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From now on, we'll be tweeting all The Clearing's essays, podcasts, poetry, films and more, only from our @LittleToller account, and will no longer post them from here. Join us!

The disappearing insect life of England. A sobering diary entry by Anita Roy, just up: littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/d… @GeorgeMonbiot @mjpmccarthy @LittleToller

Happy to be in good company. A new poem @TheClearingMag twitter.com/TheClearingMag…

"The stone is not inert / but processing the darkness, turning it back into / light". New poems by Eleanor Rees, Tim Cresswell and Ralph Pite, just up today: littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/p… @EllyRees, @CresswellTim @egrrgp, @UoBrisEnglish With wonderful illustrations by @desdemonab

Rubbish coming your way - Landfill, a book about gulls, people and ashes and dust @LittleToller in September. This is Cape Town and the gulls are kelp and Hartlaub’s and grey-headed; the waste remains:

'The trees had lost the sharp distinction of winter, and even the crisp pointillism of early spring had given way to a kind of blurring – a soft wash of green.' Another marvellous diary entry from Anita Roy, one of our favourite writers, now up: littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/d…

It's official. You'll be able to get your hands on Handling from @TwoRiversPress in July - tworiverspress.com/wp/handling/. It's my debut 'gathering' and arose out of a residency @TheMERL earlier this year.

Today we bring you the last in our series of extracts from Dark Mountain: Issue 13 - Michael Malay's essay on poetry, extinction and witnessing, accompanied by an image by Bruce Hooke. dark-mountain.net/blog/dark-moun…

I love our Toller man logo. Inspired by the Saxon font in our tiny little St Basil church, famously photographed by the artist John Piper. Designed by @hughdunfordwood

The Guillemot and the Broken Frame landlinesproject.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/the… via @wordpressdotcom

'After her mother dies she thinks it good to dig her plot: / nineteen metres by thirteen'... 'Dustsceawung' -- a new poem by Ben Egerton, up on The Clearing today. littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/p…

@SarahMHarding Sarah, what an astonishing painting. Thanks for sending it over. We'll be sure to share it with Gerard Fosse. If you'd ever like to illustrate for The Clearing, please know there's a home for your art-work here.

@TheClearingMag I've always loved them. My egg tempera painting from a while ago.

'We awaited the flowers through the dark months, and had often imagined them lying closed in rows under the soil, like the cool, damp hats of bishops in a vast, gloomy sacristy.' Gerard Fosse on the tenacity and overlooked beauty of the dandelion: littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/e…

'I reckon that it’s better to feel empathy than not, even if it’s unreciprocated.' On rescuing a deer. Entanglement - a great piece by Among the Summer Snows author @cgnicholson1 twitter.com/share?text=Ent…

'Then the roebuck had had enough. In one convulsive movement it flung itself into the air and broke free.' An extraordinary piece by Christopher Nicholson on care, entanglement and meeting others with compassion: littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/e… (Wonderful illustrations by @miriamcocker)

This has made our month, our year! And for our author @hlasaunders of this ‘smart and compelling biography’ this will be huge. Massive thanks to you @HelenJMacdonald and @Tom_Gatti for commissioning this fine review of My House of Sky for the @NewStatesman. #JABaker #Peregrine

A green wave is running up through the land, moving north at a walking pace. Anita Roy's latest instalment for The Clearing, the fourth of her diary entries of the year, just up: littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/d…

'There was a sort of haze, a shimmer, in the upper branches now, like a whisper made visible, the hint of new growth, the gathering of the green storm.' Another wonderful piece on spring's progress by the talented Anita Roy, writing from Kingcombe, Dorset: littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/d…

Spring thoughts: "I feel ripe for something; it is seed time with me -- I have lain fallow long enough." Thoreau "There is room in me / for a second huge and timeless life." Rilke 'The mockingbird's invention is limitless; he strews newness about as casually as a god' Dillard