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Mark Goodwin – ‘Serpent & Sea-Window’
SERPENT & SEA-WINDOW I Just about to step into a Tintagel Church’s graveyard: I’m first met by a long-stemmed stone-bloom of war memorial Celtic cross, its cross-arms…
May 16, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Paul Evans – Herbaceous
Celebrating the turning of the seasons this week we’re ‘bringing the may’ with a selection from Paul Evans’ extremely enjoyable new book of ‘audacious botany’ featuring illustrations by Kurt Jackson. Out this…
May 1, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Jo Bell – Two New Poems
PASSING TIME Under the flyover, the 21 deep locks, a flight of graves. And then the road, the yellow houses, neither-nor-lands, scrub and stream. The new estates with spider…
April 25, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
“All is Lithogenesis” – Three Stony Poems
“All is lithogenesis” wrote Hugh MacDiarmid in ‘On a Raised Beach’ suggesting that all creation is founded on stone and its geological processes of formation and change. But he also suggests…
April 11, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Ben Short – An Uncomplicated Life
My life used to be complicated; it is no longer so. I left London over half a decade ago, having lived and worked in its hothouse environment for nearly fifteen years. It…
April 4, 2014
Essay, The Clearing
Rupert Loydell – Three New Poems
Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including…
March 28, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Jay Griffiths on writing fiction
Tragic or comic, feathered or jewelled, Harlequin or Pierrot, all fiction is a masquerade. We writers adopt disguises: we flirt, feign and play, and the story is the mask we wear. Behind…
March 23, 2014
Essay, The Clearing
‘Soft Estate’ – An Interview with Edward Chell
‘Soft Estate’ is a term used by the Highways Agency to describe those natural habitats that have evolved alongside motorways in this country. It is also the title of a fascinating new…
March 21, 2014
Essay, The Clearing
Hugh Dunkerley – Two Poems
Hugh Dunkerley was born in Surrey, but grew up in Edinburgh and Bath. He now lives in Brighton with his wife and young son. He…
March 13, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Jack Clemo – Barney’s Tricks
‘Barney’s Tricks’ was written in October 1937, when the novelist, poet and autobiographer Jack Clemo (1916-1994) was 21 years old, and was published in Saundry’s Almanack at the beginning of 1939.…
March 7, 2014
Essay, The Clearing
George Ttoouli – Three New Poems
George Ttoouli’s first collection of poetry is ‘Static Exile‘ (Penned in the Margins, 2009). His second, ‘from Animal Illicit’ is due sometime in the future. With Simon Turner,…
February 28, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing
Amy Cutler – from ‘Glitch’
We are very pleased to be publishing an extract from Amy Cutler’s new sequence of poems Glitch. This is a work which draws on botanical misnomers and the cultural strictures of environmental language – in…
February 21, 2014
Poetry, The Clearing