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      • 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
      • 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
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