Free Range: Rocking Stone - 'One thing I hope for my boys, in this overstimulating world, is the ability to find space inside their own minds. I notice the way their imaginations are loosened while running across the moor and climbing on the stones.' Fuelled by Jelly Babies, Amy Liptrot and her children take to the moors in search of stone.
The Five Ages of Man - 'I’d lose myself...hidden by rosebay willowherb and thistles as tall as my head, racing dragonflies, gorging on blackberries and shooting at imaginary adversaries with my 10p cap gun.' Iqbal Hussain looks back over 50 years of his life in proximity to greenery.
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Twelve Moons - Newly published by Harper Collins, Caro Giles‘s Twelve Moons is a story of how one person — perhaps particularly a mother — holds within their hands the power to change the world, writes Kerri ní Dochartaigh.
Now Playing - ‘Common Land’ by James Holden. The video, by Innerstrings, was filmed on Wormwood Scrubs — one of the largest areas of common land in London, which is currently being partially redeveloped to accommodate the HS2 railway.
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New Brighton - 'Behind the zinging orange plastic...the tiredness, the wear, the lack of the New in New Brighton. Growing up in 1980s Merseyside, decay was too often part of the everyday.' Kenn Taylor reflects on New Brighton in all its colour, sugar and decay. With photos by Kenn Taylor and Denise Courcoux.
Croup - 'look: you can see me there on the Divan bed, / blinking in the dark / wondering about cowboy songs / and where I’ll get a match ticket Sunday' A poem by Nick Power.
Competition Results - Here are the results of our latest newsletter competition…
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Newly published in paperback by Faber, Richard King's Brittle with Relics is a vital history of Wales undergoing some of the country's most seismic and traumatic events: the disasters of Aberfan and Tryweryn; the rise of the Welsh language movement; the Miners' Strike and its aftermath; and the narrow vote in favour of partial devolution.
Drawing upon the voices of its inhabitants — including Neil Kinnock, Rowan Williams, Leanne Wood, Gruff Rhys, Michael Sheen, Nicky Wire, Sian James, language activists, members of former mining communities and many more — this is a vivid portrait of a nation determined to survive, while maintaining the hope that Wales will one day thrive on its own terms.
We have three copies of the new paperback edition to give away, in celebration of its release. To be in with the chance of winning a copy, just answer the following question correctly:
Who described the book as a 'fascinating, deeply important, episodic and discursive oral history of Wales' when they reviewed it for Caught by the River in March 2022?
Answers to competitions@caughtbytheriver.net Good luck!
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Reading:
Listening:
Happy Trails by Andrew Lauder: Music from Andrew Lauder's charmed life and high times in the record business. Happy Trails, the book, is published by White Rabbit in May . Pre-order a copy HERE
Watching:
Natasha Lyonne stars as murder-solving human lie detector Charlie in the excellent Poker Face (Sky/Now TV)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll. |
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A recent office tidy-up has unearthed a few copies of various issues of our Antidote to Indifference fanzine, some of them now quite hard to come by. £3 a pop.
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for daily posts and additional visual content…
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Sunset from Whitstable beach towards the Old Neptune and Isle of Sheppey.
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Until 19th February - a retrospective of influential British photographer Chris Killip at The Photographer's Gallery, London. Details here
27th February - Sarah Acton in conversation with Dom Moxom, speaking about ‘Seining Along Chesil’, at the Dorset Museum. FREE event in the Community Room Space. Details here
Until 5th March - ‘Lucian Freud : Plant Portraits’, at the Garden Museum, presenting the first exhibition to delve into Lucian Freud’s paintings of plants and gardens. Details here
27th April - ‘Real Dorset: An illustrated talk’ by Jon Woolcott. At this launch event the author of the newly published Real Dorset, will lead you on a whistle-stop tour of some of the more surprising connections and coincidences across Dorset's landscape, rural and urban - at The Grosvenor Arms, Shaftesbury. Details here
Until 18th May - ‘British Culture Archive - A Celebration of Life in the North during the 1970s-80s’, a photography exhibition at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre. Details here
Until 11th June - ‘Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain’, an exhibition exploring the rich tapestry of folk customs found in the UK today, at Compton Verney, Warwickshire. Details here
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The Ever-Expanding Spoken Word & Nature Disco
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Andrew Weatherall, 1963-2020. First published 18th February 2020
Robin Turner pays tribute to a dearly departed Friend of the River
Photo at Port Eliot, summer 2017, by Wendy Barrett.
‘Andrew’s death feels like a theft, because we’ve been robbed of a figure who represented and shaped the counter culture. Not the ’60s hippie one, or the punk one, but our counter culture — the place where all roads meet and it makes total sense for a book reading to happen on the same stage as an acid house party. As such, he’s irreplaceable — the future version of him will come from a different generation, a different scene and will come with different reference points that we’ll endeavour to follow but will struggle to keep up with. But that’s just the nature of things isn’t it? God we are going to miss him. But as the great man said, fail we may, sail we must.’
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Thanks for reading,
Andrew, Diva, Jeff and Robin.
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