Luke Thompson – Stupid Cow
Luke Thompson is from Cornwall and currently writing his PhD at Exeter on the clay country poet Jack Clemo. He also works as a fishmonger in…
Travis Macdonald – from ‘Concrete Jungle’
Travis Macdonald is the author of two full-length collections of poetry (The O Mission Repo and N7ostradamus) as well as several chapbooks. He currently lives…
Neil Ansell – The Myth of Return
Neil Ansell was born and raised in Hampshire but has not lived there since he was seventeen. He is the author of Deep Country (Penguin…
Deborah Fass – Two New Poems
DROUGHT Where last night I walked alone, past the field to the parking lot – the silent field, at the end of the…
Nick Groom – ‘Let’s discuss over country supper soon’ – Rural Realities and Rustic Representations
Nick Groom is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter and author of, most notably, The Union Jack, a cultural history of the British…
Katrina Porteous – Excerpts from ‘The Refuge Box’
Katrina Porteous lives on the Northumberland coast and is best known for her long radio-poems. The following excerpts are taken from one of these, ‘The Refuge…
Launching this week!
We are very pleased to announce that The Clearing will be launched this week on 16th August with our first selection of new published work by Katrina Porteous.…