Pike: Luke Jennings
23 July 2010 // Pike: Luke Jennings
Originally published in the London ES magazine on the 14th of February, 1997. There is something both melancholy and fascinating about a fish in a glass case. What, I always wonder when I see some blackened old pike hanging in a pub, were the circumstances of its capture? Who, a hundred winters ago, saw this [...]
Lines Made By Walking
22 July 2010 // Lines Made by Walking
by Jude Rogers 17. Central Lines I remember London. Hello, you. It’s me. This old thing. You were the city I used to be scared of, throwing me from A to B via Z like a spluttering centrifuge. Then you nuzzled my neck, took me in, showed me the folds of your skin. And now, [...]
Nick’s Pics
The Thing about Water. Words & picture by Nick Small. Looking at a scene like this, the thinker, the artist, the photographer, the writer in me is consumed by reflection: reflection of light, of big sky, of the beauty we are privileged to indulge ourselves in and, thanks to the tranquillity the scene evokes, reflection [...]
This Summer, I Will Mostly Be Reading…
20 July 2010 // Summer Reading 2010
Robert MacFarlane This summer, I will mostly be reading or re-reading Alfred Watkins’s The Old Straight Track Club (landscape lunacy); David Jones’s In Parenthesis (the greatest war-text ever written, alongside The Iliad); Graham Bowley’s No Way Down (an account of the 2008 K2 disaster); Stephen Banfield’s Sensibility And English Song (a magnificent study of the [...]
Pint by the River – Purity: Pure Ubu
by Roger Clapham. Earlier this year, my friend Matt was enthusiastically telling me about Purity’s Pure Ubu (pronounced “oo-boo”). “Bloody great” he claimed. After some years of dedicated imbibing Matt knows his way round a drink or two, so I kept an eye out for it and soon hit paydirt when I discovered it on [...]
This Summer, I Will Mostly Be Reading…
19 July 2010 // Summer Reading 2010
Robin Turner I’m a sucker for encyclopedic music books, especially ones that point to dusty shelves of untapped vinyl you were only ever half aware of. Rob Young’s Electric Eden has been just that for me this summer. Imagine England’s Dreaming relocated to a pastoral Albion and you’re pointed in the right direction. Subtitled ‘Unearthing [...]
Pond Dippings.
illustration by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Taken from ‘The Fisherman’s Bedside Book’ by BB. The Fishermen. by Chris Yates. A brand new piece of writing, exclusive to Caught by the River. The woods and fields promised escape and adventure, but the pond had a different appeal. From a distance it often looked dull and lifeless; close to [...]
More Eliot
18 July 2010 // Port Eliot festival
Just been sent these pics by Mathew Clayton who is down at Port Eliot already. This is the view across the estuary from the top of the quarry. The space below is where our stage will be next week: and this is Matt Sewell’s bird hide:
Matt Sewell at Port Eliot
18 July 2010 // Matt's Bird of the Week //Port Eliot festival //The Bird Effect
hi jeff ive got a host of new ‘charmed from the trees’ wooden birds up on my site (www.mattsewell.co.uk). the pic attached is new addition kingfisher, he will be the prize for the drawing comp at Port Eliot. matt
This Summer, I Will Mostly Be Reading..
17 July 2010 // Summer Reading 2010
Ken Worpole When Robert Macfarlane got the New York Review of Books to re-issue J.A.Baker’s ‘forgotten’ classic, The Peregrine in 2005, readers wanted to know who the mysterious author was – purportedly a small-town librarian in Essex – and in what hallucinatory state of mind he had been in when he wrote about his obsession [...]
