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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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    • New Poems from Zeina Hashem Beck

      Photo: ‘Tripoli Clock Tower’ by Natheer Halawani www.natheerhalawani.com   ROOM 607   By then the doctors had removed the tubes that came out of your lung; by then your fever had dropped and…

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      The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…

      October 26, 2016
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    • South West Poetry Tour #5 – Annabel Banks & Matti Spence

      The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…

      October 24, 2016
      Diary
    • South West Poetry Tour #4 – J.R. Carpenter & Camilla Nelson

      The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…

      October 20, 2016
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    • South West Poetry Tour #3 – SJ Fowler & John Hall

      The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…

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    • South West Poetry Tour #2 – Simon Persighetti & Lucy Linford

      The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…

      October 16, 2016
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    • South West Poetry Tour #1 – David Devanny and John Canfield

      The South West Poetry Tour was a 5 day collaborative initiative curated by Camilla Nelson and Steven Fowler in August 2016. The tour consisted of collaborative poetic performances at The Barbara Hepworth Museum…

      October 13, 2016
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    • New Poems from Anna Cathenka

      composition by [thawing] field this poem has a rime on it jutting ice crystals covering space like a white mould a lichen sonnet   the birds in this poem describe patterns      …

      September 29, 2016
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    • Lie of the Land

      A series of responses to the Referendum exploring what leaving the EU could mean for conservation, wildlife and our relationship with the land. Please add your voice by posting comments below or submitting a longer contribution – either…

      September 13, 2016
      The Clearing
    • Two Marine Poems by Isabel Galleymore

      The Evening Shift   1. matronly strawberry sea anemone and this one some 50’s pin-up   2. waiter coming in on the evening shift the snails in their ancient restaurant booths  …

      September 9, 2016
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • ‘The Tin Lodes’ – A New Poetry Sequence by Andy Brown

      The following sequence of sonnets is part of a collaborative book project between myself and the poet Marc Woodward. We live on opposite sides of the Teign river estuary, with Dartmoor to…

      August 26, 2016
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • New Poems from Penelope Shuttle

        St Clether August   The Well   Sheep-warm day, pilgrim rain rolling up the valley,   half-listening to the quiet river   skimming the long mist-smitten fold of the Inny Vale,…

      August 12, 2016
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