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    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 Smith and produced…

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    Rose Ferraby and Mark Edmonds – Stonework

    _ Stonework grew out of a conversation between archaeologists Rose Ferraby and Mark Edmonds. We asked them to tell us a little about the thinking behind…

    June 16, 2016 0 Comments Read article
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    Poems from Heath by Penelope Shuttle and John Greening

      These poems by Penelope Shuttle and John Greening respond to Hounslow Heath. From seventeenth-century paper mills and Chamberlain’s more recent ‘Munich Agreement’, to the Ordnance…

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    The Wet Desert – A Film by Max Smith and Ben Smith
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    Sam Richards The Musical Landscapes of Sam Richards
    AshChalk4-page-001 Three Ways of Looking at a Tree
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    Extracts from Undercurrents – Amanda Bell

    This week we’re pleased to publish an extract from Amanda Bell’s Undercurrents: a psychogeography of Irish rivers in haiku and haibun.     WHAT LIES BENEATH Since…

    May 20, 2016 0 Comments Read article
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    James 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…

    May 6, 2016 0 Comments Read article
    Winslow Homer, Moonlight (1874)

    Watery Landscapes

      APRIL: ALDEBURGH: WOODCUTS by Simon Turner   i ———– (the eye un- oooooo hitched in the fog   at the marsh’s edge where the tide’s…

    April 22, 2016 0 Comments Read article
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    Luke 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…

    April 7, 2016 0 Comments Read article
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    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…

    March 25, 2016 0 Comments Read article
    Ash tree, Fraxinus excelsior, in hedgerow, Stour Valley, Dorset.

    Oliver Rackham – What is the future for ash trees?

    I dare not predict what will happen to ash. The recent cycle of Elm Disease is too uncomfortable a precedent. Who would have foreseen in 1970…

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    Alexandra Harris – In pursuit of Edward Thomas

    Spring arrives in Britain from the southwest, and makes a slanting progress across the country at the pace of between one and two miles an hour.…

    March 23, 2016 0 Comments Read article
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    Jack Thacker – Three Poems

    Jack Thacker grew up on a farm in Herefordshire. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, researching contemporary British and…

    March 11, 2016 0 Comments Read article

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