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Jos Smith – ‘A Partly Real, Partly Imagined-Country’
Defining the rural is a notoriously difficult thing to do. ‘Not the urban’ might be the closest we can come but such a cumbersome negativity leaves a question mark over edgelands,…
October 3, 2014
Essay, The Clearing
The Virtues of Ash
VIRGIL Fraxinus in sylvis pulcherrima, pinus in hortis, Populus in fluviis, abies in montibus altis (The ash is the most beautiful tree in the woods, the pine in gardens, the poplar by…
September 29, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Amanda Bell – Two New Poems
BURREN VULTURE Captive at the raptor centre, far from the dakhma, you hop among spectators – plucked neck undulating towards your prehistoric head. The crowd gasps at your…
September 18, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Tim Cresswell – Two New Poems
FOSTER COAT Ewes are excellent mothers they need lambs in lambing season. So when a lamb is still-born or dies hung hanging from the birth canal the farmer skins it…
September 5, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Evelyn O’Malley – Adventures in the Forest of Arden
Evelyn O’Malley is researching audiences, Shakespeare, place and environment for her PhD at the University of Exeter. In summer 2014, she followed a tour of Taking Flight Theatre Company’s As You Like…
August 22, 2014
Essay, The Clearing
Yvonne Reddick – Three New Poems
Yvonne Reddick is a Research Fellow in Modern English and World Literatures at the University of Lancashire. She was shortlisted for the Jane Martin Memorial Prize this year and selected to be…
August 7, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
An Interview with Tim Dee
Luke Thompson: You went to the BBC to become a radio producer and have said that you tend to make programmes on poetry and nature together. I wonder whether you could…
July 24, 2014
Essay, The Clearing
Freelance by Adam Thorpe
When Little Toller Books wondered if I would like to write a monograph on any aspect of our islands’ landscape, Silbury Hill in Wiltshire immediately reared into view. The largest prehistoric mound…
July 11, 2014
Essay, The Clearing
Philip Lancaster – Two New Poems
RELIC OF HOPE Pale sky-bound hand of earth thrust up from hollowed ground’s soul; once dark, full-fleshed, exhaling bright speech through thick wild word-wood of iron gall; a now…
July 11, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Robert Crawford – Two New Poems
LONGING Over the standing stones of Machrie Moor Starlight discharges midges across Arran. The sea is a heron’s breast; desire Moist lips in front of banked thunderclouds. Daylight, an…
June 26, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Camilla Nelson – Three New Poems
Camilla Nelson is a poet, artist and researcher, currently based in Somerset. She successfully completed a PhD in ‘Reading…
June 13, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
David Crouch – An Essay in Place
David Crouch is a dad and husband; an exhibiting artist, gardener and a Professor of Cultural Geography, Humanities Department, Arts and Design, University of Derby. His first book, with Colin Ward,…
May 30, 2014
Essay, The Clearing