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Sarianne Durie – Landscapes

    THE ICE BOOK OF CHINA   after Xu Bing   Bees rise from fragrant grasses   Patterns repeat on terraced ground lines repeat   lines  …

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Paul Kingsnorth – The Bay

This week Paul Kingsnorth offers us a very modern vision of Morecambe Bay. Paul is a writer who lives in Ulverston, Cumbria. Among other books, he…

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Matthew Griffiths and Sarah Taylor Silverwood

  THE NEW BUILDING   The new building first made itself noticed that evening as some of the others shuffled aside like commuters, not quite making…

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Sophy Rickett – Objects in the Field

  How do we look at the world before us? What is the quality of attention we bring to our environment, and what do we do…

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David Hart – New Poems

  The Clearing is very pleased to present four new poems by David Hart. David grew up in rural Wales but has spent most of his…

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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…

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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…

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Russell Badrick – Fleeting Places

Russell Badrick is a new writer who is originally from Suffolk. He attended the University of Durham and practises now as a lawyer in London. Here…

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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…

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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…

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