Over The Bridge Films are crowdfunding to finish a feature-length documentary on the importance and relevance of music to communities on the Isle of Skye, told by celebrated musicians from the island www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/skye...

We have 3 copies of @hannahcfrench.bsky.social's 'The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @faberbooks.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to our mailing list for entry details!

'Beach objects in the sand begin to read like words on a page, fragments of stories ready to be pieced together.' Read an extract from @christinariley.bsky.social’s ‘Looking Down at the Stars’ — our November Book of the Month (@saraband-books.bsky.social) www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/look...

'There has always been a struggle over who gets remembered and who is written out of the story.' @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social is the latest of our monthly member-exclusive author interviewees. Get a sneak peek here - or sign in or subscribe to read in full! steady.page/en/caughtbyt...

In 'Listers', two brothers learn about competitive birdwatching by becoming birdwatchers — spending a year living in a used minivan, traveling the country to compete in a ‘Big Year'. Watch over on the site today: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/list...

It's a joy and a privilege to exchange letters with crofter/writer Kirsteen Bell. This month we chat about autumn in the Highlands, woodlands old and new, ghosts of the past and distant futures. Happy reading 😊 #naturewriting #writingcommunity

In 'Listers', two brothers learn about competitive birdwatching by becoming birdwatchers — spending a year living in a used minivan, traveling the country to compete in a ‘Big Year'. Watch over on the site today: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/list...

'The acorns underfoot have fallen in layers so thick it feels like walking on shingle.' Croft, Coast and Hill: Untamed and gorgeous, autumn arrives on @annieworsley.bsky.social and Kirsteen Bell’s respective crofts — bringing with it ravens, comets & ghosts www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/crof...

We have three copies of Dan Rubinstein's 'Water Borne' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @ecwpress.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!

#NowPlaying: ‘Melted Moon’ by Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick — perfect Samhain listening 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/now-... Taken from the upcoming record 'Tragic Magic', out on InFiné in January.

Peckerwood: The spiders are ripening and the foxes are cussing in Mark Mattock‘s “feral’d” NW2 garden www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/peck...

On display at The Barbican’s Curve gallery until January, Lucy Raven’s Murderers Bar is a film on the undamming of the Klamath River in Northern California, following the immense release of water as it carves its own path for the first time in over 100 years www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/lucy...

Edited by @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social, ‘Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror’ — our October Book of the Month — is an act of radical collective creation, writes Rowe Irvin www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/bog-...

The full film from @robsaintjohn.bsky.social and Kate O’Farrell’s Are You Lost? project — exploring the diverse voices, histories and ecologies around the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire — is now available to watch online www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/are-...

Well goodness, this is a lovely surprise! From wonderful reviews in @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social @mstaronline.bsky.social @countrylifemag.bsky.social & a Book of the Year @thespectator1828.bsky.social the reach of #GhostsoftheFarm is a broad one! #Farming #Farmingwomen

The full film from @robsaintjohn.bsky.social and Kate O’Farrell’s Are You Lost? project — exploring the diverse voices, histories and ecologies around the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire — is now available to watch online www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/are-...

Edited by @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social, ‘Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror’ — our October Book of the Month — is an act of radical collective creation, writes Rowe Irvin www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/bog-...

On display at The Barbican’s Curve gallery until January, Lucy Raven’s Murderers Bar is a film on the undamming of the Klamath River in Northern California, following the immense release of water as it carves its own path for the first time in over 100 years www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/lucy...

In our latest author interview, going out to Steady subscribers this afternoon, Tallulah speaks to @folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social about the current popularity of folklore, far-right invocation of soil, land and indigeneity, and the "real monsters that roam this green and pleasant land".

Peckerwood: The spiders are ripening and the foxes are cussing in Mark Mattock‘s “feral’d” NW2 garden www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/peck...

We have 3 copies of @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & Luke Adam Hawker’s beautiful new book 'The Night Creatures: Firefly' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for entry details!

‘I learnt the dark is never really dark, not outside. I learnt that the night is full of colour and sound. I learnt the Northern Lights.’ In an extract from ‘The Company of Owls’, @pollyrowena.bsky.social learns to love the night www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/the-...

Thinking Like a Mountain: The Orobie Biennial allows us to explore the porous boundaries between self and other, human and nature, industry and sustainability, writes @annamfleming.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/thin... Artwork by Agnese Galiotto, photographed by Nicola Gnesi Studio

‘It is a magical feeling […] knowing that the beavers are living just beyond the treeline.’ @matthewmshaw.bsky.social rejoices in the reintroduction of beavers to Cornwall's Lost Gardens of Heligan www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/beav... Photo: Andy Wilson

#NowPlaying ‘Contemplating The Moon’ by Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington 🌔 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/now-... Taken from the duo’s score to 'Rebuilding' — the new feature film written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman — out 14th November on @fatpossumrecords.bsky.social

October Book of the Month is 'Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror'. In an extract from the introduction, editor Hollie Starling (@folkhorrormagpie.bsky.social) considers the disruptive potential of stories to upend fortresses of power www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/bog-...

We have 3 vinyl copies of new Sydney Minsky Sargeant album 'Lunga' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, courtesy of @dominorecordco.bsky.social. Make sure you're signed up to our mailing list for entry details!

Finally somebody gets it! Thank you @nicolawriting.bsky.social‬ and @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social from all of us. #militarism #SalisburyPlain #colonialcountryside #ruraldiversity #righttoroam #greenwash #armsindustry #endlesswar etc etc

This was a first for me, in terms of writing a book review. I'm so glad it happened to be of this wonderful piece of literature by David Gee. It'll stay with me a long while. Check it out at @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social

‘What stayed with me […] was a desire to carry the book’s deeds and transformations with me, to green myself and my community.’ David Gee’s imagined history of the Green Man is a gift of defiance, of joy, of anger and of hope, writes @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/wild...

‘I would argue that D’Angelo didn’t make records, he constructed churches.’ Caught by the Reaper: Jeb Loy Nichols shares some thoughts on the death of R&B singer D'Angelo, who died yesterday aged 51 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/dang...

‘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 @nicolawriting.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/engl...

Kirsteen McNish introduces 'Flow' — a zine made in collaboration with @dartmoorcollective.org, contemplating the movement and flux which has taken place on the moor over hundreds of thousands of years www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/flow... Image: Jaiyana Chelikha

'What will the songs at the end of the world sound like? Perhaps we’re singing them? Perhaps we won’t hear them.' Hayden Thorpe pens a letter to Orford Ness — the mistake-riddled landscape which birthed his latest record www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/orfo... Image: Gordon Joly

A beautiful piece. It had been my kingfisher summer. Suddenly, after 12 summers, they allowed me to see – and hear – them every day above the black river canal. Like in a dream.

‘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...

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...

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...

'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...

'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...

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!

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).

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...