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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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Now Playing

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2025/04/09

‘Long Pond Lily’ by Hayden Pedigo. Taken from the upcoming album I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away, out on Mexican Summer on 6th June. This song has just been included in the latest update to our Ever-Expanding Spoken Word & Nature Disco Spotify playlist — now over 400 songs and 28 hours long — […]

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Caught by the Reaper: Michael Hurley

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2025/04/08

Jerry David DeCicca pays tribute to the singular folk musician and artist Michael Hurley, who died last week aged 83. I played my first gig with Michael Hurley in a pizza parlor in Bloomington, Indiana called Bear’s Place. Michael was living in Portsmouth, Ohio, a river town two hours from me in Columbus, Ohio. This […]

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Tall fences, old trees

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2025/04/06

Starting on the common of his childhood in North Wales, Eben Myrddin Muse walks through Welsh landscapes public and private — and ponders connection, access, enclosure, and community. I: Comin ‘To where do you trace your roots?’ Me, I grew up in the hills, quarries, and upland commons of western Eryri; a place called Bryn […]

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Jeb’s Jukebox

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2025/04/05

Jeb Loy Nichols flips another record on the deck, in amongst sparrows and dancing women and unpeopled hills. The Devil Gives Me Everything Except What I Need Willie West Timmion Records The simpler and therefore better effect is always obtained by means of temperate and wise restraint. Wrote Gertrude Jekyll. I take the car out […]

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Resonant Architectures

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2025/04/04

Anton Spice spends a weekend at Birkenhead’s Bidston Observatory with drone choir collective NYX. Photo: Ami Bevilacqua. All other photos: Anton Spice. In 1864, under the instruction of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, engineers began excavating several tons of sandstone from the top of Bidston Hill in Birkenhead on The Wirral peninsula, digging away […]

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Lineup addition: Caught by the River Day Out

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2025/04/03

We’re delighted to announce that psych-pop troubadour Hollow Hand has been added to the lineup for this year’s Caught by the River Day Out in Kingston. He will be joining us at the end of the day to play some songs around the Gurdy Stone on Lovebrook Farm. There’s a reminder of the full lineup […]

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The Peculiar People of Essex

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2025/04/01

Newly published by Little Toller, Ken Worpole’s ‘Brightening From the East: Essays on Landscape and Memory’ tells stories of arcadian dreams among the shabby plotlands of eastern England. It’s also our Book of the Month for April. Read an extract below. In the early 1960s my family lived for a short time in Daws Heath, […]

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Sonic Space Time

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2025/03/30

Watch Danny Hammond’s short film meditation on Jem Finer’s 1000-year-long musical composition Longplayer, celebrating its 25 year anniversary at the Trinity Buoy Lighthouse. The film coincides with a rare Longplayer concert at London’s Roundhouse on 5th April. You can buy tickets to Longplayer live here. Follow Longplayer and Danny Hammond on Instagram.

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