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Peckerwood: Field notes from a feral’d garden

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2025/10/25

The spiders are ripening and the foxes are cussing in Mark Mattock‘s “feral’d” NW2 garden. August, September. “When one tugs a single thing in nature, one finds it’s attached to the rest of the world.” — John Muir Without thought I turn off the gas. The throaty snake-like hiss ceases, the seething molten water instantly settles […]

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Now Playing

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2025/10/24

‘Mountain Song’ by Daily Toll. A Profound Non-Event by Daily Toll Taken from the album A Profound Non-Event, out now on Tough Love Records.

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Competition Results

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2025/10/24

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three vinyl copies of Sydney Minsky Sargeant’s new album Lunga to give away, courtesy of Domino. We asked: From which Calderdale market town does Sydney Minsky Sargeant hail? And the answer is: Todmordern. The winners are Elizabeth Billinger, Tom Willis and Catherine Parker. Your […]

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The Human Who Was Afraid of the Dark

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2025/10/23

In an extract from ‘The Company of Owls’, Polly Atkin learns to love the night — and everything that lives in it. Are you now, or have you ever been, afraid of the dark? Of the dark, or what might be moving in it? Of the dark, or a shadow of threat, something lurking just outside […]

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Thinking Like a Mountain

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2025/10/22

Unfolding over two years in the Bergamasque Alps, the Orobie Biennial allows us to explore the porous boundaries between self and other, human and nature, industry and sustainability, writes Anna Fleming. Agnese Galiotto’s ‘La montagna non esiste’, photographed by Nicola Gnesi Studio What does it mean to think like a mountain? For the last two […]

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Beaver Revival

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2025/10/19

Matthew Shaw rejoices in the reintroduction of beavers to Cornwall’s Lost Gardens of Heligan. All photos by Andy Wilson After over 400 years of extinction in the UK, beavers are finally making a comeback. They have been reintroduced in Scotland, England and Wales, Argyll, Cornwall, Dorset, Devon, Herefordshire, Kent and Tayside. The reintroduction of a […]

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The Caught by the River Book of the Month: October

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2025/10/18

October Book of the Month is ‘Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror’. In the following extract, a condensed excerpt from the introduction, anthology editor Hollie Starling considers the disruptive potential of stories to upend fortresses of power. Once a year, the market town of Honiton in Devon performs the rites of a tradition […]

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Now Playing

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2025/10/17

‘Contemplating The Moon’ by Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington. Rebuilding by Jake Xerxes Fussell, James Elkington Taken from the duo’s score to Rebuilding — the new feature film written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The full soundtrack is released on 14th November […]

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Competition Results

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2025/10/16

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had a pair of tickets to Hayden Thorpe’s sold out Song of Ness show at The Barbican to give away, courtesy of the venue. We asked: Which small press published the first (and second) limited editions of Ness, prior to its main Penguin […]

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Wildest Dream

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2025/10/16

Recently published by Ember Press, David Gee’s imagined history of the Green Man is a gift of defiance, of joy, of anger and of hope, writes Eben Myrddin Muse. Wildest Dream by David Gee is a short meditation on the folkloric Green Man. Invigorating and articulate, it feels like a quaffed shot of one of […]

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Caught by the Reaper: D’Angelo

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2025/10/15

Jeb Loy Nichols shares some thoughts on the death of R&B singer D’Angelo, who died yesterday aged 51. Christ it’s a grief, how a body goes his whole way on earth, all his days, and his life is never known. – R. G. Vliet The great blues singer Howling Wolf was once asked what he […]

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England’s Military Heartland

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2025/10/12

‘England’s Military Heartland’ is a unique, insightful, in-depth inquiry into how war ideology, preparation and practice has insinuated itself into the narrative of Salisbury Plain, writes Nicola Chester. The rolling, thunderous booms from the shelling of Salisbury Plain, and lately, the rapid fire, dut-dut-dut-dut from Apache helicopter guns, provide a deeply familiar soundscape at home […]

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Flow

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2025/10/11

Kirsteen McNish introduces ‘Flow’ — a zine made in collaboration with Dartmoor Collective, contemplating the movement and flux which has taken place on the moor over hundreds of thousands of years. Cover painting by Louise Bougourd You are soaked with the cold rain – Like a pelt in tanning liquor. The moor’s swollen waterbelly Swags […]

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To Ness

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2025/10/10

Hayden Thorpe pens a letter to Orford Ness — the mistake-riddled landscape which birthed his latest record. Orford Ness, photographed by Gordon Joly, licensed via Creative Commons. I speak to you now as Shelley’s Frankenstein did the monster. A thing which I once perceived as a conglomerate of lifeless parts, I surely now recognise as […]

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Competition Results

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2025/10/09

Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition… Last week, we had three copies of Hannah Ritchie’s Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change — in 50 Questions and Answers to give away, courtesy of Chatto & Windus. We asked: Hannah Ritchie is a Senior Researcher in the Programme for Global […]

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An unexpected encounter

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2025/10/09

As Jill Hopper walks by the River Wandle, electric blue shoots across the water. Image from ‘A history of British birds’ (London, Groombridge and Sons, 1862-1867, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The hardest thing about the end of the holiday is leaving the kingfishers. For the past decade or so, our friends have lent us […]

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Flowers Made Of Light

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2025/10/07

Written during his father’s ill health, and later recorded in his childhood home, Ben Holton’s ‘Flowers Made Of Light’ inhabits the liminal space between past, present and future, writes Alistair Fitchett. In July of 2024 Ben Holton started writing songs touched by the experience of visiting his ailing father. Visiting every other day, Holton recorded […]

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Tender Omens

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2025/10/06

In amongst the decay of autumn, Saskia McCracken finds signs of new life. Photo: Eugene Golovesov The dead stalks of last years’ geraniums reach up like empty hands from wet flower beds. Their red and pink petals have long since been taken down beneath the soil by worms who turn in the dark among the […]

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Jeb’s Jukebox

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2025/10/04

Jeb Loy Nichols and Turley Richards move through beautiful autumn business in the hills. Beautiful Country Turley Richards 1971 Warner Brothers Last week I walked up to a favourite stand of oak trees, a couple miles from my house. In the middle of the trees is a mossed and worn grave stone. When I get […]

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New in the Shop

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2025/10/03

Just some of the delectable wares available in our Bandcamp shop today, including a few new titles especially uploaded for Bandcamp Friday: Garden of Sorts is a magazine dedicated to exploring the intersection of nature, culture, and humankind. Sacred Plants, vol. 5 considers the integral relationship between humans and plants through the lens of textile […]

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