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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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    • 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
      Diary
    • 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
      Diary
    • 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
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • 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
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • The fight for beauty by Fiona Reynolds

      “It is very easy to feel gloomy about the Brexit vote. But we are not powerless.”

      July 28, 2016
      Essay, The Clearing
    • from SLAVA, ISLAND, by Sarah Cave

        Granite shelves yellow-faced the heron solitude beaks his habit wings protect him from callous wind flight the lighthouse with its vision seeks him           Skin clad curragh…

      July 28, 2016
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • The Earth will speak in the long run by Marcus Sedgwick

      “Since the land cannot speak for itself, who will speak on its behalf?”

      July 28, 2016
      Essay, The Clearing
    • If Britain becomes Little by Germaine Greer

      Will uneconomic farming on marginal lands be a win for wilderness?

      July 27, 2016
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Hobblers Hole by Adam Thorpe

      “Our islands are splinters off a massive core to which we also belong”

      July 26, 2016
      Essay, 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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    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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