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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
We're thrilled to invite you to a very special event on the Elmley Nature Reserve this May www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/a-ca...
Tickets go on sale via our homepage this coming Monday, 9th March, at 3pm, along with further lineup, accommodation and travel details.
Poster: @willrose.bsky.social
‘Here is a place of landlines, phone boxes and overhead pylons rather than wind farms, 5G masts and QR codes...’
Berris Conolly’s arresting photographs are proof that there is nothing so distant and strange as the recent past, writes Travis Elborough www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/trav...
'Young Ian, the former owner may be the same age as me, for then was my first fleeting dalliance with the beautiful game.'
FITBA CRAZY: Cally Callomon delights in swap-and-stick football ephemera www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/fitb...
Today on the site: @matthewmshaw.bsky.social bids farewell to People Need Nature, the charity that has been promoting nature’s emotional, sensory and spiritual value since 2015 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/a-tr...
'The crow hops. Rain threatens. Nothing stays the same.'
As Jeb Loy Nichols drops the needle on his latest record selection, time wobbles, and he’s twenty-two again www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/jebs...
Hello — the film adaptation of my book Underland will be showing at the BFI IMAX on 1 April.
It should be spectacular on the 26m-high screen there.
Tickets go on sale at 4pm today (Friday) here via bfi.org.uk.
I’ll be there for a Q&A with the director, Rob Petit, who’s created an extraordinary film.
‘Roaming the land, filling the streets “are where kind hearts find each other”.’
Shadows & Reflections: Mark Mattock on a year of enacting empathy in the midst of an anti-life rampage www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
As persecution of wildlife becomes increasingly culturally embedded, Contributing Editor Tallulah Brennan urges us to side with the newts and microscopic snails for a chance at a richer life 🐌 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
Sunflowers, split plums and acorn-cup boats: Bringing Shadows & Reflections season to a close a little later than anticipated, site editor @divaeh.bsky.social shares a few pages from her 2025 diary www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
In our latest subscriber exclusive, @jallenpaisant.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about the poetic impulses of the Caribbean, vernacular intimacy with plants, and soil as an emblem of life & death steady.page/en/caughtbyt...
Author photo: Ferrante Ferrante
Sunflowers, split plums and acorn-cup boats: Bringing Shadows & Reflections season to a close a little later than anticipated, site editor @divaeh.bsky.social shares a few pages from her 2025 diary www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
In our latest subscriber exclusive, @jallenpaisant.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about the poetic impulses of the Caribbean, vernacular intimacy with plants, and soil as an emblem of life & death steady.page/en/caughtbyt...
Author photo: Ferrante Ferrante
As persecution of wildlife becomes increasingly culturally embedded, Contributing Editor Tallulah Brennan urges us to side with the newts and microscopic snails for a chance at a richer life 🐌 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
‘Roaming the land, filling the streets “are where kind hearts find each other”.’
Shadows & Reflections: Mark Mattock on a year of enacting empathy in the midst of an anti-life rampage www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
'I suspect part of the reason for doing it is the need to evidence existence, just as writing these words is.'
His love for cycling reinvigorated, @unpopularuk.bsky.social spent much of 2025 colouring in maps www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
Shadows & Reflections: Mark Hooper looks back over a year that put us all on Boil Notice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
‘I have heard discorporate voices at my shoulder and strange, unplaceable music. I have questioned both where and who I am.’
As a yet-to-be-built bungalow beckons, @muggerhanger1922.bsky.social concludes his relationship with a mysterious field www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
‘It was unfamiliar territory, but I was not lost.’
In Edinburgh, @walknodonkey.bsky.social spent 2025 on a quest for a hidden river www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
New in the Shop: Taken in 2023 on a three week road trip around the West Coast of America, James Meredew’s 'The Shady Motel & Other American Monuments' is an offbeat, mostly people-less view of a tired-looking American landscape www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/new-...
‘The soup cleared to consommé and steam curled off the backs of the cows.’
Shadows & Reflections: @kevparr.bsky.social on a 2025 of high winds and topsy-turvy seasons www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
Today we launch a new bonus feature for members, in which writers share their most pleasurable moments of Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter.
This month, Amy Liptrot shares the joys of clear night skies, rosy cheeks, cold air in the lungs & ice smashed with sticks 💫 steady.page/en/caughtbyt...
‘The fruit trees, deciduous and mycelium became one place, habitat united, 3-in-1, a forest garden as I sat and watched.’
Dexter Petley reflects on the year his field became a forest www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
'I’m just on a simple path in life now: to strip out all the crap, all the artifice.'
Shadows & Reflections: Ian Preece shares another year in books, records, film, life and community www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
Back in stock just in time for Bandcamp Friday! A new run of the much-loved and previously out of print vol. 2 of South London Landscape History’s South London Commons zines, focusing on Woolwich Common to Eltham Common www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/back...
Shadows & Reflections: Emma Warren contemplates 2025’s dust — and slender but powerful rays of light www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
‘The Book of Bogs contains fragile, furious, resilient ecosystems of writing, demanding the protection of a vulnerable environment we need more than we know.’ Wonderful review of a spell of a book I’m so proud to be in, by @jennychambles.bsky.social @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
#NowPlaying: Something to conjure crisp green growth from the mind-mud, courtesy of Juni Habel www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/now-...
We're drawing out our most favourite season of submissions just a little bit longer.
In one of the last handful of 2025/6's Shadows & Reflections, artist and writer Sam Francis contemplates the Malvern hills — which hold her family history in their haunches www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/02/shad...
‘Consider it a spell, to encircle the wild peat of your heart.’
Brontës and Boggarts: @jennychambles.bsky.social sinks into @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and Anna Chilvers’ (eds), ‘The Book of Bogs’ (@littletollerbooks.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/the-...
We’re pleased to announce that we will be digitally releasing @hannahpeel.bsky.social's score to the film adaptation of @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s bestselling UNDERLAND on our Rivertones label on 27th March — the same day the film hits cinemas.
More info: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/01/unde...