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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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      • On Rain and Washing by Rebecca Smith

        I was interested in the men who built this incredible feat of engineering, and the families they brought with them.

        June 1, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • A Symphony of Ancient Trees by Laura Parker

        The trees that remained had recently witnessed revelries wild enough to rival any modern music festival.

        May 22, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • The Yellow Bittern by David Higgins

        Bitterns are easier to hear than to see. What tends to be heard, though, is not their ‘cry / In the wild sky’, but the male’s remarkable booming call emerging from reedbeds in the breeding season.

        April 24, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • In High Places by Julia Brigdale

        a jet fighter appeared out of the north-west sky and slashed through the air directly overhead.

        February 20, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Children of the Forest by Juliette de Baïracli Levy

        Among our happiest forest events every year were the summer and autumn fruit gatherings.

        February 3, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Glass and Stone by Chris Baker

        The stone wall was broken. The sides were bulging outwards, elbowed aside by tree roots snaking through the wall’s interior.

        January 30, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Canticle for the Creatures by Ian Tattum

        the symbols…have a life of their own; they shape shift with time and experience. 

        January 3, 2023
        Essay, The Clearing
      • A walk along Chesil by Sarah Acton

        A new podcast in which the writer Sarah Acton takes a walk along Chesil beach.

        December 13, 2022
        Podcast, The Clearing
      • Waiting for the bird apocalypse by Jasmine Donahaye

        The first dead guillemot was on its back, plump and shining, its white breast and belly glossy and wet.

        November 14, 2022
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Protected: White Horses, Kiwi, Trench by Susannah Walker

        There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

        November 7, 2022
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Ends the Land Suddenly by Paul Gamble

        This was our unfenced existence, among crumbling towers and tunnels; we scampered up, clambered around, and investigated all manner of half-ruins

        October 3, 2022
        Essay, The Clearing
      • Luskentyre by Ian Grosz

        I can hear the distant sound of the ocean, smell the ozone in the air and feel the fine mist of salt-spray against my skin.

        August 31, 2022
        Essay, The Clearing
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