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Bright Stream

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2025/03/15

In Oxfordshire, Laura Parker follows glimmering water downstream and back through time. It’s just a slip of a stream. Sixteen miles from clean spring to silt-dulled end, the Glyme glints down shallow valleys and shines below willows. It is the bright stream, Saxon-named glim for its strange gleam. Light has lain on its surface for […]

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Save the Dartington Forest Garden

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2025/03/14

The Agroforestry Research Trust have today issued a press release detailing the intention of their landlord, the Dartington Hall Trust, to end the lease of their groundbreaking 2 acre food forest project — housed on the Dartington Estate for the last 31 years. The garden has brought over 50,000 visitors to the estate, hosted important […]

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Competition Results

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2025/03/13

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a copy of Mainstone Press’s beautiful new book Eric Ravilious through the Eyes of his Contemporaries to give away, courtesy of the publishers. We asked: What was the name of Eric Ravilious’s wife — an accomplished artist in her own right, who is currently […]

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The Learning Something New About Nature Club

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2025/03/13

We received some unexpected and delightful post this week from The Learning Something New About Nature Club — a self-described ‘snail mail project whereby you learn something new about nature every month…’ The project is run by Izzy de Watt, who further explains: ‘What is this Learning Something New About Nature Club? A poster, […]

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Now Playing

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2025/03/12

TOWER 1 by Matthew Shaw. THE TOWER by MATTHEW SHAW Taken from the forthcoming Tower EP — a 4-track EP of ambient drones and electronic meditations recorded by Matthew during a two week sabbatical at the Curfew Tower in Cushendall, Northern Ireland, during Caught by the River’s year of curatorship. The EP is released on […]

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Hey Listen The Leaves Are Falling Florian

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2025/03/11

Hey Listen The Leaves Are Falling Florian, a lovely new zine by Adam Higton, is now available in Adam’s shop. 20pp, 38 drawings with typographic cover, signed edition of 50. Printed on GF Smith Chartreuse by The Holodeck, made in UK. £15 — available here.

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Sunspots | The Last Hundred

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2025/03/09

Sunspots | The Last Hundred — an exhibition showcasing William Arnold’s photographs of the ceremonial landscape of West Penwith — is now open at Hweg gallery, Penzance. Running until 12th April, the series considers the weight given to some markers of heritage value over others. Find more information here. See more of William’s work on […]

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Soil: The World at Our Feet

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2025/03/08

Currently exhibited at London’s Somerset House, ‘Soil: The World at Our Feet’ reimagines its subject as something radical, fruitful and celestial, writes Gareth Thompson. Fly Agaric detail © Marshmallow Laser Feast The burrow-like entrance to Soil: The World at Our Feet feels humid and subterranean. Drifting through an amber warmth you encounter yellow printed slogans […]

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Bandcamp Friday restocks

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2025/03/07

It’s Bandcamp Friday, and previously sold out releases from our Rivertones label are now back in stock. BE•ONE is a four-track album imagines the sound of British summertime as heard by one of the most important members of the animal kingdom – the bee. A hypnotic conceptualisation of the life, work and living environment of […]

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Peckerwood: Field notes from a feral’d garden

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2025/03/06

From the ashes of the cabin rises Peckerwood — Mark Mattock’s observations of his “feral’d” back garden in London NW2. “Crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me…” I know exactly where he is. Not on the twiggy TV aerial gripped to the brick chimney directly opposite, below which a few scattered […]

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Soundcamp / Reveil 2025

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2025/03/04

Soundcamp have announced their 12th annual dawn chorus broadcast, Reveil, will take place from 3rd-4th May 2025. Coinciding with International Dawn Chorus Day, Reveil travels west on live audio feeds from streamers around the world at daybreak, making a loop over one earth day. As in past years, Soundcamp have opened a call for participatory […]

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Chalk Streams Need Your Help

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2025/03/02

The venerable Charles Rangeley-Wilson — contributor, author, and chair of the CaBA chalk stream restoration group — wrote to us this week to ask for help spreading the word about a new petition. Started by Sophie Holloway, the petition urges the government not to drop the proposed and much-needed Chalk Stream Recovery Strategy. Charles contextualises the […]

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Bye Bye Bibby

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2025/03/01

Simon Constantine recalls gardening, beekeeping and bonding with men housed on the Bibby Stockholm. Portland Global Friendship Group and the men at Carey I live about 25 miles from Portland in Dorset. As a kid I visited the island regularly, it being the site of the world-leading Portland Bird Observatory, where many of our migrant […]

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Unfurling: February

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2025/02/28

As Pip Squire’s column on the myth, magic and allure of ferns continues, she contemplates their feathery forms. The roots of the word ‘fern’ in both Greek (pterís) and Anglo-Saxon (fearn) are derived from words meaning feather or wing. When you pair that with the fact that so many ferns are capable of epiphytic growth […]

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Tickets on sale: Secrets of the Thames

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2025/02/27

Mudlark Monika Buttling-Smith examines a green glass poison bottle. © Monika Buttling-Smith / London Museum Tickets are now on sale for the Museum of London Docklands’ highly anticipated exhibition Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures, which opens in just over a month’s time. Twice a day, the River Thames dramatically recedes to expose […]

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Now Playing

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2025/02/26

‘Hoverfly’ by Tara Cunningham and Jack Cooper. Pond Life by Tara Cunningham and Jack Cooper Taken from the album Pond Life, out now on Mossy Tapes. Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham are an improvising duo whose music is largely informed by a shared approach to the guitar; wide open chords, hazy tone and obtuse melody. […]

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Lichen, Moss & Bone: Old Tracks

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2025/02/26

Across the city, Kirsteen McNish catches glimpses of her former life. As the cab travels up and over the carriageway that stretches from Paddington to Euston, I realise I had forgotten the intense traffic of the city. The flow suddenly stems, allowing old memories to seep through the gaps. Back in London, I feel trapped […]

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The Framing of the Earth

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2025/02/24

In an essay written to accompany Richard J. Butler’s paintings of Naxos, Rob St John considers the artist’s micro-topographies — drawn from landscapes both material and imagined. ‘Red Mountain’, courtesy of Canopy Collections. Photography by Ollie Hammick. “Greece is a good place / to look at the moon, isn’t it / You can read by […]

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Jeb’s Jukebox

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2025/02/23

The Cate Gang remind Jeb Loy Nichols that not all humans are monsters. We All Got To Help Each Other The Cates Gang Metromedia 1970 My old buddy is angry. He’s always angry. He calls me up and shouts. I don’t mind. I’m angry too. He’s my friend and if he wants to be angry […]

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Writing for Lost Canyon

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2025/02/22

Ron Nelson walks the canyons of Southern Utah — a world of interlocking fingers and sheltered alcoves, double-kinked river bends, heavy woodland, and crumbling sandy dunes. This is a companion piece of music, a mix of field recordings from Lost Canyon alongside the Lyra synthesizer and an upright piano, intended to be listened to while […]

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