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
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...
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...
What will your field look like twenty-five years from now? My field? What is my field, I wonder. My favourite field is the one below the barn at the old ranch in California. I hope in twenty-five years it looks just the way it does now, all wild oats and chicory and foxtail and voles and jackrabbits and quail.
Is science fiction dead or dying? Some wise words from Ursula K Le Guin to the TLS a decade ago:
My latest column is about tiny owls
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Colonisers hate libraries, they hate the dissemination and democratisation of information, they hate us knowing anything. Does anyone else get the feeling that this is in part a push to force those of us resisting genAI to use it b/c there is nothing else available? *dusts off Encarta CD-ROMS*
‘There are so many words for cutting benefit payments to the needy and vulnerable, as once there were so many for words for the cutting of a field.'
Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...
'There’s a joy that comes after submitting to what’s bigger than you. It took me a while to find it.'
@jennashworth.bsky.social speaks to Karen Lloyd about anti-heroics, tethered beetles, and walking with Wainwright and Wordsworth breathing down her neck www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...
We've decided it's high time we demystified the process of submitting to the site 🖋️ 🐙 Find all the info about how and what to submit here! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/06/subm...
Image from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, New York,1885-1896, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Final call for the @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Weekend, where I will be chatting to Rowe Irvin tomorrow about her hauntingly beautiful debut novel Life Cycle of a Moth 🐛
found this incredibly moving
Latest Dog Walk Report is about land, language, liberty, and how the fight for land access rights should be international and universal
shared some excerpts from my 2024 diary, incl inside ivy, friend’s fox-stolen trousers, and hunting the aurora borealis with a pilled-up stranger, on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
This essay by Ana Kinsella in Vittles last year is very good imo www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/nine-ways-...
Irish food/drink culture is trendy in chi-chi dining establishments at the moment, thanks to places like Café Cecilia. It's also in the public consciousness more because of e.g. Shit London Guinness, plus Guinness marketing is as effective as ever (e.g. myths of 2-part pour and "the perfect pint")
Cliff, a scruffy black patterdale terrier, photographed on a pink background wearing a pink collar, by Kevin McGonnell
Shadows & Reflections: Benjamin Myers pays tribute to Cliff — the ultimate writer’s dog — 'though I have often wondered if perhaps I am, in fact, merely the dog’s writer.' caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...
staghorn sumac showing autumnal colour change in yellow and bright orange
drooping fungus and autumn leaves on a rotten log
Rosehips, haws and crab apple jam: site editor @divaeh.bsky.social and her long, thin dog walk (and eat) through the blazes of late autumn www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/dog-...