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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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      • The Weight of a Dog by Pippa Marland

        I’m here to collect the ashes of my dog Nina.

        February 25, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Act of Birdsong by Sheena Graham-George

        WATCH: Act of Birdsong, a beautiful short film by Sheena Graham-George.

        February 18, 2025
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      • Raptors of the Concrete Cloverleaf by Christopher Brown

        The idea of rewilding is sometimes coupled with fantasies of depopulation, but it needn’t be that way.

        February 10, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Catchment by Julia Brigdale

        chiffchaffs mark the time, blackcaps pour their song.

        January 31, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Aqua Vitae by Kirsteen McNish

        A trickle of water dances over my feet, releasing a barely audible sound.

        January 13, 2025
        Essay, The Clearing
      • 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                                                                       
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        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
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