice that can change lives, including perhaps yours.

      April 10, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Shelter from the storm – remembering W. S. Merwin by Michael Malay

      In this time of uncertain weather and relentless loss, to plant trees can be a radical act.

      April 8, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Turtle Dove by Chris Baker

      We sang Turtle Dove inside Copsale Hall, a corrugated iron-beauty surrounded by trees, erected the same year Williams collected the song.

      April 3, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • White Plastic Forks by Polly Butcher

      When I was younger, I remember waking to hear birdsong outside my window.

      March 22, 2019
      Essay
    • Stardust by Alex Woodcock

      The slab was the first thing in the van. A piece of Irish limestone about three feet by one foot by three inches thick. Probably the heaviest single thing I owned: I…

      March 21, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • A rewilding diary by Emily Warner

      Glen Affric in the throes of summer was a very different landscape to its April incarnation. Shades of orange and brown had been replaced by a spectrum of greens.

      March 20, 2019
      Diary, The Clearing
    • Robert Macfarlane on The South Country

      the best way to think of The South Country, in fact, is as a dream-map – by which I mean an act of imaginative cartography, a chart of longing and loss projected onto actual terrain.

      March 20, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Encountering Beauty by Amy Brady

      I’d imagined the flock as a cloud of wings, their calls sounding like laughter.

      February 18, 2019
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Ash Tree by Chris Poundwhite

      Myth in its fibres, wood made word; the fissured bark
      of Yggdrasil, world-tree, tree of Ask –

      February 11, 2019
      Poetry, 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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