The Caught by the River Nature Book Reader
30 April 2010 // Books //nature book reader
We have talked about this for ages and next week, at last, it becomes a reality. I guess it’s time to explain just what it is. For the last few months we have been asking folk what are their three favourite nature books and then getting them to write a couple of hundred words on [...]
The Poems of Norman MacCaig
‘The Poems of Norman MacCaig’ edited by Ewen McCaig, Polygon/Birlinn. Reviewed by Andrew Greig. To anyone who feels most alive in the mountains, on a loch, following up a Highland river rod in hand, or just lying on a heathery bank watching a buzzard circle through clouds, Norman MacCaig is the poet and this is [...]
Roger Eagle
To mark the eleventh anniversary of the passing of the mighty Roger Eagle (May 4th), this weeks newsletter comes with a compilation of killer rhythm & blues tracks that Roger put together for friends. He called the compilation ‘Pink Lollipop’ after the song by Phil Upchurch – that’s Phil looking good on the cover – [...]
Words On Wheels
This July, a Caught By The River led art project will take place in East London as part of the 2010 Create Festival. In the first of a series of regular blogs in the build up to Roam, Robin Turner explains why he’s taking to the road to tell the people about nature. Undoubtedly there’s [...]
The Joy of Music
My definition of public service broadcasting. LISTEN HERE and smile.
Lines Made by Walking
27 April 2010 // Lines Made by Walking
by Jude Rogers. 6. Time Lines Back to London, and spring keeps bedding in. This is the time of year when my birthday arrives too, popping out of the ground like a ceremonial flower, reminding me gently of how time moves on. These days, I’m too old for treasure hunts, party hats, jelly and blancmange, [...]
Caught by the Reaper – Alan Sillitoe
photo: Murdo Macleod. Alan Sillitoe, 4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010. Nick Small speaks on behalf of us all at Caught by the River: I can’t claim to have been an avid reader of Alan Sillitoe in later life. In fact, apart from Raw Material, I don’t think I’ve read anything since my mid-teens. [...]
The Old Man and the Boy
a letter from Tim Balcombe. Dear Jeff Just wanted to drop you a letter to say that how much I enjoy the Caught by The River website despite not being a fisherman myself. My father in law gave me a book recently that I thought you might be interested in. It is called ‘The Old [...]
Letter From A Prize Winner
Alan Tyler won our competition for the tickets to the Nicola Moorby lecture at Somerset House. He wrote to say thanks: I don’t win things. Runner up in a fishing club winter league, 1971, and an unwanted LP in a folk-club raffle sum up my competitive success, so I was surprised when I received an [...]
Pint by the River – Bath Ales: Gem
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
