Allotment Watch: August
31 August 2011 // Allotment Watch
by Nina Walsh August always seems to be a month of continuous birthday celebrations, my own included and what better way to spend it than camping out at the plot with a few friends and a stack of freshly grown produce to chuck on the barbecue. I would like to say that I caught the [...]
Caught by the River at Rough Trade East
It gives us great pleasure to announce that, later this month, we will be launching a Caught by the River bookshop within the world famous Rough Trade East record shop. The stock list is being put together as I write so expect to find a selection of Caught by the River classics, hard to find [...]
First Catch
From, Country Fair magazine, July 1955
Words on Water at The Feast on the Bridge
28 August 2011 // Events //On Water
Caught by the River is proud to announce an afternoon of Words On Water as part of this years’ Thames Festival. The Feast on the Bridge takes place on Southwark Bridge on Saturday, 10th September. Enlisting a group of writers and music lovers, we’ll be putting together a piscine afternoon at the Caught by the [...]
Fire Season
Radio 4 Book of the Week – Fire Season by Philip Connors. We picked a copy of this up on import a few months ago and enjoyed it immensely. Good to see it as ‘Book of the Week.’ There’s still time to listen to the extracts on the BBC iplayer Hardback copies are on sale [...]
The Hawk
by Jim Farrar. As a kid I loved birds. Specifically birds of prey. Killers all. I can’t explain why. I just did. I could identify other birds. Their eggs. Their nests. But they didn’t have the same hold over my young mind. How could they? Sparrow v Sparrow Hawk. Sparrows are alright. It’s nothing personal [...]
Caught by the Reaper – Jerry Leiber
Jerry Leiber (l), Mike Stoller (r) Jerry Leiber, 1933 – 2011 Bob Stanley pays tribute: The Abbey Road medley is often cited as the perfect career closer: “And in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take” sums up the warmth, generosity and unbroken circle of the Beatles’ story. Mind [...]
Caught by the Reaper: Nickolas Ashford, 1942 – 2011
A tribute by Chris Roberts. Long, long ago, before the words “darling” and “baby” became passé and infra dig, they were swoon-inducingly effective, within and without pop music. They were giddying, disarmingly romantic, and rarely more so than in the works of Nickolas Ashford, who died this week, and his wife Valerie Simpson. Among the [...]
A Talent for Sloth
An extract from Fire Season by Philip Connors. The landscape where I work, in far southwest New Mexico, is one of the most fire-prone areas in America. I look out over a stretch of country with nearly a million acres of roadless wilderness, where an annual upsurge of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico combines [...]
Vanishing Points
23 August 2011 // Vanishing Points
by Jude Rogers. Places never stay the same, however much we want them to. When a familiar street corner is given a fresh lick of paint, we feel it in our bones. When an old home, no longer ours, opens its windows to different worlds, it’s hard not to feel something disappear. Beyond these personal [...]
