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2025/05/15

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of David Attenborough and Colin Butfield’s Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness to give away, courtesy of John Murray Press. We asked: Which Caught by the River contributor, Cabaret Voltaire founding member and world-renowned sound recordist is known for his work with […]

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Beginnings

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2025/05/15

In extract from Julian Hoffman‘s latest book ‘Lifelines’, out today, pelicans lend a palpable antiquity to the landscape of northern Greece. On a small hill beside the lake, the March sun was warm on my skin. It was the vernal equinox and almost a week into the closure of the country. Shops, restaurants and cafés […]

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Sounding Line

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2025/05/14

Mella Shaw’s Sounding Line — an immersive ceramic installation highlighting the impact of marine sonar on mass beaching of whales and other cetaceans — opens later this month at The McManus, Dundee. Still from Mella Shaw’s ‘Sounding Line’ film — whale bone clay form being dragged into sea in South Uist. Image: Rowan Aitchison Mella […]

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Lichen, Moss & Bone: Where the Sun Meets the Sea

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2025/05/11

Protective talismans seek out Kirsteen McNish, in her garden and on the beach. At the end of the so-called cruellest month, the birdsong seems to have picked up into new levels of vibrancy: clearer, sharper and cooler in tone than I have noticed before. The birds are extremely skittish this Spring, more urgent, like some […]

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Jeb’s Jukebox

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2025/05/10

Brenton Wood teaches Jeb Loy Nichols about the flux of life. Brenton Wood Catch You On The Rebound Double Shot Records 1967 When I first came to London, nearly 40 years ago, I lived for a while in Kilburn where all the old men smoked their spliffs and drank their liquor and told confusing stories […]

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Circuitous Routes, Part 11

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2025/05/09

Back to the source: Mark Hooper’s latest walk takes him to his birthplace. ‘I’m 49. Divorced…’ ‘And are you falling apart?’ [laughter] ‘…Yes.’ Not my words, readers – but rather the words of an anonymous caller to an unknown radio call-in show, re-enacted and re-recorded for Paddy McAloon’s sublime 2003 album, I Trawl The Megahertz. It […]

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Competition Results

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2025/05/08

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week’s prize was another lovely book from our office shelves: Angie Lewin and Christopher Stocks’ The Book of Wild Flowers: Reflections on Favourite Plants, published last year by Thames & Hudson. We asked: What is the name of Angie Lewin and Christopher Stocks’ previous book […]

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Joining the dots..

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2025/05/08

An extract of images from David Morgan-Davies’ photo-book on the post-industrial landscapes of South Wales. David writes: Joining the dots.. started in 2021 with a walk around the post-industrial landscape of Blaenafon in South Wales. I took with me my 40-year-old SLR camera and some expired film. The results were so inspiring I did six […]

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Now Playing

Caught by the River ·

2025/05/08

‘Grass Grows pt. 1’ by The Worm. Pantilde by The Worm Taken from the upcoming album Pantilde, out on PRAH Recordings in July. The Worm is an avant folk project, rooted in the stories of a fictional, time-travelling character, created and acted out by Amy Lawrence (they / them), a performance artist from Cornwall. With […]

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Real Magic Weekend III

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2025/05/07

Thanks to everyone who joined us for a lovely Bank Holiday Saturday in Sussex last weekend. We’re pleased to share that our next in-person get-together is just around the corner, at our good friends Real Magic Books’ third annual Real Magic Weekend — taking place in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, from 30th May – 1st June. For […]

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Caught by the Reaper: Johnny Green/John Broad

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2025/05/04

Ian Preece pays tribute to John Broad, a.k.a. Johnny Green — author, Rouleur columnist, and road manager for The Clash, Joe Ely and John Cooper Clarke — who died in March aged 75. In the film Rude Boy, and in other online footage of The Clash as they pile onstage at Rock Against Racism in […]

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The Caught by the River Book of the Month: May

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2025/05/03

Book of the Month is Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Is a River Alive?’, published by Hamish Hamilton earlier this week. Michael Malay reviews, finding a book that thinks with rivers as much as it thinks about them. High up in the Intag Valley, in a cloud-forest in northern Ecuador, two rivers run off a cliff. One cascade […]

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South London Commons zines: A South London Landscape...

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2025/05/02

Starting at Bostall Heath in the south-east and finishing at Putney Heath in the south-west, a chain of commons runs in a wide arc across the whole of South London. We’re chuffed to be newly stocking volumes 1 & 2 of a beautiful series of zines mixing history, ecology, psychogeography, architecture, poetry and memoir to […]

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Competition Results

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2025/05/01

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a minorly shelf-worn copy of Under the Changing Skies: The Best of the Guardian’s Country Diary, 2018-2024 to give away from our office stash. We asked: Which Guardian Country Diarist and Caught by the River contributor is also the author of the excellent On […]

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Unseen – In Search of the Sublime and Spirit of Place

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2025/05/01

Rachel Poulton marks the seasonal festivals with pilgrimages to some of Sussex’s ancient sites — mapping each journey through words and photographs. ‘Understand: My walks are pilgrimages’ wrote the German wanderer, philosopher and writer Hans Jürgen von der Wense — mine are too. Propelled by a mix of curiosity and creativity, I’ve been paying homage […]

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Times and Happenings: Caught by the River Day Out

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2025/04/30

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Kingston on Saturday, thanks for making it another sell out. The weather looks great (again!). Timings Parish Hall Doors open 10.30am 11am Dr Hope Wolf and Alex Leith from ROSA magazine discuss modernist artists in Sussex 12-2pm lunch 2pm Justin Hopper in conversation with Tom Bolton about his book […]

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Angels in the Cellar

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2025/04/29

More than a description of wine making, Peter Hahn’s ‘Angels in the Cellar’, recently published by Little Toller, is a celebration of nature and a love of the land, the seasons and the soil, writes Paul Bursche. There is a word in the Celtic languages that I love, for both its sound and its meaning. […]

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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest...

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2025/04/27

March’s gifts are delivered to crofters Annie Worsley and Kirsteen Bell on bog myrtle-scented winds. Dear Kirsteen, How are you? I have just re-read your beautiful gull poem. I was out earlier this morning in a strong gusting wind and overhead gulls were spiralling upwards, and I thought of you. How the world has changed […]

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Bats of Buckfastleigh

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2025/04/26

Dan Richards introduces a chiropteran extract from his latest book ‘Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark’ — a celebration of all things nocturnal. In June 2023, I visited Devon to see bats of Buckfastleigh as research for a book that I was writing about the nocturnal world. I was joined by Ava Osbiston, a local life-coach […]

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Competition Results

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2025/04/24

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had two copies of Kim Taplin’s The English Path to give away, courtesy of Little Toller. We asked: Published in 1990, what was the name of Kim Taplin’s first full-length collection of poems? And the answer is: By the Harbour Wall. The winners are Gail […]

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