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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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      • Six New Poems by Daril Bentley

        The profession and art of direction
        as by flash of fish in the sea.
        How flawless synchronized swimming
        in the air is done.

        April 15, 2024
        Poetry, The Clearing
      • Lost Gardens: a time traveller’s itinerary by Fiona Davison

        I spend my time diving into accounts of old gardens and, more often than not, these gardens have not survived the passage of time intact.

        April 8, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The Sensory Attunement Coracle by Ryan Powell

        Each spring a coracle king or queen would be chosen through a lottery and  this person given to the river as a symbolic offering.

        March 25, 2024
        Essay, Film, The Clearing
      • Granite is the hardest word by Jennifer Hunt

        Granite stacks surround these islands, shape-shifting with the tide.

        March 18, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Circling Home by Laura Parker

        Encircled by magic. No wonder the land has held me in its thrall.

        March 1, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Casting by Fish Fischer

        Sunlight shone through the tree canopy, bouncing and scattering in a random pattern, casting golden and green patches of light on the river.

        February 26, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Stepping Around Uneven Ground by Karen Jane Cannon

        Knowledge is not necessarily about ‘seeing’ everything, but about knowing somewhere.

        February 19, 2024
        Essay
      • Commute of the Cormorants by Angela Evans

        Notwithstanding the Dysynni valley’s scenic beauty, it is as much the result of human intervention as it is natural forces.

        February 5, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Sailing By (One) by Jeremy Boyce

        When it’s lively like that you need the vision of Nostradamus just to steer through the Hokusais.

        January 18, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • A Manifesto for Chesil by Sarah Acton

        I acknowledge memory in multiple dimensions, where the collective power to make change lies. I will gather, collect, create, unafraid of storms that will pass through.

        January 15, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The Unfinished Estate by Tim Edensor

        With her dogs, and it was rumoured, a particularly vicious goose, she patrolled the estate in an archaic automobile.

        January 4, 2024
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Earth Tongue by Sammy Weaver

        I notice a cluster of russett brown, muscular tongues poking just above the grass, then more and more.

        December 4, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
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