The Wet Desert – A Film by Max Smith and Ben Smith
This week we present a short film exploring the watery landscape of Dartmoor, scripted and narrated by Clearing editor Ben Smith, filmed by his brother Max…
Read articleJames Roberts – Three New Poems
The Longhouse Backlit by a flickering hearth each room is a stage applauding its audience. Silence twines speech into smoke-threads the talk of wool…
Read articleLuke Thompson and Mairead Dunne: from ‘the clearing’
These four poems are from the clearing a forthcoming pamphlet written by LukeThompson, illustrated by Mairead Dunne and published by Atlantic Press. The pamphlet…
Read article‘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…
Read articlePeter 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…
Read articleAn 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…
Read articleNew Poems from Isabel Galleymore and Ben Smith
This week we are celebrating the launch of new chapbooks from two of The Clearing’s editorial team: Dazzle Ship by Isabel Galleymore and Sky Burials by Ben…
Read articleThree Ways of Looking at a Tree
BERRIES by Jos Smith We were looking for your best side, a single photograph that captured HAWTHORN an image that said CLIFFTOP ENDURANCE…
Read articleDeborah 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…
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