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The New English Landscape – An Interview with Ken Worpole
To celebrate and commend this landmark publication from Ken Worpole and Jason Orton, we present an interview about the book. The New English Landscape argues for the importance of a place once awarded ‘no…
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Four New Animal Poems
As a species, some of our first forays into art were inspired by the animal kingdom, suggesting that underpinning all our most scrutinised later taxonomies there has always been a creativity and…
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Eleanor Rees – Two Liverpool Poems
This week Eleanor Rees explores the way the poem can move around an urban neighbourhood on the outskirts of Liverpool. Eleanor is the author of Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) and Eliza and…
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The Musical Landscapes of Sam Richards
1. Choose a landscape. It may be one you like, or it may be chosen by chance, or it may simply be a convenient one. You may wish to have a few…
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Three Ways of Looking at a Tree
BERRIES by Jos Smith We were looking for your best side, a single photograph that captured HAWTHORN an image that said CLIFFTOP ENDURANCE or showed on a calm blue…
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Luke Thompson – Stupid Cow
Luke Thompson is from Cornwall and currently writing his PhD at Exeter on the clay country poet Jack Clemo. He also works as a fishmonger in Fowey and has a particular interest…
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Travis Macdonald – from ‘Concrete Jungle’
Travis Macdonald is the author of two full-length collections of poetry (The O Mission Repo and N7ostradamus) as well as several chapbooks. He currently lives in Philadelphia, PA where he works…
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Neil Ansell – The Myth of Return
Neil Ansell was born and raised in Hampshire but has not lived there since he was seventeen. He is the author of Deep Country (Penguin 2011) and Deer Island (Little Toller…
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Deborah Fass – Two New Poems
DROUGHT Where last night I walked alone, past the field to the parking lot – the silent field, at the end of the driest winter on record – …
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Nick Groom – ‘Let’s discuss over country supper soon’ – Rural Realities and Rustic Representations
Nick Groom is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter and author of, most notably, The Union Jack, a cultural history of the British flag. November this year will see…
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Katrina Porteous – Excerpts from ‘The Refuge Box’
Katrina Porteous lives on the Northumberland coast and is best known for her long radio-poems. The following excerpts are taken from one of these, ‘The Refuge Box’, which she made for BBC…
Launching this week!
We are very pleased to announce that The Clearing will be launched this week on 16th August with our first selection of new published work by Katrina Porteous. We will continue to publish new…
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