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Incredible array of contributors including Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Irvine Welsh, Jon Savage, Laura Barton, Bill Drummond, Chris Yates and Roger Deakin. Taps into growing fascinating people have with the countryside and what is means to be British. Produced in colloboration with uber cool record label Heavenly and their angling blog caughtbytheriver.net. Nature writing is the new rock and roll.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD ...JEFF BARRETT, ROBIN TURNER, ANDREW WALSH THE LANGUAGE OF RIVERS ...SUE CLIFFORD & ANGELA KING THE RIVER ALNESS ...JOHN BERRY THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WATER ...FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE THE RIVER CARY ...GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY THE RIVER COQUET ...CHRIS WATSON LAZY CRAY-SY DAYS OF SUMMER ...KEVIN PEARCE 13 ...LAURA BARTON JACK FROST ...ROGER DEAKIN THE BLACK RIVER ...IRVINE WELSH PALM-READING THE HELFORD ...PETER KIRBY TO FISH THE BURNS ...EDWYN COLLINS & GRACE MAXWELL NOT CAUGHT BY THE RIVER ...JOHN NIVEN THE KENNET & AVON CANAL ...JOHN MOORE BABYLON ...JOHN ANDREWS VALLEY OF THE DEAD CARS ...BOB STANLEY A RAINBOW IN FLIGHT ...JUDE ROGERS THE MERSEY: LIVERPOOL ...MATTHEW DE ABAITUA THE MERSEY: MANCHESTER ...JEMMA KENNEDY FISHING WITH JAKUB ...JEFF BARRETT RIVER MAN ...HANNAH HAMILTON ENDLESS SUMMER ...ROBIN TURNER THE OUSE BURN ...KATHRYN WILLIAMS THE PENKILN BURN ...BILL DRUMMOND ACRYLIC AFTERNOONS ...JARVIS COCKER BITTER LIMEN ...DEXTER PETLEY SEVERN BY SEVERN ...KARL HYDE RIVER AT THE END OF AUTUMN ...CHRIS YATES CORACLE MAKER ...BERNARD THOMAS WAY ACROSS THE RIVER ...JOHN SAVAGE THE POETRY OF SMALL AMBITIONS ...PAUL KINGSNORTH TICKLING FISH ...LORD PEREGRINE ST GERMANS THE LOWER TRENT ...JW MARTIN THE RIVER WANDLE ...ROY WILKINSON THE DIRT WATERFALL ...BEN MYERS UNDER WATER ...MATHEW CLAYTON SOURCED IN THE WEST ...KURT JAKCSON DART ...ALICE OSWALD

About the Author

Jeff Barrett, Robin Turner and Andrew Walsh are the team behind the angling and music blog Caughtbytheriver.net. Their day job is running the independent record label Heavenly Recordings. The book is illustrated throughout with the woodblocks of the artist and writer Robert Gibbings. One time owner of the Golden Cockerel Press and author of numerous books about rivers such as Sweet Thames Runs Softy Gibbings work perfectly completes the mood of the book.