The Clearing - a journal of nature, landscape and place.

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Rain Sideways by Paul Evans
“The storm is with us. Standing in the dunes in the indifferent lash of rain sideways feels like being part of a community”
July 25, 2016
Essay, The Clearing
I Can’t See by Kathleen Jamie
“My relationship with the natural world has been knocked all to hell.”
July 24, 2016
Essay, The Clearing
“Great God, where is the ship?” by Philip Hoare
Will birds and animals die as a direct result of leaving the EU?
July 22, 2016
Essay, The Clearing
Uprooted by Robert Macfarlane & Adrian Cooper
Amid the political clamour since the Referendum, no one in power has yet spoken up for nature in the UK.
July 16, 2016
Essay, The Clearing
Looking for Dream Island: Amy Liptrot
In the footsteps of R.M. Lockley: “I sit on the highest point of the island and see the sea all around.”
July 4, 2016
Essay, The Clearing
The Wet Desert by Max & Ben Smith
A short film exploring the watery landscape of Dartmoor and relics of its past.
June 12, 2016
Film, The Clearing
Stonework by Rose Ferraby and Mark Edmonds
Exploreing the human labour that an abiding mark upon the Cumbrian Fells.
June 11, 2016
Poetry, The Clearing
Poems from Heath by Penelope Shuttle and John Greening
Traversing ideas of landscape and time, treading new paths across Hounslow Heath.
June 11, 2016
Poetry, The Clearing
Extracts from Undercurrents by Amanda Bell
An extract from Amanda Bell’s Undercurrents: a psychogeography of Irish rivers in haiku and haibun.
May 23, 2016
Poetry, The Clearing
James Roberts – Three New Poems
James Roberts lives in the Black Mountains. He co-edits Zoomorphic magazine. Recent poetry has been published by Agenda and Cinnamon Press. A novella “The Man in the Mountain.” was published in 2015.
May 23, 2016
Poetry, The Clearing
Watery Landscapes
Simon Turner was born in Birmingham in 1980, and currently lives in Warwickshire. He has published two full collections, most recently Difficult Second Album (Nine Arches Press, 2010); a pamphlet, Works on Paper, was published by Seren in 2015.
April 22, 2016
Poetry, The Clearing
Luke Thompson and Mairead Dunne: from ‘the clearing’
Four poems from ‘the clearing’ a forthcoming pamphlet written by Luke Thompson, illustrated by Mairead Dunne.
April 7, 2016
Poetry, The Clearing