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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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‘Flow’ zine – call for entries

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2025/04/24

The Dartmoor Collective has published three open call photozines (Water, A Worked Landscape, and Linear), and staged three annual exhibitions showcasing work from a diverse range of artists working with Dartmoor as their theme. Following on from the success of these events and publications, the collective has announced that submissions are now open for a […]

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Harmonic Rain

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2025/04/22

Mexican classical guitarist Morgan Szymanski and Scottish artist Tommy Perman will release their second album Songs for the Mist Forest on Blackford Hill in July. While their first album explored the sounds of the Scottish woodland where Tommy’s parents live, their new album is inspired by Morgan’s ranch in the mist forests of Valle de Bravo, […]

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On Not Hearing Curlews

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2025/04/21

On World Curlew Day, Gwennie Fraser laments diminishing evidence of curlews in the Northumbrian uplands. Photo: Simon Fraser I am listening for them, but I am just not hearing them. The chiffchaffs are back, echoing around the garden with their sweet banter, pied wagtails are dipping along the fence line, and the deciduous woodland behind […]

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Peckerwood: Field notes from a feral’d garden

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2025/04/20

The sap is rising in Mark Mattock’s “feral’d” garden in NW2. March: Love songs from the green uprising “You can take me to the garden of Eden, leave me there, and see me play” – Neneh Cherry, ‘Synchronised Devotion’. The loved-up wood pigeons are snogging and necking again, on their love stick; the bare naked […]

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Red Herring

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2025/04/19

Red Herring, a new exhibition of photographs, ceramics, archival exploration and installation works by Joanne Coates, has just gone on display at Timespan, Helmsdale. Red Herring explores the overlooked histories of women’s labour and class solidarity through the legacy of the Herring Girls — an itinerant all-female workforce central to the fishing industry between the […]

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Sue Brooks’ Radio Recommendations

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2025/04/18

Sue Brooks writes in memoriam of Radio 4’s ‘A Point of View’. Illustration: Pete Fowler. Radio 4’s weekly programme on Friday evenings, A Point of View, has vanished: removed to the BBC Archive in the sky. On March 28th, I read in the Schedule, that Howard Jacobson will be presenting the final programme. The last […]

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Competition Results

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2025/04/17

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a hardback copy of James Canton’s Renaturing and a paperback copy of John Lister-Kaye’s Footprints in the Woods to give away, both recently published by Canongate. We asked: What is the name of the taxonomic family to which the creatures covered in Footprints […]

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Caught by the River Book of the Month: April

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2025/04/16

Ken Worpole’s ‘Brightening from the East: Essays on Landscape and Memory’, newly published by Little Toller, is our April Book of the Month. Luke Turner reviews, finding the richness of humanity brought to life in its pages. In Ken Worpole’s writing, people are always at the heart of place. As he wrote in his influential […]

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Everything Happens for a Season

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2025/04/15

Director and choreographer Ruth Allen introduces ‘Everything Happens for a Season’ — a film made with Rob St John which asks: What does it mean to listen to the world? If the many interconnected crises of our times — climate emergency, declining mental health, diminished connectedness and ensuing loneliness — are crises of relationship, then […]

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Another world is possible

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2025/04/13

Reforestation, bread babies, and owls from the underworld: Honey Davis-Wilkinson tries alternative living in the Andes, accompanied by her 35mm camera. In 2008, two British women set up an eco village in Equador called Rhiannon Community, named after the mythical Welsh goddess. It’s situated in the Andes Mountains, at an altitude of 2,650m, one hour’s […]

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Skillie

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2025/04/12

Louisa Thomsen Brits considers the symbolic significance of the lark. Dawn. Fog has claimed the Downs. Spilling, clouding, curling, swirling through coombe and catch. Above the billowing brume, naked hills swell smooth in dips and curves like sleeping figures half hidden by the froth of an eiderdown pushed aside during the night. Dark silhouettes of […]

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Upcoming at Field System Gallery

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2025/04/11

This Beltane, in the historic Stannary town of Ashburton, Field System Gallery and Ashburton Arts Centre present a town-wide and inclusive celebration of the arrival of summer. The Lore and Land III art exhibition opens at 6pm on Thursday 1st May in the Field System gallery. This group show explores the otherworldly, the bestial, connections […]

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