Caught by the River
@caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Shadows & Reflections: Melissa Harrison looks back over a year of rivers both real and imagined www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
December 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Shadows & Reflections: Melissa Harrison looks back over a year of rivers both real and imagined www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
‘To speak the words of a land in the landscape that shaped the sounds themselves is a powerful thing.’
@matthewmshaw.bsky.social spent this year becoming increasingly interested in Kernewek — the language of Cornwall www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
@matthewmshaw.bsky.social spent this year becoming increasingly interested in Kernewek — the language of Cornwall www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
‘To speak the words of a land in the landscape that shaped the sounds themselves is a powerful thing.’
@matthewmshaw.bsky.social spent this year becoming increasingly interested in Kernewek — the language of Cornwall www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
@matthewmshaw.bsky.social spent this year becoming increasingly interested in Kernewek — the language of Cornwall www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
‘[Speech and memory] are only abstract concepts until someone says they’re ready to stick a knife in. Then they become very, very real.’
For @robinturner.bsky.social, 2025 was spent making sense of a scattered brain www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
For @robinturner.bsky.social, 2025 was spent making sense of a scattered brain www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
‘[Speech and memory] are only abstract concepts until someone says they’re ready to stick a knife in. Then they become very, very real.’
For @robinturner.bsky.social, 2025 was spent making sense of a scattered brain www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
For @robinturner.bsky.social, 2025 was spent making sense of a scattered brain www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
‘Think Trainspotting but Downland gravediggers, not Scottish smackheads.’
Recently published by Rough Trade Books, Sam Reid’s ‘The Pin Jar’ is full of the kind of ghost stories told by mad bastards in the Sussex pubs of @mathewclayton.bsky.social ’s youth www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/the-...
Recently published by Rough Trade Books, Sam Reid’s ‘The Pin Jar’ is full of the kind of ghost stories told by mad bastards in the Sussex pubs of @mathewclayton.bsky.social ’s youth www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/the-...
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
‘Think Trainspotting but Downland gravediggers, not Scottish smackheads.’
Recently published by Rough Trade Books, Sam Reid’s ‘The Pin Jar’ is full of the kind of ghost stories told by mad bastards in the Sussex pubs of @mathewclayton.bsky.social ’s youth www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/the-...
Recently published by Rough Trade Books, Sam Reid’s ‘The Pin Jar’ is full of the kind of ghost stories told by mad bastards in the Sussex pubs of @mathewclayton.bsky.social ’s youth www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/the-...
Plant an oak for hope: as our seasonal reflections continue, @lallymacbeth.bsky.social looks back over a year of finding acorns, and helping them take root www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Plant an oak for hope: as our seasonal reflections continue, @lallymacbeth.bsky.social looks back over a year of finding acorns, and helping them take root www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Please note that the last day we will posting Bandcamp orders before Christmas is a week today, Tuesday 16th December. Orders placed by midday will be dispatched before we lock up the office and put our feet up in front of the fire 🎄 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/last...
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Please note that the last day we will posting Bandcamp orders before Christmas is a week today, Tuesday 16th December. Orders placed by midday will be dispatched before we lock up the office and put our feet up in front of the fire 🎄 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/last...
‘By summer’s end I had an entire housing estate of avian abodes, a metropolis of miniscule mansions for our feathered friends.’
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
‘By summer’s end I had an entire housing estate of avian abodes, a metropolis of miniscule mansions for our feathered friends.’
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
‘It feels like a breath on the page.’
Shadows & Reflections: in 2025, Nicola Healey discovered a perfect poem www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Shadows & Reflections: in 2025, Nicola Healey discovered a perfect poem www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
December 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
‘It feels like a breath on the page.’
Shadows & Reflections: in 2025, Nicola Healey discovered a perfect poem www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Shadows & Reflections: in 2025, Nicola Healey discovered a perfect poem www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
We’re doing things a little differently on this afternoon’s newsletter. In the spirit of the season, we’ll be offering up the chance to win £23 to spend in our Bandcamp shop.
Make sure you’re signed up to our mailing list for entry details!
Make sure you’re signed up to our mailing list for entry details!
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We’re doing things a little differently on this afternoon’s newsletter. In the spirit of the season, we’ll be offering up the chance to win £23 to spend in our Bandcamp shop.
Make sure you’re signed up to our mailing list for entry details!
Make sure you’re signed up to our mailing list for entry details!
'For years, we have told a story of bogs as unproductive, unattractive; dangerous places of waste, empty landscapes we pass through.'
Read an extract from editor @clareshawpoet.bsky.social's contribution to ‘The Book of Bogs' — our December Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/book...
Read an extract from editor @clareshawpoet.bsky.social's contribution to ‘The Book of Bogs' — our December Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/book...
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
'For years, we have told a story of bogs as unproductive, unattractive; dangerous places of waste, empty landscapes we pass through.'
Read an extract from editor @clareshawpoet.bsky.social's contribution to ‘The Book of Bogs' — our December Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/book...
Read an extract from editor @clareshawpoet.bsky.social's contribution to ‘The Book of Bogs' — our December Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/book...
#NowPlaying: ‘Reinita Canadiense’ by Mas Aya & Lido Pimienta. Taken from Shika Shika’s incredible recent compilation 'A Guide to the Birdsong of Migration', which brings together birds and musicians who share the same migratory routes www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/now-...
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#NowPlaying: ‘Reinita Canadiense’ by Mas Aya & Lido Pimienta. Taken from Shika Shika’s incredible recent compilation 'A Guide to the Birdsong of Migration', which brings together birds and musicians who share the same migratory routes www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/now-...
‘The webs are beaded with dew, each a work of art, dangling in the tussock […] All that lies rough and ragged has been made ethereal.’
Gwennie Fraser recalls an autumn day wrapped in gossamer www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Photo: Simon Fraser
Gwennie Fraser recalls an autumn day wrapped in gossamer www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Photo: Simon Fraser
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
‘The webs are beaded with dew, each a work of art, dangling in the tussock […] All that lies rough and ragged has been made ethereal.’
Gwennie Fraser recalls an autumn day wrapped in gossamer www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Photo: Simon Fraser
Gwennie Fraser recalls an autumn day wrapped in gossamer www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Photo: Simon Fraser
'With the sparrows around, the garden feels inhabited in a way it didn’t before. It feels alive.'
Kicking off our annual series of end-of-year musings, Jill Hopper reflects on 2025: The Year of the Sparrow www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Kicking off our annual series of end-of-year musings, Jill Hopper reflects on 2025: The Year of the Sparrow www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
'With the sparrows around, the garden feels inhabited in a way it didn’t before. It feels alive.'
Kicking off our annual series of end-of-year musings, Jill Hopper reflects on 2025: The Year of the Sparrow www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
Kicking off our annual series of end-of-year musings, Jill Hopper reflects on 2025: The Year of the Sparrow www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
We've just added some staff picks to our @bookshop.org page.
When you buy through our page, we earn a commission, plus Bookshop donates a matching sum to independent bookshops. There's also FREE SHIPPING until Monday! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/staf...
Image: Book token by Gwen White, 1936
When you buy through our page, we earn a commission, plus Bookshop donates a matching sum to independent bookshops. There's also FREE SHIPPING until Monday! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/staf...
Image: Book token by Gwen White, 1936
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We've just added some staff picks to our @bookshop.org page.
When you buy through our page, we earn a commission, plus Bookshop donates a matching sum to independent bookshops. There's also FREE SHIPPING until Monday! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/staf...
Image: Book token by Gwen White, 1936
When you buy through our page, we earn a commission, plus Bookshop donates a matching sum to independent bookshops. There's also FREE SHIPPING until Monday! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/staf...
Image: Book token by Gwen White, 1936
‘Fragments of knowledge and imagination flicker in and out of view, like sunlight in seagrass.’
Christina Riley’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’, November BOTM, gently leads us to a love that is born from looking, writes Kirsteen Bell — and to hope 🪸✨ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...
Christina Riley’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’, November BOTM, gently leads us to a love that is born from looking, writes Kirsteen Bell — and to hope 🪸✨ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
‘Fragments of knowledge and imagination flicker in and out of view, like sunlight in seagrass.’
Christina Riley’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’, November BOTM, gently leads us to a love that is born from looking, writes Kirsteen Bell — and to hope 🪸✨ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...
Christina Riley’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’, November BOTM, gently leads us to a love that is born from looking, writes Kirsteen Bell — and to hope 🪸✨ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...
A collaboration between naturalist/writer @steverutt.bsky.social and audio-visual artist Claire Todd, ‘Echoes & Whispers’ is a creative evaluation of bat conservation in the Solway region www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/echo...
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A collaboration between naturalist/writer @steverutt.bsky.social and audio-visual artist Claire Todd, ‘Echoes & Whispers’ is a creative evaluation of bat conservation in the Solway region www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/echo...
[email protected]’s ‘Village’ & a re-issue of Mary Chamberlain’s ‘Fenwomen’ give voice to an otherwise largely silent corner of England, writes @nicolawriting.bsky.social, telling the evocative, hard-lived stories of rural working class women www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/vill...
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
[email protected]’s ‘Village’ & a re-issue of Mary Chamberlain’s ‘Fenwomen’ give voice to an otherwise largely silent corner of England, writes @nicolawriting.bsky.social, telling the evocative, hard-lived stories of rural working class women www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/vill...
In our latest subscriber-exclusive interview, Christina Riley speaks to Tallulah about the writings of Rachel Carson, seeing the world through a scallop’s eyes, and the inherent poetry of the sea.
Preview here, or subscribe / sign in to read in full: steady.page/en/caughtbyt...
Preview here, or subscribe / sign in to read in full: steady.page/en/caughtbyt...
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In our latest subscriber-exclusive interview, Christina Riley speaks to Tallulah about the writings of Rachel Carson, seeing the world through a scallop’s eyes, and the inherent poetry of the sea.
Preview here, or subscribe / sign in to read in full: steady.page/en/caughtbyt...
Preview here, or subscribe / sign in to read in full: steady.page/en/caughtbyt...
Reading doesn’t make you a better person: Tallulah Brennan speaks to @noreenmasud.bsky.social about the mystery of flat landscapes, the current state of nature writing, & the book industry’s reticence to support Palestinian liberation & fossil fuel divestment www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/read...
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reading doesn’t make you a better person: Tallulah Brennan speaks to @noreenmasud.bsky.social about the mystery of flat landscapes, the current state of nature writing, & the book industry’s reticence to support Palestinian liberation & fossil fuel divestment www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/read...
We have three copies of Simon Winchester’s 'The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of William Collins. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We have three copies of Simon Winchester’s 'The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of William Collins. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!
Written by a diverse group of farmers, foresters, smallholders, campaigners, academics, consultants and writers, ‘Common Treasures’ Vols. 1 & 2 offer an alternative perspective on the future of the countryside, writes @jenniferedgecombe.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/comm...
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Written by a diverse group of farmers, foresters, smallholders, campaigners, academics, consultants and writers, ‘Common Treasures’ Vols. 1 & 2 offer an alternative perspective on the future of the countryside, writes @jenniferedgecombe.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/comm...
NEW in the shop: The hotly anticipated third instalment of the South London Landscape History 'Commonplace' zine series, this time focusing on One Tree Hill to Peckham Rye Common rivertones.bandcamp.com/merch/one-tr...
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
NEW in the shop: The hotly anticipated third instalment of the South London Landscape History 'Commonplace' zine series, this time focusing on One Tree Hill to Peckham Rye Common rivertones.bandcamp.com/merch/one-tr...
Newly out in paperback, @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'The Company of Owls' (@eandtbooks.bsky.social) demonstrates how we can be better neighbours to the nonhuman, writes Abi Andrews 🦉 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Newly out in paperback, @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'The Company of Owls' (@eandtbooks.bsky.social) demonstrates how we can be better neighbours to the nonhuman, writes Abi Andrews 🦉 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/the-...
BOUGHT BY THE RIVER: With the festive period just around the corner, we wanted to share a few ways you can support Caught by the River in the season of giving www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/boug...
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
BOUGHT BY THE RIVER: With the festive period just around the corner, we wanted to share a few ways you can support Caught by the River in the season of giving www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/boug...
We have three copies of Jean Sprackland's 'Night Vision' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @jonathancape.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We have three copies of Jean Sprackland's 'Night Vision' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @jonathancape.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!