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Rachel Magdeburg – Milvus milvus: The reCAPTCHA
We are very pleased to be publishing Rachel Magdeburg’s script in full in The Clearing this week. Milvus milvus: The reCAPTCHA was written during a year’s residency in Leeds funded by East Street Arts…
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An Interview with John Elder
John Elder fulfills many roles in the field of Nature Writing: as well as an author of such titles as Reading the Mountains of Home, a nonfiction journey grounded in the Vermont landscape,…
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Amanda Bell – Trout
Amanda Bell Yesterday, months into a rather poor fishing season, my nephew caught a trout, dapping hoppers at Cornacille on Lough Conn. His keen just-turned-nine-year-old eyes caught the fish’s mouth as it…
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Oliver Rackham’s Boots
Late in the summer of 2013 I took an unusual package to the post office in the village where I live. Inside the box, stuffed with newspaper and packing tape, were Oliver…
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Taey Iohe – You, Me, Undone, London
‘You, Me, Undone, London’ is a new work addressed to the city itself by artist and author Taey Iohe. Part letter, part photo essay, it is an ‘essay’ in the original sense…
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Places of Water and Weather: an Interview with Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood’s first novel Weathering was published earlier this month and is a story of mothers, daughters and ghosts, set in a cold, isolated Devon river valley. Her previous book, Diving Belles,…
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Katherine Price – A Glimpse of the Heath: Parallax Regained
Chainsaws woke me on the Saturday before Christmas. My neighbour was taking down the Lawson’s cypress. It wasn’t a good looking tree – the ‘false cypress’ of seventies suburbia, unaccountably prized for…
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Midwinter Poems of Faith
We are delighted to be publishing three poets this Midwinter whose works explore questions of faith. Somerset, Devon and Cornwall are represented here with exciting new writing from Toby Martinez de las…
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Karen Lloyd – Testing the Sands
Last year The Clearing visited Morecambe Bay in a provoking and memorable essay by Paul Kingsnorth. We are very pleased this week to be returning with a fresh pair of eyes. Karen Lloyd has…
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New Poems from Isabel Galleymore and Ben Smith
This week we are celebrating the launch of new chapbooks from two of The Clearing’s editorial team: Dazzle Ship by Isabel Galleymore and Sky Burials by Ben Smith, both of which are published…
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Eddie Procter – The Rhiws of the Black Mountains: Liminal Ways, Old Beyond Memory
“The twins looked on the path to the Eagle Stone as their own private property. ‘It’s Our Path!’ they’d shout if they happened to meet a party of hikers.” – On…
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Dan Eltringham – Forced Fingers
We are very pleased this week to be publishing an extract from the sequence Forced Fingers by Dan Eltringham. Drawing on the language of folk wisdom, global agribusiness, literary pastoral and eighteenth-century debates around enclosure, Forced…
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