From ‘swims’ by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
swims is a long poem by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett documenting a series of wild swims across the UK. The poem starts and ends in Devon, her home county,…
Five New Poems from Annabel Banks
These poems are part of Annabel Bank’s practice-based PhD, ‘Poetry and the Archive’, which brings together material from the eighteenth-century letters of the Boulton and…
An Interview with Horatio Clare
Horatio Clare is a writer and broadcaster whose books include the Somerset Maugham Award-winning memoir Running for the Hills, the travel and nature book A…
Four New Poems from Polly Atkin
SOLSTITIAL We are drawn by a map of sweet ash winding through the twilit streets. There should be three fires: one of clean bones,…
Karl O’Hanlon – Purdysburn House
The country house poem is sub-genre of topographical poetry popular in the seventeenth century. Famous examples exist by Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, and Andrew Marvell. In…
‘Silken demon’: Two Animal Poems
This week in The Clearing two poems by Holly Corfield-Carr and Polly Atkin journey into the night to find species both familiar and exotic. BRAKE LIGHTS…
Peter Larkin – Excerpt from ‘Eyes on Open Leaves’
“Eyes on Open Leaves” was suggested to me by a reference to a journal collection by the poet Lorand Gaspard called Feuilles d’Observation. It made me…
Yvonne 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…
Rupert Loydell – Long Distance Conjuring
This week we’re publishing just one poem by Rupert Loydell. A minimalist piece inspired by a minimalist form of music. Lost Trail is the ambient drone…
An Interview with Katrina Porteous
Katrina Porteous’s recent collection of poems, Two Countries, from Bloodaxe is the fruit of ten years work. The book is a work of some significance to…