Hand Drawn Maps of London Rivers
29 June 2010 // Miscellany //Rivers Book
John Richardson’s lino-cuts from ‘Words on Water’ join the hall of fame over at the Londonist website.
Still on the Charts
29 January 2010 // Rivers Book
Afternoon chaps, Caught by the River was in Sunday’s Independent! It was on their ‘Critical List’ pages – which is the ‘what’s hot in the Arts this week’ section. Each week they get their favourite independent book retailers to recommend their favourite books in a Top Ten Hitlist. Caught by the River was in Sunday’s [...]
Points Of Interest
11 December 2009 // Caught By... //Miscellany //Rivers Book
Those sharp eyed amongst you may have noticed that Caught By The River has moved with the times and joined both Twitter and Facebook. To follow us or become our friend, just click on the icons at the top right-hand side of the screen or the links embedded above. We’re going to try to make [...]
Dusty 7s
30 July 2009 // On Water //Rivers Book
Really lovely email from the folks over at the lovely Dusty 7s blog. They’re the first people who’ve got in touch and tried to tackle their fear of nature with a copy of our book. They followed Bob Stanley’s Lea navigation, though probably got there a little after the ominous blue fence went up. If [...]
New Podcast on iTunes
“The richness of our long cultural relationship with rivers is evident in the names we know them by and the clues which linger in our place names”. Sue Clifford reading ‘The Language of Rivers‘, with production by Chris Watson is now available to download from our iTunes page (here).
Podcasts on iTunes
from John Richardson‘s workbook for ‘A Collection of Words on Water’. We’ve had a bunch of unique podcasts made to compliment the book and they are now available to download (for free) over at iTunes. Click here to go to the CBTR page where you can hear Bill Drummond, Chris Watson, Hannah Hamilton, Gavin Pretor-Pinney [...]
“Beautiful In It’s Simplicity”
“The new compendium, Caught by the River: A Collection of Words on Water, knows much about river-wonder… It is beautiful in its simplicity: it doesn’t have a hectoring truth, worthy plan or manifesto. It is, instead, a mix of reminiscences, travelogues and meditations covering fishing, swimming, observing and ice-skating. But its particular contributors also unify [...]
Caught By The Quietus
Really lovely plug for the book on brilliant music and arts site The Quietus – they’ve also got extracts from the Bill Drummond piece on the Penkiln Burn. Ace photo of Bill by Tracey Moberly who runs our favourite pub in London town.
Pictures from the launch party..
here’s a few pics that Wendy took at Monday night’s book launch. There’s a lot more so we’ll archive them all in the ‘rivers book’ section of the site over the weekend. Hannah Hamilton, reading from ‘River Man Jon Berry, reading from ‘The River Alness’ Bill Drummond, reading from ‘The Penkiln Burn’
This Morning’s Today
18 June 2009 // Caught By... //Rivers Book
Caught By The River was proud to be featured on the Today Programme on Radio 4 this morning. Click here to listen again on iPlayer – we’re about 2 hours 48 minutes into the show.
Caught by the River