Rose Ferraby and Mark Edmonds – Stonework
_ Stonework grew out of a conversation between archaeologists Rose Ferraby and Mark Edmonds. We asked them to tell us a little about the thinking behind…
Read articleOliver Rackham – What is the future for ash trees?
I dare not predict what will happen to ash. The recent cycle of Elm Disease is too uncomfortable a precedent. Who would have foreseen in 1970…
Read articleAlexandra Harris – In pursuit of Edward Thomas
Spring arrives in Britain from the southwest, and makes a slanting progress across the country at the pace of between one and two miles an hour.…
Read articleYvonne Reddick – Towards Taw and Tor: Sources of Ted Hughes’s Inspiration
Yvonne Reddick is Visiting Research Associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge, concurrently with her Research Fellowship at the University of Central Lancashire. Her poetry is currently displayed…
Read articleRob Magnuson Smith – Kettleman Point
Nick Hogue met his girlfriend on the day the Oregonian reported a grizzly inside the miniature golf course. Apparently the bear had climbed a…
Read articleRachel Magdeburg – Milvus milvus: The reCAPTCHA
We are very pleased to be publishing Rachel Magdeburg’s script in full in The Clearing this week. Milvus milvus: The reCAPTCHA was written during a year’s residency in…
Read articleAmanda Bell – Trout
Amanda Bell Yesterday, months into a rather poor fishing season, my nephew caught a trout, dapping hoppers at Cornacille on Lough Conn. His keen just-turned-nine-year-old eyes…
Read articlePlaces of Water and Weather: an Interview with Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood’s first novel Weathering was published earlier this month and is a story of mothers, daughters and ghosts, set in a cold, isolated Devon river…
Read articleKatherine Price – A Glimpse of the Heath: Parallax Regained
Chainsaws woke me on the Saturday before Christmas. My neighbour was taking down the Lawson’s cypress. It wasn’t a good looking tree – the ‘false cypress’…
Read articleKaren Lloyd – Testing the Sands
Last year The Clearing visited Morecambe Bay in a provoking and memorable essay by Paul Kingsnorth. We are very pleased this week to be returning with a fresh…
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