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'A symbol in the sky – a moon, star or cloud formation – acts as an anchor ...They are illusions of balance and peace formed through temporary stillings of a world made increasingly strange.' @robsaintjohn.bsky.social considers Richard J. Butler’s micro-topographies https://buff.ly/3EMNlNW

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'I wonder at the tender slope of the fox’s legs, its toes and nails, its ankles, the tiny bones beneath the skin...' Jeb's latest Jukebox selection — forgotten, like most gentle, beautiful things — reminds him that not all humans are monsters https://buff.ly/4hMxVbj

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'Canyons quickly make wanderers of us all.' Ron Nelson walks the canyons of Southern Utah — a world of interlocking fingers and sheltered alcoves, double-kinked river bends, heavy woodland, and crumbling sandy dunes https://buff.ly/41rnvIe

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'Red kites follow him to the river. When the wind changes direction, the smell from the sewage works [...] mixes with a heavy scent of brewing malt and tractor exhaust fumes...' BOTM: Read an extract from Adelle Stripe's 'Base Notes' — an evocation of the author's life in scent buff.ly/3D34hPI

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My brand new animated guide about our three breeding woodpeckers is out now. Have a read of this nice article by @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social

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New in the shop from lovely Cornish publisher Ancient Magic Books: 'West', an invitation to step into the spirited local surf scene in West Cornwall, and 'Bangers', collecting photos of the United Downs Racetrack https://buff.ly/4b77yu7

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As the sound of woodpecker drumming fills canopies up and down the country, @willrose.bsky.social releases the latest of his fantastic What Bird is That? videos, this time teaching you to distinguish between Green, Great Spotted and Lesser Spotted woodpeckers https://buff.ly/3EUhuLd

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[email protected] has just released the final instalment in his Retinette Series. An experiment in self-publishing, The Retinette Series spans 12 rolls of film, shot on a 1950s Kodak Retinette camera over 12 months, resulting in 12 zines, and a total of 168 photographs buff.ly/42Wcgc8

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Through a new exhibition at Tate St Ives, @lallymacbeth.bsky.social enters the magic-infused world of the artist, writer and occultist Ithell Colquhoun — where plant, human, mineral and animal coalesce https://buff.ly/3QjGhuJ

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An oblique homage to The KLF’s iconic 1990 album Chill Out, 'STILL OUT: Ambient Road Trip' is an audio-visual collaboration between music producers Will Cookson and Tom Haverly and filmmaker Rufus Exton. See it at Stroud Film Festival on Friday 7th March. More info/trailer: https://buff.ly/4b4dSST

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'Gulls, Annie, poured into the skies between our hills, flickering clouds of shredded paper, bright as plastic, or grey as ashes from a fire against the snow still brindling the uppermost slopes.' Winter winds blow gulls & otters to Kirsteen Bell and Annie Worsley’s highland crofts buff.ly/4gM3YGV

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'Gulls, Annie, poured into the skies between our hills, flickering clouds of shredded paper, bright as plastic, or grey as ashes from a fire against the snow still brindling the uppermost slopes.' Winter winds blow gulls & otters to Kirsteen Bell and Annie Worsley’s highland crofts buff.ly/4gM3YGV

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An oblique homage to The KLF’s iconic 1990 album Chill Out, 'STILL OUT: Ambient Road Trip' is an audio-visual collaboration between music producers Will Cookson and Tom Haverly and filmmaker Rufus Exton. See it at Stroud Film Festival on Friday 7th March. More info/trailer: https://buff.ly/4b4dSST

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Through a new exhibition at Tate St Ives, @lallymacbeth.bsky.social enters the magic-infused world of the artist, writer and occultist Ithell Colquhoun — where plant, human, mineral and animal coalesce https://buff.ly/3QjGhuJ

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[email protected] has just released the final instalment in his Retinette Series. An experiment in self-publishing, The Retinette Series spans 12 rolls of film, shot on a 1950s Kodak Retinette camera over 12 months, resulting in 12 zines, and a total of 168 photographs buff.ly/42Wcgc8

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'Meteorites make us aware of our status not as inhabitants of, say, Great Britain, but of Earth. Creatures that live among stars' Helen Gordon, author of #OnMeteorites, for Caught by the River www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/02/mete... @helenlpgordon.bsky.social @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social

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Rectory Lane Cemetery: a poem by Nicola Healey https://buff.ly/4hwfB6a

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'From the stone’s perspective my lifetime was a flicker; less than a flicker ... I stretched out my hand, conscious that this would be the oldest object I would ever touch.' 'The Meteorites' author @helenlpgordon.bsky.social on her fascination with ancient, extra-terrestrial rocks: buff.ly/4hO5IAw

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Join our friends Rough Trade Books and @realmagicbooks.bsky.social in Wendover, Buckinghamshire for a series of day-long writing workshops with counter-cultural panache https://buff.ly/3CEOu9K

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'From the stone’s perspective my lifetime was a flicker; less than a flicker ... I stretched out my hand, conscious that this would be the oldest object I would ever touch.' 'The Meteorites' author @helenlpgordon.bsky.social on her fascination with ancient, extra-terrestrial rocks: buff.ly/4hO5IAw

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These are now back in stock for dispatch late next week. 100% of Bandcamp's profit share today goes to MusiCares, benefitting musicians affected by the recent fires in Southern California 🥕🍅🥬🌽🪱

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'I allow myself to briefly wander the terrain – a 9000-year-old roundhouse, thousands of flint awls, grindstones, a goddess, the dragon, a well I will never find – and stop myself, sick with time.' Wild Signs: Coco Lone Neal ponders symbols left on the ground and carved into trees buff.ly/3Ena17b

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'Cloth, then, can be imbued with the allegories that communities have for centuries invested in the land.' Martin Holman steps into Siobhan McLaughlin’s non-traditional landscape paintings https://buff.ly/4gtZFjw

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This lovely zine is proving difficult to keep in stock. We’ve put in a BIG order and will replenish stock tomorrow (Friday) at 8am GMT for dispatch next week. 100% of Bandcamp’s profit share tomorrow goes to MusiCares, supporting musicians affected by the recent Southern California wildfires.

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It’s back! The good folks of Black Lodge Press have printed a new run of 'A Radical Garden' — a lush risograph zine which collects posters and thoughts on the radical act of gardening and growing 🌱 In the shop now (£10) and never around for long buff.ly/3CDZ2G0

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'I allow myself to briefly wander the terrain – a 9000-year-old roundhouse, thousands of flint awls, grindstones, a goddess, the dragon, a well I will never find – and stop myself, sick with time.' Wild Signs: Coco Lone Neal ponders symbols left on the ground and carved into trees buff.ly/3Ena17b

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Carl Bigmore's 'A Curiosity of Uncertainty' is a photobook and album inspired by, and made in, the Torridon Hills of the Scottish Highlands https://buff.ly/4gpwSfV

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The gaps in our knowledge about eels are fertile places for art and ideas to grow, writes Peter Rogers, as he releases a new eel-inspired EP https://buff.ly/40YbnhM

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The gaps in our knowledge about eels are fertile places for art and ideas to grow, writes Peter Rogers, as he releases a new eel-inspired EP https://buff.ly/40YbnhM

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Caught by the Reaper: Travis Elborough remembers Geoff Nicholson — writer, walker, gourmand, theremin player and friend — who died earlier this month, aged 71 https://buff.ly/3QjdQxf

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'Every day for a month I went out in a makeshift hearse, my Toyota Yaris...and spread, sprinkled or scattered, from a yoghurt pot or chicken tikka takeaway tray, some dusty-ashy quintessence of John Dee.' Tim Dee on scattering his dad far and wide — and the radio made along the way buff.ly/4hgpdl7

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Carl Bigmore's 'A Curiosity of Uncertainty' is a photobook and album inspired by, and made in, the Torridon Hills of the Scottish Highlands https://buff.ly/4gpwSfV

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'Every day for a month I went out in a makeshift hearse, my Toyota Yaris...and spread, sprinkled or scattered, from a yoghurt pot or chicken tikka takeaway tray, some dusty-ashy quintessence of John Dee.' Tim Dee on scattering his dad far and wide — and the radio made along the way buff.ly/4hgpdl7

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‘… the oaks, once part of ancient hedgerows — wavy lines of hawthorn, oak and dog rose — have been set adrift again, floating islands on a furrowed sea.’ So happy ‘Even the Trees are Lonely’ is up on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social today amidst all the glorious #naturewriting 🔗 tinyurl.com/22pddyb8

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Caught by the Reaper: Travis Elborough remembers Geoff Nicholson — writer, walker, gourmand, theremin player and friend — who died earlier this month, aged 71 https://buff.ly/3QjdQxf

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'When I am not in the garden I think of it, like I’m lovesick, wondering how the light is falling, jealous that I’m missing all of its moments of variety and beauty.' @ysella.bsky.social is nurtured by her garden — a wild island adrift on a sea of turned fields https://buff.ly/3WxYYhH

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'There have been lighthouses here, at the furthest reach of the compass point, for centuries.' Continuing his quest to document the UK’s lighthouses, Ben Langworthy reaches the most easterly point in mainland Britain https://buff.ly/4geAZuU

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‘We're here out of a desire to experience abundance […] It's a funny feeling, to have a taste of what you would like from the future, living with its lack in the meantime.’ Looking back on Apple Day at Wakelyns farm, Tallulah Brennan reflects on growing trees and building bridges buff.ly/4hb8sbh

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'The snowdrops and the primroses will come up through the decaying fronds, their delicate bulbs protected by a bracken blanket over the winter months.' In a new monthly column, Pip Squire explores the myth, magic and allure of the oft-overlooked fern 🌿 https://buff.ly/3CHbLaS

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Would definitely be doing a @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social guest playlist.

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'The snowdrops and the primroses will come up through the decaying fronds, their delicate bulbs protected by a bracken blanket over the winter months.' In a new monthly column, Pip Squire explores the myth, magic and allure of the oft-overlooked fern 🌿 https://buff.ly/3CHbLaS

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‘We're here out of a desire to experience abundance […] It's a funny feeling, to have a taste of what you would like from the future, living with its lack in the meantime.’ Looking back on Apple Day at Wakelyns farm, Tallulah Brennan reflects on growing trees and building bridges buff.ly/4hb8sbh

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Just opened at Somerset House, SOIL: The World at Our Feet is a landmark exhibition unearthing the wonder of soil, its unbreakable bond to all life, and the vital role it plays in our planet’s future https://buff.ly/3PQW5oL

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'There have been lighthouses here, at the furthest reach of the compass point, for centuries.' Continuing his quest to document the UK’s lighthouses, Ben Langworthy reaches the most easterly point in mainland Britain https://buff.ly/4geAZuU

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'When I am not in the garden I think of it, like I’m lovesick, wondering how the light is falling, jealous that I’m missing all of its moments of variety and beauty.' @ysella.bsky.social is nurtured by her garden — a wild island adrift on a sea of turned fields https://buff.ly/3WxYYhH

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"‘Come closer,’ said Cam, and so I edged toward the riverbank and sat watching the patterns of sunlight shimmering and wriggling on the surface." In an extract from her book ‘Dark Skies’ (@saraband-books.bsky.social), Anna Levin is romanced by the River Cam https://buff.ly/4jxCVSb

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#NowPlaying: 'Riverside' by Oracle Sisters. Take a serene 5-minute mind-walk to the water's edge...https://buff.ly/40HMlmK

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Told myself I wouldn’t but - cliche that I am - I wrote about stepping on a skateboard again after 20 years away…

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This weekend, join the annual Big Garden Birdwatch to help the @rspb.bsky.social build a picture of how garden birds are faring 🪺 https://buff.ly/3E3V89U

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