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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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Farm / Mill / Bake

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2025/03/29

Marking her new exhibition ‘Farm / Mill / Bake’, Ryedale Folk Museum speak to documentary photographer Tessa Bunney about capturing organic bread production from field to table. Organic wheat, Denby Hall Barn, Denby Dale Ryedale Folk Museum: We’re so excited to be working with you on Farm / Mill / Bake, Tessa. But can you […]

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The Caught by the River Day Out 2025

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2025/03/28

The Caught by the River Day Out is back for its fourth year. It takes place in the Downland village of Kingston just outside Lewes in Sussex with music, talks, film, beer and books spread across the parish hall, the 13th century church, village farm and pub – all within a few minutes’ walk of […]

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Competition Results

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2025/03/27

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had two copies of Ken Worpole’s Brightening from the East: Essays on Landscape and Memory to give away, courtesy of Little Toller. We asked: To which book by Adrian May, a seasonal journey through the boot sales of Essex, did Ken write the foreword? […]

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The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers

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2025/03/27

Earlier this month, The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers opened for 2025 submissions. The prize was set up in 2020 by writer Natasha Carthew, to create opportunity for working class nature writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. This unique prize returns for a sixth year with support of Gaia Books (an imprint of […]

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Imperfect Publishing

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2025/03/25

Friend of the site and in-house selector Jeb Loy Nichols is crowdfunding his next project, Imperfect Publishing — which aims to put out small-run, beautiful books. Jeb writes: ‘My name is Jeb Loy Nichols and for the past 40 years I’ve been a successful musician, writer and artist. I’ve released 20 records, both on major […]

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Kurt Jackson: Biodiversity / Sea Flower

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2025/03/23

Two new Kurt Jackson exhibitions have just opened in Cornwall. Biodiversity, at Cornwall Museum & Art Gallery, Truro until 7th July, opens windows onto different locations across the UK and explores the spectrum of plant and animal life found there. From train tracks to ancient woodland, peat bogs to urban streams, ecological processes come under […]

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Lighthouses of the UK #21: Lizard Point

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2025/03/22

As Ben Langworthy continues his mission to draw his way around the UK’s lighthouses, he lands at Lizard Point — famed for the exploits of smugglers, wreckers and pirates. If you travel to the southernmost reaches of mainland Britain, you will eventually find yourself at Lizard Point in Cornwall. The area was once famed for […]

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The Pull of the Tors

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2025/03/21

Kirsteen McNish speaks to writer Sophie Pierce and artist Alex Murdin about their connection to the landscape of Dartmoor. Dartmoor, like many moorland spaces, holds a special place in so many people’s psyches. Whilst it is a vast, breathtaking landscape — vibrant with wildlife above and below its surface — it is also a working […]

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Competition Results

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2025/03/20

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a copy of Black Lodge Press’s A Year in the Allotment zine to give away from our very own shop. We asked: Which Caught by the River contributor published their book Mrs Bun’s Allotment Diary last year, based on their column of the same […]

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Unfurling: March

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2025/03/20

On the Spring Equinox, Pip Squire considers the age-old association between ferns and the idea of rebirth. Like the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre — celebrated today on Ostara, the Spring Equinox — ferns have long been associated with ideas of fertility and rebirth. This is partially down to their invisible and mysterious reproductive process: historically misunderstood, […]

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Elegy, Southwest

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2025/03/18

Against a backdrop of climate change, Madeleine Watts’ ‘Elegy, Southwest’ is a lament for a world, a relationship, and the American road-trip novel, writes Abi Andrews. The ‘elegy’ in the title of Madeline Watts, Elegy, Southwest is several. This novel is an elegy for a world, a relationship, and also a form: that of the […]

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Dog Walk Report: February / March

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2025/03/16

Diva Harris (and dog) find hope wedged in the trees. Ground cover / branch cover: mud, litter and last year’s burrs become snowdrops, cyclamen, crocuses, daffodils and narcissus. Spindly trees outside posh houses are soon festooned with the garlands of spring. The start of the year is dark and cold, with little motivation to walk […]

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