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#NowPlaying: ‘Here Are The Tulips’ by Hollow Hand 🌷 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/now-...
Taken from the upcoming album 'Wish Road South', out on Loose Music / Soundy in September.
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The latest in the series of letters with Lochaber crofter Kirsteen Bell for @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social's Coast, Croft & Hill: letters from the NW Highlands.
In April & May we talked about nightjars, spinning, cuckoos and wildflowers.
Happy reading 🤗
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Annie Worsley
'I was poor in every practical respect of the word, but rich in the colours of sea glass, shells and hedgerow flowers, prosperous in the saline drift of early morning fog...'
Read an extract from Natasha Carthew's 'Rough Edges', our June Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/roug...
Newly published by Cornwall's Ancient Magic Books, 'Deep Field' presents a large collection of artist Tom Sewell's photographs for the first time www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/deep...
'I'm hoping they might reach the ears of people who are less able to explore the outside world as I am privileged to do.'
If a Tree Falls: Rick Blything introduces the field recording project which sees him uploading a wealth of nature sounds to YouTube www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/if-a...
'Your name is nowhere here, / yet the nettles flinch as if brushed. / Sap runs bitter-sweet in the cut ash, / ambering the air.'
Persistence of Ache / The Thaw Begins: a poem by Ruby Butler www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/pers...
#NowPlaying: ‘Growing Roots’ by Modern Biology & Zekarias Musele Thompson.
Taken from the forthcoming 'Plants Can Dance', curated by Brian d’Souza (Auntie Flo), bringing together a global community of artists to explore the possibilities of biosonification www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/now-...
With their celebration of ordinary people’s lives, Mackenzie Crook’s ‘Small Prophets’ and @littletollerbooks.bsky.social’s recent reissue of L. P. Jacks’ ‘Mad Shepherds’ are a match made in heaven, writes Sue Brooks www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/mad-...
The Lammermuirs are one of Scotland’s most treasured rural landscapes. This morning, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social wrote to us with news of plans to build an industrial data centre on them.
Help 66 locals defeat a $2 billion project by signing the petition: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/save...
In the company of @paulreesauthor.bsky.social's’ ‘Raised on Radio – Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola’, Travis Elborough dips into the history of Adult Orientated Rock — the sound of a confident, car-driving North America www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/rais...
