Kym Martindale and Caroline Blythe – Re/Tracings
In 1913, Edward Thomas wrote his last prose narrative, an account of a bicycle journey from Guildford to Somerset, In Pursuit of Spring. It describes a landscape…
Clayscape: Three Poets
In April The Clearing’s Luke Thompson and Isabel Galleymore took a group of Falmouth University students to Wheal Martyn, the China Clay Park and Museum on…
Bel 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…
An Interview with Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison’s new novel At Hawthorn Time is out now, published by Bloomsbury. Her first novel, Clay (Bloomsbury, 2013), won the Portsmouth First Fiction award, was selected for Amazon’s ‘Rising…
Jean 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…
An 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…
New Work from Camilla Nelson and Alex Josephy
This week’s poems prompt an adventure into woodlands to explore the transformative and threatening qualities in emergence. Through scales at once microscopic and macroscopic, these new poems by Camilla Nelson…
Four Ways of Looking at the Coast
This week we’re visiting the coast, that vibrant boundary zone, or ecotone, that has proved as intensely alive imaginatively as it has ecologically. Rachel Carson reminds…
Rob 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…
James Roberts – Three New Poems
The Crossing A barn metal roof folded flung open floor laminated with a century’s dung its surface an ooze on which old Tom has…