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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 Welcome from the White Cottage by Liz Williams

      ‘Wales was an old crush I couldn’t shake. The solitude of its remote coastlines; an oldness that boasted permanence’

      December 17, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • The painter’s chair / Attending by Fiona Sampson

      like a new
      thought or like
      the curlew’s
      call that                                                                       
      doublejoints
      across the Sound

      December 3, 2024
      Poetry, The Clearing
    • Dent by Myna Trustram

      lichen spatters hawthorn branches like paint on a studio floor.

      November 22, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Mama, en route by Coco Lone Neal

      When I was eleven years old, for four days my father and I walked and camped, naming the places we passed.

      November 18, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Under Scythe-like Wings by Ian Grosz

      …in its ageless song we felt Orkney’s long-absent presences.

      October 25, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Brute Force with Art by Laura Parker

      Working away quietly, the voles and mice would play about him, the curlews, peewits and crows ‘take him for granted.’

      October 18, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • The Bungalow by Ken Worpole

      Grandma Elvin was always in demand as a fortune-teller, as well as being accomplished in other psychic gifts.

      September 23, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Gulls Dreaming by Ann Lingard

      She spreads her wings, tilting them to capture the full power of the lift.

      September 9, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Wild Twin by Jeff Young, an extract

      It’s seven o’clock on a Monday morning in March, sometime in the 1970s, and I’m not going to work.

      August 28, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • Hardy’s Knuckles by Estelle Phillips

      Made from silica rich seawater squeezed out of plankton, flint formed in gaps between compacted chalk.

      August 27, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • The Machinery of a Hare by Tim Hannigan

      I’ve seen plenty of hares since, but the sense of the uncanny at each encounter has never entirely faded.

      August 19, 2024
      Essay, The Clearing
    • A Year of Cows by S. V. Morgan (Part Two)

      When they are a little older, they respond in kind and groom their mothers, sometimes other cows too.

      August 12, 2024
      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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    • Reading (2)
    • Short Story (1)

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      we stride across a snow-rosy crust our steps
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    Whats in the name

    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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