Posts by theclearing

Camilla Nelson – Three New Poems

                          Camilla Nelson is a poet, artist and researcher, currently based in Somerset. She…

Read article

David Crouch – An Essay in Place

  David Crouch is a dad and husband; an exhibiting artist, gardener and a Professor of Cultural Geography, Humanities Department, Arts and Design, University of Derby.…

Read article

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…

Read article

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…

Read article

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.…

Read article

“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…

Read article

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…

Read article

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…

Read article

‘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…

Read article

Hugh Dunkerley – Two Poems

                Hugh Dunkerley was born in Surrey, but grew up in Edinburgh and Bath.  He now lives in Brighton with…

Read article