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A poem by Stephen Watts
Stephen Watts has published numerous collections, including ‘Ancient Sunlight’ (2014) and Republic of Dogs / Republic of Birds (2016).
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An Interview with Stephen Watts
Stephen Watts is a poet and translator based in East London. He has published numerous collections of poetry, including Mountain Language: Lingua di Montagne (translated by Cristina Viti, 2009) and Ancient Sunlight (2014), and the prose work Republic…
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New poems from David Troupes, Katherine Robinson and Robert Okaji
‘Some seeds are buried, others scattered.’ Poems by three American poets on landscapes close to their heart. Indian Brook by David Troupes A looking glass—a black gutter hurrying the…
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‘Bearing Witness’: Reflections on the Launch of the UK’s Favourite Nature Books Poll by Pippa Marland
Some of the most popular and respected nature writers in the UK have been helping us to launch the Land Lines public poll to find the UK’s favourite books about nature: Mark…
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‘Land Lines: Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2014’
Professor Graham Huggan and members of the Land Lines research team introduce the project. Recent years have seen a boom in nature writing, with the publication of hugely popular books by authors…
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An Owl for Winter by Richard Mabey
The view from my study during these polar days [2010] has been like an illustration from a Victorian book of moral parables. The magnificence of the frost suggests the beauty inherent in…
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Fiona Sampson on Limestone
The first in a series of podcasts planned for 2018. The poet and biographer Fiona Sampson talks about the magic of limestone countries.
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What I Saw by Steven Williams
When she was here everything seemed full of charm and inner life. Now that I am alone the world is again a chaos of meaningless objects, and signs that point nowhere. A…
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Harvest Films
The Harvest Short Film Competition is a biannual event curated by Lower Hewood Farm and the arts and environmental charity Common Ground. An open call to all filmmakers from around the world, living…
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Natural connections: memory and nature by Stephen Moss
It’s only a photograph, but it’s one of my most treasured possessions. It shows a toddler – me, when I was maybe eighteen months old dressed in what can only be described as…
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New Poems from Sumana Roy
I Want To Be a Tree I want to be a tree. I know that this desire lives outside the curriculum. Irrationality is man’s favourite home – One man’s love…
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Seasonal Change – New Poems from Jos Smith, Isabel Galleymore, Ben Smith and Luke Thompson
This week we mark a change in the editorial panel of The Clearing. For the last four years, since its beginnings in August 2013 with Katrina Porteous’ ‘The Refuge Box’, we have…
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