Alison Brackenbury: Three New Poems
USELESS Not a Victorian orchard tree which ladders wobbled round, no rose-red pippin, whose veined flesh old men in Kent once found, not Evesham’s young…
Read articleBel Parnell-Berry – Traveller Identities in a Modern Landscape
RESEARCH DIARY: 10 APRIL So much for Fenland’s flawless provision plan. My train has been delayed by 2 hours and I’m on the platform at…
Read articleJean Atkin – Eglwyseg Day
[11.09 am] path up through windclipped gorse, wind in the eye & such yellow splashes through the heather sheep-cropped mounds & sink-holes of the…
Read articleAn Interview with Philip Marsden
Philip Marsden is an award-winning author of numerous books, including The Levelling Sea and The Bronski House. His latest, Rising Ground, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2015 and has…
Read articleTaey Iohe – You, Me, Undone, London
‘You, Me, Undone, London’ is a new work addressed to the city itself by artist and author Taey Iohe. Part letter, part photo essay, it is…
Read articleMidwinter Poems of Faith
We are delighted to be publishing three poets this Midwinter whose works explore questions of faith. Somerset, Devon and Cornwall are represented here with exciting new…
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…
Read articleEvelyn O’Malley – Adventures in the Forest of Arden
Evelyn O’Malley is researching audiences, Shakespeare, place and environment for her PhD at the University of Exeter. In summer 2014, she followed a tour of Taking…
Read articleAn Interview with Tim Dee
Luke Thompson: You went to the BBC to become a radio producer and have said that you tend to make programmes on poetry and nature…
Read articleDavid 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.…
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