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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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    • A rewilding diary by Emily Warner: introduction

      Glen Affric, where I have been based for my research, contains one of the largest remnants of Caledonian forest. Now reduced by centuries of human exploitation to scattered pockets, this habitat is home to a host of the UK’s wildest and rarest plants and animals.

      November 13, 2018
      Diary, The Clearing
    • A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: October

      Kingcombe is not just a place for enjoying the natural world, but for changing the way we view it, for telling new stories about our relationship with it.

      October 31, 2018
      Diary, The Clearing
    • Westernmost by Nicholas Herrmann

      The house sits atop a hill, half a mile inland off an unnamed road. Around it: fields, ferns, gorse hedgerows.

      October 29, 2018
      Essay, The Clearing
    • supper song, a new poem by Holly Corfield Carr

      a call, a choral, a corral,

      a mud midwife, en caul

      for luck, for luc, a fluke

      of light uphill, an appel,

      October 17, 2018
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Under African Skies by Jini Reddy

      England was the country of my birth, but my parents, who were of Indian descent, were born in South Africa.

      October 9, 2018
      Essay, The Clearing
    • The Blasted Heath: loss and lawlessness in Middlesex by Jon Woolcott

      Amongst a tangle of roads, a little blue sign declares a bike path: “Heathrow Airport: ½ mile.” Who on earth rides to Heathrow? Today, I do.

      October 5, 2018
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Anthropocene TV by Adam Scovell

      A sense of collapse more than change is at the heart of many of these dramas, perhaps suggesting that the melodramatic turn of such environmental catastrophe has made it seem too big, incomprehensible or unsolvable to avert.

      October 1, 2018
      Essay, The Clearing
    • A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: September

      The world was alive, rushing and swooping along with the last three swifts of summer like skipping stones across a green and storm-tossed sea.

      September 25, 2018
      Diary, The Clearing
    • Under a Gooseberry Bush; more new poems by Raine Geoghegan

      Patrin – leaves, to be tied up and left on trees by the roadside to let family know which way the wagons went.

      September 18, 2018
      Podcast, Poetry, The Clearing
    • A Peck of Dirt by Tim Dee

      Paul saw his moment. He pressed the launch button and the net cannoned over the gulls. They lifted as one as soon as it rose above them.

      September 1, 2018
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Coal Measures by Paul Evans

      What dies in the coal forest falls into the water: horsetails, tree ferns, dragonflies and crocodiles rot under the surface of the swamp.

      August 28, 2018
      Essay, The Clearing
    • A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: August

      The hottest, driest June on record had simply extended unbroken into July…

      August 22, 2018
      Diary
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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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    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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