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Rupert Loydell – Long Distance Conjuring
This week we’re publishing just one poem by Rupert Loydell. A minimalist piece inspired by a minimalist form of music. Lost Trail is the ambient drone noise experiment of duo Zachary Corsa…
September 17, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
An Interview with Katrina Porteous
Katrina Porteous’s recent collection of poems, Two Countries, from Bloodaxe is the fruit of ten years work. The book is a work of some significance to the contemporary cultures of landscape and…
September 4, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Kym Martindale and Caroline Blythe – Re/Tracings
In 1913, Edward Thomas wrote his last prose narrative, an account of a bicycle journey from Guildford to Somerset, In Pursuit of Spring. It describes a landscape on the brink of change, but…
August 20, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Clayscape: Three Poets
In April The Clearing’s Luke Thompson and Isabel Galleymore took a group of Falmouth University students to Wheal Martyn, the China Clay Park and Museum on the edge of a working clay…
August 6, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Bel Parnell-Berry – Traveller Identities in a Modern Landscape
RESEARCH DIARY: 10 APRIL So much for Fenland’s flawless provision plan. My train has been delayed by 2 hours and I’m on the platform at Peterborough station. I can see what…
July 23, 2015
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An Interview with Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison’s new novel At Hawthorn Time is out now, published by Bloomsbury. Her first novel, Clay (Bloomsbury, 2013), won the Portsmouth First Fiction award, was selected for Amazon’s ‘Rising Stars’ programme and chosen by Ali Smith as…
July 9, 2015
Interview, The Clearing
Jean Atkin – Eglwyseg Day
[11.09 am] path up through windclipped gorse, wind in the eye & such yellow splashes through the heather sheep-cropped mounds & sink-holes of the mines all smooth as china cups…
June 25, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
An Interview with Philip Marsden
Philip Marsden is an award-winning author of numerous books, including The Levelling Sea and The Bronski House. His latest, Rising Ground, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2015 and has been recently released as a paperback.…
June 4, 2015
Interview, The Clearing
New Work from Camilla Nelson and Alex Josephy
This week’s poems prompt an adventure into woodlands to explore the transformative and threatening qualities in emergence. Through scales at once microscopic and macroscopic, these new poems by Camilla Nelson and Alex Josephy explore the inhabitants of…
May 21, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Four Ways of Looking at the Coast
This week we’re visiting the coast, that vibrant boundary zone, or ecotone, that has proved as intensely alive imaginatively as it has ecologically. Rachel Carson reminds us that ‘the edge of the…
May 7, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing
Rob Magnuson Smith – Kettleman Point
Nick Hogue met his girlfriend on the day the Oregonian reported a grizzly inside the miniature golf course. Apparently the bear had climbed a covered bridge over the third hole, bathed in…
April 23, 2015
Essay, The Clearing
James Roberts – Three New Poems
The Crossing A barn metal roof folded flung open floor laminated with a century’s dung its surface an ooze on which old Tom has her roped down underhalf dripping with…
April 10, 2015
Poetry, The Clearing