Just one week to go until @hannahpeel.bsky.social’s 'Underland' soundtrack crawls out from beneath and hits the physical realm www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/10/hann...

#NowPlaying: ‘Real Magic’ by Star Moles www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/10/now-...

Taken from the album 'Highway to Hell' — released earlier this year on Dead Oceans, but only just reaching us via pigeon post. Very nice. Thank you, pigeons.

'Edges, ruins, wasteland, perhaps they call to us, like the changing seasons, to remember endings are beginnings, are transformations.'

Coco Lone Neal walks the ruins of the Sheffield Ski Village www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/10/autu...

'Bogs are messy and wild, places the human mind has difficulty understanding. Can we comprehend a place suspended between life and death? Do we want to?'

ICMYI: read this fascinating extract from @queenofpeat.bsky.social's #Boglands via @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social.

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'I knew that I wanted to earn my living using my hands.'

In an extract from ‘Green Shoes: Forty years of a radical women’s craft collective’ Alison Hastie recalls how she first pursued a career in shoemaking in the 1970s www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/10/gree...

#NowPlaying: ‘River Days’ by Natalie Wildgoose. A balm for the ears www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/10/now-...

Taken from the lovely album 'Rural Tapes', out now via @state51.bsky.social

'Can we comprehend a place suspended between life and death? Do we want to?'

Dead nor alive, safe nor dangerous, beautiful nor dreadful, bogs are thresholds that refuse categorisation, writes @queenofpeat.bsky.social, in an extract from her book 'Boglands' www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/bogl...

Croft, Coast and Hill: Rainbows and tangled growth thread their way through uncertain weather on @annieworsley.bsky.social and Kirsteen Bell’s respective crofts www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/crof...

Heavenly Emissaries: In this month’s BOTM author interview, @elizabethsulis.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about whale worship, gods wrapped in bearskins, and how our rituals and stories must adapt to modern life www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/eliz...

Author photo: Michael Vince Kim

Connecting Threads have just announced the second edition of the Tweed River Festival, an annual creative celebration of the River Tweed. This year’s festival takes place in and around Melrose in the Scottish Borders on October 30 & 31 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/twee...

September’s Book of the Month is elizabethsulis.bsky.xn--socials-d36c ‘Book of Beasts: Reclaiming Animal Wisdom’. Read an extract, on the infinite lives of the Salmon of Knowledge: www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/eliz...

'Sceapig Island’ is a documentary series by Jess Bootes, exploring the community and landscape of the Isle of Sheppey www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/scea...

A dispatch from @bursche.bsky.social, our man on the ground at this year's @wainwrightprize.bsky.social ceremony www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/wain...

Our congratulations to all the winners and nominees at this year's awards.

This [Ai]n’t the Way: AI-generated articles about nature are fundamentally at odds with what we’re doing here, writes a very tired @divaeh.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/diva...

#NowPlaying: ‘Fairweather Friend’ by Sam Burton.

The title track (and second single we’re digging in a big way) from the upcoming album, out 30th October on @capturedtracks.bsky.social www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/now-...

Could you drink from your local river or stream? In an extract from his book ‘Unwilded’ Alastair Humphreys heads to his nearest river armed with a basic chemistry set, a mug and a thirst for a drink of water www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/alas...

'Its trunk is silver and solid — ten summers, springs, autumns and winters of growth — the shape of him inside us.'

@ysella.bsky.social revisits the moments — and personal ruptures — of a former life between the rivers Tavy and Tamar www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/a-re...

(cw: pregnancy loss)

'Her voice rivers between the loud and the quiet.'

August’s Book of the Month was @alycia.bsky.social’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’ (@canongate.co.uk) — a book that is its own body of water, writes Aileen Angsutorn Lees www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/shor...

As @benmcelroy.bsky.social’s year-long audio project on Nottingham allotments continues, he has just announced the release of some limited-run recycled cassettes in compostable packaging www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/allo...

Visited the small but perfectly formed Benton End exhibition at the Garden Museum in London on Saturday (thanks to @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social for the tip off). It's on until 20 Sept and is highly recommended - more info at www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/ben...