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2024/11/14

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Melissa Harrison’s brand new Homecoming: A Guided Journal to Lead You Back to Nature to give away, courtesy of Weidenfeld & Nicolson. We asked: What was the name of Melissa’s popular, award-nominated podcast? And the answer is: The Stubborn […]

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Last-minute tickets: HEAR HARD

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2024/11/14

We have a very limited number of last-minute ticket returns for our long-sold-out HEAR HARD events with Bill Drummond and Tam Dean Burn in Wendover tonight, Lewes tomorrow, and London on Saturday. Bag them here (£10). Timings are as follows: Real Magic Books, Wendover, 14th November Shop open from 6.30pm Arrival by 7pm for imminent […]

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Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum

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2024/11/13

Journeyed and lively, Luke Thompson’s latest book reveals the trap of ventriloquism we often fall into when attempting to converse with other animals, writes Abi Andrews. In the beginning, I misread DomaDomaDoma-BlumBlumBlum by Luke Thompson, so I’m letting you know in the hope you won’t then fall into the same trap of expectation as me, and […]

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Nightshade Mother

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2024/11/02

Interrogating a fraught relationship with an abusive parent, ‘Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling’ — the recently published memoir of Wales’ first National Poet Gwyneth Lewis — is beautiful, fierce, and wise, writes Pamela Petro. It is always pure pleasure to read a book that crackles with intelligence, sparks of wit and insight flying like static electricity […]

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CBTR x Holly Astle Christmas Cards

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2024/11/01

We’re thrilled to have had this year’s seasonal Caught by the River cards designed by Holly Astle. Holly is an illustrator based in Falmouth, Cornwall. She is greatly influenced by her local surroundings of the coast and her deep love of the natural world. To find inspiration Holly may be found walking the coast path […]

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Competition Results

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2024/10/31

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three new paperback copies of Rupert Callender’s What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking to give away, courtesy of Chelsea Green. We asked: Ru’s first makeshift hearse was produced by which car manufacturer? And the answer is: Volvo. The winners […]

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Archive Diving for Halloween

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2024/10/31

Samhain greetings! To get you in the mood for your turnip-carving, we’ve had a rummage in the cobwebbed corners of the Caught by the River archive in pursuit of the eerie, the spooky and the wyrd… Junior Homemaker magazine, October 1972 Why not revisit: Dean Hassell’s Halloween on the River Chelmer Nina Lyon’s walk from the […]

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Riversong

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2024/10/30

‘Our fate flows with that of rivers, and always has’, write Robert Macfarlane and Nick Hayes as they introduce ‘Riversong’ — their latest collaborative poster. Following in the footsteps of ‘Heartwood‘ — created ‘for anyone defending trees, woods or forests from unjust felling’ — Riversong is ‘a “broadside ballad” which protests the slow death of […]

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Alchemist at work

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2024/10/29

First open as an interactive space on the Dartington Estate in South Devon last year, photographs from Siân Davey’s ‘The Garden’ are on display as a free exhibition outside London’s Photographers’ Gallery until the end of November. Kirsteen McNish reflects on a work in which vulnerability, bravery, release and freedom are embroidered between the echinacea, […]

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Flames

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2024/10/27

A poem by Nicola Healey. The willow corrodes slowly: slivery leaves shrivel and curl on the withe like dying fish but the cherry comes alight one leaf at a time, touched with fire. Brighter than spring. Each lucid red oval hangs on to nothing, like a tear that won’t fall. As I watch, one leaf […]

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Notes from Cushendall

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2024/10/26

Caught by the River spent 2023 sentencing writers and artists to time in a tower in a far corner of these islands. A year to the day, eighth Curfew Tower inmate Lally MacBeth shares notes and observations from beside the gorse-loaded range of Johnny Joe’s Pub. Letter 2 Johnny Joe’s Pub, 26th October, 19.35 We have […]

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Competition Results

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2024/10/24

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week we had three copies of A Winter Dictionary to give away courtesy of Elliot & Thompson. We asked: On what date will A Winter Dictionary be published? The answer is: 24th October (yesterday). Our lucky winners are Steve Longbottom, Paul Redhead and Julia Maxte. […]

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Now Playing

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2024/10/24

‘Anthropocene’ by Tiny Leaves. Taken from the two-part suite Anthropocene & Above/Below, due for release on 5th November. Anthropocene takes its name from the proposed geological epoch that marks significant human impact on Earth. It serves as a lament for the accelerating loss of biodiversity and the growing list of endangered species. Drawing on a […]

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‘Seh Feh’ Nan Shepherd and the Cairngorms

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2024/10/23

Zakiya McKenzie considers the language of defiance, taunts and dares in Scots, Jamaican patois and Nan Shepherd’s ‘The Living Mountain’. Image: Nicholas Githiri The Cairngorm Mountains in Northeast Scotland were Nan Shepherd’s stomping ground. It is a frosty range, often snow-topped with whiteout weather, it is the coldest place in Great Britain. The maximum temperature […]

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The National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair

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2024/10/22

Ladies and gentlemen You are given notice that on Sunday 17th November the next edition of The National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair will take place at the holy site of Redditch, the spiritual home of British fishing tackle manufacturing. The fair – part riot and explosion of joy and wonder, part homage, part homecoming, part […]

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Pemberley Natural History Books

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2024/10/20

Paul Bursche unearths a nature-book-lover’s paradise in Buckinghamshire. If you are into any aspect of natural history and you also like books, then I may have found your Shangri-La. It lies in the Civil Parish of Iver in Buckinghamshire where, in a small and unremarkable residential street a few minutes’ walk from Iver Station, just […]

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Tales of Cushendall

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2024/10/19

Caught by the River spent 2023 sentencing writers and artists to time in a tower in a far corner of these islands. Matthew Shaw, the seventh person to have served time in the Curfew Tower, shares two audio relics from his residency… These two pieces were composed in the tower. The piece with Feargal was […]

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Competition Results

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2024/10/17

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week we had a copy of The Keelie Hawk by Kathleen Jamie to give away courtesy of Picador. We asked: In which Yorkshire town were Caught by the River lucky enough to host an evening which featured Katherine Jamie and Amy Liptrot in conversation? The […]

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An Encounter

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2024/10/17

For Saskia McCracken, worlds collide — briefly — in the hallway of a Glasgow tenement flat. As I pulled back the curtains in each room, just a little light leaked in. The sky was that low, heavy grey, where the clouds don’t have shapes, they are simply all there is. Every room in the flat […]

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Pleasant Place Issue 6: Topiary

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2024/10/16

New in our Bandcamp shop, the latest issue of Pleasant Place — a growing collection of publications about the art of gardening — focuses on topiary. Topiary is the practice of trimming and pruning trees and shrubs into clearly defined and fanciful shapes. As an art form, it is a type of living sculpture, and […]

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