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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 1h

‘For several minutes I stood and stared as they looped, settled, flew again, feeling like I was in a dream.’

An unexpected encounter: As Jill Hopper walks by the River Wandle, electric blue shoots across the water www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/jill...

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 2d

This looks great from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social – a campaign to crowdfund a book on the Cumbrian home and work of Kurt Schwitters. I popped into his Merz Barn there a few years ago, a really crackers place then run by people no longer with us

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo...

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 8d

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 1d

Written during his father’s ill health, and later recorded in his childhood home, Ben Holton’s ‘Flowers Made Of Light’ (@waysideandwoodland.bsky.social) inhabits the liminal space between past, present and future, writes @unpopularuk.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/flow...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 2d

'There, amongst the mulch, is a clutch of eggs, far smaller and rounder than any bird’s. Miniature translucent moons. An omen.'

In amongst the decay of autumn, Saskia McCracken finds signs of new life www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/tend...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 5d

'Turley knows. Let’s go out to the beautiful country. Let’s smell the green grass air. Let’s get the hell out of the city.'

Jeb Loy Nichols and Turley Richards move through beautiful autumn business in the hills www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/jebs...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 5d

We have 3 copies of @hannahritchie.bsky.social's new book 'Clearing the Air' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of Chatto & Windus. Make Sure you're signed up to our mailing list for entry details!

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 6d

Just some of the delectable wares available in our shop today, including a few new titles especially uploaded for Bandcamp Friday.

These and many other books, zines & records will also be available on our stall at Sherbet Dab Records & Books market tomorrow, Mason & Fifth, Westbourne Park (12-6pm).

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 6d

#NowPlaying: ‘Whale Station’ by The New Eves 🐋 (@transgressive.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/now-...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 9d

In the first of our new subscriber-exclusive author interviews, @nicolawriting.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about lapwings, spectres of woman-farmers past, and the advent of agricultural chemicals steady.page/en/caughtbyt...

Image: Jeremy Prout

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 8d

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 8d

Our friends at the brilliant @littletollerbooks.bsky.social have just launched a new crowdfunding project for 'Looking for Mr Schwitters' — an innovative and finely illustrated book about the émigré artist Kurt Schwitters’ final years in the Lake District www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/look...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 10d

On a Suffolk beach, Maartje Scheltens meets an artwork that marks out the passage of time, shell-by-shell 🐚 🐚 🐚 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/at-s...

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Barbara Beeckmans @barbarabeeckmans.bsky.social · 9d

Beautiful
"They come with a purpose; I just come to exist."

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 25d

'I wonder if the people in their graves are now surrounded by flint, if it is wedged in between their bones — intertwining minerals.’

From a churchyard bench, Lena Stahl surveys a million years of north Norfolk life www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/grav...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 9d

In the first of our new subscriber-exclusive author interviews, @nicolawriting.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about lapwings, spectres of woman-farmers past, and the advent of agricultural chemicals steady.page/en/caughtbyt...

Image: Jeremy Prout

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 10d

On a Suffolk beach, Maartje Scheltens meets an artwork that marks out the passage of time, shell-by-shell 🐚 🐚 🐚 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/at-s...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 12d

Opening next month at Grey Gallery, London Fields as part of PhotoMonth East London, Frank Watson's 'Out of Whack' considers how we mistreat the English landscape, whilst simultaneously idolising picture postcard depictions of pastoral scenes www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/out-...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 12d

We have 3 copies of @naturalistdara.bsky.social's latest book 'A Wild Child's Guide to Nature at Night' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter courtesy of Macmillan Children's Books. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 13d

Blown away by this. Such an insightful & generous review. You never really know if something has worked, if your true intention has been recognised; if the risk of trying to do something a bit different has paid off. But when someone you admire sees other stuff too, well; totally made up. #booksky

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 14d

'Ghosts of the Farm is a bridge between eras, between classes and perhaps, between people. All it takes is an open heart.'

Melissa Harrison reviews @nicolawriting.bsky.social’s latest — our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 14d

'Ghosts of the Farm is a bridge between eras, between classes and perhaps, between people. All it takes is an open heart.'

Melissa Harrison reviews @nicolawriting.bsky.social’s latest — our September Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/nico...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 14d

From Monday, we are making some big changes to our paid subscription offering, introducing bonus author interviews, seasonal reflections, and reading/watching/listening recommendations, plus, for Lunkers, a 15% discount in our Bandcamp shop.

Details: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/new-...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 14d

Something for the drawing-in nights.

#NowPlaying: ‘Delphinium Bliss’ by Cassandra Jenkins. Taken from the album 'My Light, My Massage Parlor', out now on Dead Oceans www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/now-...

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 17d

This excellent film / reissue project / happening is seeking funds.

Definitely one for fans of Penda's Fen, Robin Redbreast, Red Shift etc.

Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 18d

The good folk of Folklore Tapes are currently crowdfunding their next project: a reimagining and creative expansion of 1969 film 'The Watchers', shot on the moors above Todmorden by students of the Royal College of Art www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/folk...

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 16d

Delighted that @nicolawriting.bsky.social 's 'Ghosts of the Farm is Book of the Month on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social website. Trust me, the horses alone are compelling... but then the story unfolds of one woman's entry into farming...& so much that still haunts us today! Read a tempting extract!

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 18d

The good folk of Folklore Tapes are currently crowdfunding their next project: a reimagining and creative expansion of 1969 film 'The Watchers', shot on the moors above Todmorden by students of the Royal College of Art www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/folk...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 19d

‘What if he asks me the name of a beetle and I don’t know it, what if I can’t answer why the sky is blue, why ladybirds poo little blobs of yellow?’

As froglike jolts signal big life changes, Lucy Underwood considers her proximity to the natural world 🐞 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/betw...

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