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          An online journal published by Little Toller Books that offers writers and artists a dedicated space in which to explore and celebrate the landscapes we live in. Our contributors are encouraged to go forth and find distinctive visions that startle us, rural or urban, modern or prehistoric, industrial, post-industrial, fantastical, natural, political, however they come. But each must be meaningful, surprising, felt.
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      • Gulls Dreaming by Ann Lingard

        She spreads her wings, tilting them to capture the full power of the lift.

        September 9, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Wild Twin by Jeff Young, an extract

        It’s seven o’clock on a Monday morning in March, sometime in the 1970s, and I’m not going to work.

        August 28, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Hardy’s Knuckles by Estelle Phillips

        Made from silica rich seawater squeezed out of plankton, flint formed in gaps between compacted chalk.

        August 27, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The Machinery of a Hare by Tim Hannigan

        I’ve seen plenty of hares since, but the sense of the uncanny at each encounter has never entirely faded.

        August 19, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • A Year of Cows by S. V. Morgan (Part Two)

        When they are a little older, they respond in kind and groom their mothers, sometimes other cows too.

        August 12, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Dear Kadu by Pam Zinneman-Hope

        At the beach we hunt

        among Jurassic clays and shales

        scanning and sifting the Charmouth shingle,

        searching the shoreline.

        July 22, 2024
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Return to the Banyan Tree by Chandra Ganguly

        Some friends of mine here in the West seem to make do. They make South Indian filter coffee at home, they grind rice and dal and make dosas and idlis.

        July 8, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Summer Bells and Rain by Virginia Astley

        The trees are moving in a strange way, like pantomime trees with actors in them who, at any minute, might leave and head across to somewhere else.

        June 17, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Rebecca and the many Ghosts of Menabilly by Gemma Elise

        With my parents and my grandparents, we played French cricket and pétanque and frisbee.

        May 28, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Seven Romanesque Churches by Alex Woodcock

        Alex Woodcock, author of King of Dust, takes us on a tour of seven unmissable Romanesque Churches.

        May 28, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • A Chiffchaff Sings by Martin Maudsley

        And I thought to myself:

        He has seen nearly a century of seasons –

        Fresh flowers, leathery leaves, ripe fruit.

        May 13, 2024
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • A Year of Cows by S. V. Morgan (Part One)

        I move among them, barely disturbing them now. I have become a kind of familiar.

        April 23, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
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