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Literature and Landscape

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2024/09/07

From Friday 4th to Sunday 6th Oct at The Maltings, Wells-next-the-Sea, the inaugural Literature and Landscape festival will celebrate the unique landscapes of North Norfolk and the British Isles. Alice Oswald, Robert Macfarlane and Adam Nicolson will read from their own work and talk about rivers: how we connect with them, how we own, nurture […]

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Irish Writers Centre: Climate Writing Session

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2024/09/05

For the next of the Irish Writers Centre’s online Climate Writing Sessions, taking place on 18th September, host Kerri ní Dochartaigh will be joined by British-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist and author Dr. Sarah Thomas, and Caught by the River editor Diva Harris. There is no fee for attending these sessions, intended as a gift to all […]

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Common Name

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2024/09/04

Just out with out with indie publisher Osmosis Press, Saskia McCracken’s prose poetry pamphlet Common Name explores the strange common names of seaweeds, such as sea beef, creeping tongue and oyster thief. To celebrate the pamphlet’s release, find a short excerpt below. Common Most seaweed has, as well as a Latin name given by a man […]

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Twenty Six Achill Hearths

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2024/09/03

An edition of 6 handmade portfolios comprising 26 photographs and an essay, Kate Mount’s ‘Twenty Six Achill Hearths’ collects the photographer’s images of hearths found in abandoned cottages on the Irish island of Achill, Co. Mayo — a place Kate first visited with her grandmother more than 60 years ago. Here Kate introduces the project, […]

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Spoken Word & Nature Disco Vol. 10

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2024/09/02

Following its first play on James Endeacott’s Morning Glory show on Soho Radio this morning, Spoken Word & Nature Disco Vol. 10 — a special Scottish edition compiled by Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman — is now available to stream via our Mixcloud. The mix celebrates the release of Andrew and Tommy’s album Ash Grey […]

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Forest Bass: Dispatches from a cabin in the woods

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2024/09/01

Mark Mattock takes a break from the cabin to embark on an annual, violet-winged pilgrimage. “And the highest enjoyment of timelessness ― in a landscape selected at random ― is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain.” […]

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And the Roots of Rhythm Remain

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2024/08/31

Andy Childs reviews Joe Boyd’s gargantuan 929-page journey through global music — a formidably substantial, defiant, comprehensive and articulate stance, he writes, against modern technological encroachments on music-making. When I first heard, quite a while ago now, that Joe Boyd was writing a ‘history of world music’ I remember thinking that there probably isn’t a […]

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Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On

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2024/08/30

Happy release day to Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman, whose collaborative album Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On is out today on Clay Pipe Music. Listen to ‘Be The Hammer’ (Featuring Aidan Moffat) below. To celebrate the album’s release, Andrew and Tommy have compiled a special Scottish edition of our mix series Spoken Word […]

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Competition Results

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2024/08/29

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a pair of tickets to the sold out London screening and after party of POINT OF CHANGE — the story of an island community changed forever by surfing (dir Rebecca Coley) — to give away. We asked: Who created 5 exclusive songs […]

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Paperboats Poetry Competition

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2024/08/29

Paperboats, the collective of Scotland-based authors, artists and activists focused on nature and environment, is inviting writers of all ages to submit their haiku poems to be in with the chance to win a cash prize and be published in a special Zine dedicated to the traditional Japanese poem. The haiku — consisting of three […]

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Field System Gallery — September to November

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2024/08/27

Field System Gallery, Ashburton, Devon, has announced its upcoming exhibition schedule for the last slice of the year — the work of four more artists set to converse and contrast with the moorland landscape of the gallery’s Dartmoor home. From 7th-21st September is Chloe Bonfield’s Only in the Garden. Chloe’s paintings are a mediation between […]

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Shifting Landscapes

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2024/08/25

Currently streaming on the Emergence Magazine website, Shifting Landscapes is a poignant, unmissable four-part documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of climate catastrophe. Most recent addition to the series, The Last Ice Age follows storyteller Andri […]

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Assynt

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2024/08/24

In the Scottish Highlands, Danny Adcock walks the rows and peaks of geological time. Twelve hours up the road from sleepy Norfolk lanes that, verged with umbellifers and ox eyes, meander gently across the backs of rolling chalk breakers on their way to the coast, I found a landscape of antithesis: of vertiginous drops from […]

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Bank Holiday Sale — 30% off merch

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2024/08/23

Happy long weekend! To celebrate, take 30% off our merch collaboration with Folk via our Bandcamp page. That makes t-shirts £28, bags £17.50, hats £19.50 and our beautiful washed indigo sweatshirts £45.50. We have limited designs and sizes available, so don’t dally. Caught by the River paid subscribers get an extra 10% off — check […]

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Climbing Days

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2024/08/22

Recently reissued by Canongate, Dorothy Pilley’s overlooked climbing memoir of 1935 is a much-needed addition to the canon from a robust and unselfconscious pioneer, writes Anna Fleming. Born in 1894 – a year after Nan Shepherd – Dorothy Pilley offers another embodied journey into the mountains. Unlike Shepherd’s Zen-Buddhist focus on a single mountain range […]

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Let’s Stop Sewage in the Dart

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2024/08/21

On Monday, Friends of the Dart launched a Crowdfunder which aims to eradicate sewage pollution in the river. The grassroots group, established as a community interest company after locals noticed an increase in illness among people using the river, has set a target of £30,000 to be used to cover testing and community engagement. The Devon […]

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Call for submissions: Terroir

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2024/08/20

Audio producer Lucy Dearlove has issued a call for submissions to an edition of In The Dark Radio she is curating for XMTR Festival in St Leonards-on-Sea in September. XMTR will be celebrating sonic storytelling as part of the wider Sono-Electro Sound Arts Festival, taking place 17th-29th September at Electro Studios in St Leonards. The […]

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Dim Traces of Creation

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2024/08/18

Available now via William Arnold’s Bare Pipes Press imprint, Dim Traces of Creation marks the half-way point in the photographer’s beautiful experimental project, The Retinette Series. Described as a ‘monthly photographic stream of consciousness produced from a single roll of 35mm black and white film exposed in a 1950s Kodak Retinette’, each month will eventually be […]

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Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre

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2024/08/17

Birds are the soundtrack to our mornings, they soar through our skies and swoop around our streets, but how well do we really know our feathered friends? Currently on display at The Natural History Museum, Birds: Brilliant & Bizarre invites you to unravel their epic evolutionary story. Today there’s more than 11,000 bird species. From pigeons […]

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Dog Walk Report: July

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2024/08/16

Caught by the River editor Diva Harris’s July dog walks were punctuated by foxgloves, Heart urchins and rare English orchids. Ground cover/wall cover/hedge cover: Foxglove foxglove foxglove foxglove foxglove; endless processions of foxes wearing purple opera gloves to the elbow. English orchids, honeysuckle, hollyhocks, Turkish-delightful roses. Unripe conkers. Blackberries fragrant and far too soon. This […]

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