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Caught by the River ·

2025/07/22

‘Tender of Land’ by M. Sage. Taken from the album Tender / Wading, out on RVNG Intl. in September. The record finds Matthew Sage, aka M. Sage, in the foothills and pastures of Colorado, writing, recording, and returning to a patch of his homeland and identity.

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Usk – A Haiku Sequence

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2025/07/20

Paul Chambers introduces a sequence of haiku that follow the River Usk from upland bog to tidal estuary, and through the cycle of the seasons. These haiku are drawn from a longer work-in-progress exploring the River Usk, and the environments through which it flows, across a full seasonal cycle. Haiku’s precision and attentiveness to momentary detail […]

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The Caught by the River Book of the Month: July

Caught by the River ·

2025/07/19

Published by Faber, Lally MacBeth’s ‘The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk’ is our July Book of the Month. Sophie Parkes reviews, finding an attentive author who not only cares deeply about folk culture, but also the people who create it. The profile of folklore in the UK, and […]

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Call for Submissions: An Antidote to Indifference...

Caught by the River ·

2025/07/18

For the first time in almost 10 years, we’re putting together an issue of our irregular print mag An Antidote to Indifference, dedicated entirely to the count(r)y of Cornwall. And for the first time ever, alongside specially commissioned content from our contributors and friends, we’re opening it up to public submissions. We are looking for […]

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Competition Results

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2025/07/17

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a copy of Travis Elborough’s Writers’ Journeys That Shaped Our World to give away. We asked: Which of the authors listed on the book’s cover is best known for their book about a sperm whale – once described by D. H. Lawrence as “the […]

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The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers:...

Caught by the River ·

2025/07/17

Congratulations to Jem K. Hubbard, who was announced last week as the winner of this year’s Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers. Set up in 2020 by writer Natasha Carthew, the prize aims to break down barriers and create opportunity for working class nature writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. This unique prize is […]

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The Lost Elms

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2025/07/13

Mandy Haggith’s ‘The Lost Elms’, published earlier this month by Wildfire, defies us not to fall in love with elm trees, writes Kirsteen Bell. You could not write a book about elms now without first addressing the threat to their existence. The ghostly imprint of a leaf on the cover of The Lost Elms, over […]

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Philadelphus ‘Belle Étoile’ (Mock Orange) III

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2025/07/12

A poem by Nicola Healey. * Nicola Healey’s work has appeared in Free Bloody Birds, The Hopkins Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her first pamphlet, A Newer Wilderness, won the Michael Marks Poetry Award in 2024.

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Competition Results

Caught by the River ·

2025/07/10

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a copy of Jules Acton’s Oaklore to give away. We asked: For which UK woodland conservation charity is Jules Acton an ambassador? And the answer is: The Woodland Trust. The winner is Barry Vincent. Your book should be with you very soon! […]

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Jeb’s Jukebox

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2025/07/10

Jackie Mittoo, Roland Alphonso and Lennie Hibbert show Jeb Loy Nichols a secret world. Roland Alphonso with Lennie Hibbert and Jackie Mittoo Pure Soul High Note 1968 How awful is the news; how quiet is my morning walk. To my left and right are hedgerows, bracken and brambles, low branches, dark earth, sheep grazed fields. My […]

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The Model Village

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2025/07/09

Lally MacBeth‘s ‘The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten past to the Emerging Future of Folk’ is our Book of the Month for July. Read an extract on model villages below. I must admit that, although I’ve long been intrigued by model villages, I hadn’t until very recently ever visited one – surprising perhaps, given that […]

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Life Cycle of a Moth

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2025/07/08

Rowe Irvin’s ‘Life Cycle of a Moth’, published last month by Canongate, was our Book of the Month for June. As part of a wider folk revival that is wonderfully queer and femme, the book finds in place and tradition what is transgressive, transformative and liberatory, writes Abi Andrews. Rowe Irvin’s Life Cycle of a […]

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Gorse Breaks Gold

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2025/07/06

Open at Alma Artspace, Newquay, until 26th July, ‘Gorse Breaks Gold’ is a group exhibition inspired by a writing by Ursula K. Le Guin in her book Walking in Cornwall, gathering works by artists who make work in response to Cornwall’s landscape and ancient remains. ALMA Artspace CIC is a community arts organisation based in […]

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Caught by the Reaper: Steve Brandl

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2025/07/05

Scott McCready and Grace Brandl pay tribute to a longtime Friend of the River. Punk Rock Warlord Steve Brandl is no longer with us. A friend and enthusiast of Caught by the River, in word form but even more so in person and in situ, Steve’s passing requires marking and sharing: being Caught by the […]

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Competition Results

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2025/07/03

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a copy of Hannah Stitfall’s Wild Treasures: A Year of Extraordinary Encounters with Cornwall’s Wildlife to give away, courtesy of the office bookshelves. We asked: Which red-legged, red-beaked bird is strongly associated with Cornwall — appearing in the county’s emblem and on the […]

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Cogden Beach

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2025/07/03

In Dorset, Jethro Marshall settles in amongst the shingle and sea kale. Along the western end of Chesil Beach on the Dorset Jurassic Coast, lies a small shingle oasis called Cogden. Accessible from the rolling coastal B3165, this 200m stretch of beach is popular with anglers and hardy hikers. But it’s a unique place, a […]

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Caught by the River ·

2025/07/02

‘The Oyster Catcher Brings Protection’ by Laura Cannell. Taken from the EP A Compendium of Beasts – Volume 3, out now on Brawl Records. A Compendium of Beasts Volume 3 by Laura Cannell A Compendium of Beasts – Volume 3 is a modern day Medieval Bestiary in sound. It is the second in a […]

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A Slower Tonic

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2025/07/01

Kristie De Garis takes refuge in the polytunnels of Perthshire’s Tomnah’a Market Garden. As I stepped out of the car, summer rain hissed against the windscreen, quickly building to a wash of static. Jacket over my head, I walked the narrow path to the polytunnels, its edges overtaken by summer growth. Grass seed-heads brushed my […]

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Croft, Coast and Hill: Letters from the Northwest...

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2025/06/29

In their bimonthly letter-swap, crofters Kirsteen Bell and Annie Worsley discuss transformation and biodiversity governed by hands, teeth, tongues and hooves. Dear Annie, I’m starting this letter from a sea-hemmed field in North Uist, Uibhist a Tuabh. I’m here to meet other crofters to get a better understanding of how we might work with our […]

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Writing for Antelope Island

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2025/06/28

On Utah’s Antelope Island, Ron Nelson finds himself surrounded by birds and stormy weather. This track serves as a companion to the essay below, a mix of field recordings from my time on Antelope Island, as well as piano, upright bass, and the Lyra synthesizer. I sit thirty yards above the shoreline, on the westernmost […]

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