Caught by the River is an arts/nature/culture clash, posting daily at caughtbytheriver.net. It was conceived in 2007 as an online meeting place for pursuits of a distinctly non-digital variety: walking, fishing, looking, thinking. From birdsong and beer to adventure and poetry; life’s small pleasures, in all their many flavours.

The CBTR crew have been running a stage at The Good Life Experience since the very beginning, and return this year (to Camp Good Life) with another triumphant line-up.

Campers big and small can start the day listening to Melissa Harrison read from her children’s books By Ash, Oak and Thorn (recently published by Chicken House) and sequel By Rowan and Yew (due out in October).

Later on, Caught by the River stalwart Will Burns will read from his debut novel The Paper Lantern, and answer questions put to him by master of ceremonies John Andrews. Nicola Chester will discuss her upcoming book On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging with Melissa Harrison, and Baxter Dury will read from his memoir Chaise Longue; an intimate disclosure of teenage life from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll.

Afterwards comes a special solo set from Boy Azooga main man Davey Newington.

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Nicola Chester

Nicola Chester’s clarion call to nature conservation was first recognised when she won the BBC Wildlife Magazine’s Nature Writer of the Year Award in 2003.

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Melissa Harrison

Melissa Harrison writes books about nature for adults and children. She contributes a monthly Nature Notebook to The Times, and these columns were recently collected together as The Stubborn Light of Things. Her most recent novel for adults, All Among the Barley, was the UK winner of the European Union Prize for Literature.

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Baxter Dury

The oat milk latte poet laureate of London's Ladbroke Grove, Baxter Dury has spent the last 15 years uniquely chronicling the inner workings of his (and everyone's) human condition over six critically acclaimed albums. His latest, The Night Chancers, was released in March 2020.

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Boy Azooga (Solo set)

Davey Newington, the driving force behind Boy Azooga, took up the drums at the age of six. He’s a young man with much musical heritage: one of his grandads was a jazzer who played drums for the Royal Marines, and his violinist dad and clarinet-playing mum both played, and met, in the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales. Davey himself also enjoyed orchestral engagement, playing triangle for the National Youth Orchestra Of Wales.

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Will Burns

Will Burns was born in London and lives in Buckinghamshire. He likes gardening, sports and birds and is Poet-In-Residence at Caught By The River.

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Caught by the River form a collective whole that represents an outlook on a world full of endless discovery, innovation, poetry…but mainly just doing things for the sheer joy-giving hell of it.

Camp Good Life (Autumn)

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Caught by the River form a collective whole that represents an outlook on a world full of endless discovery, innovation, poetry…but mainly just doing things for the sheer joy-giving hell of it.

Good Sustainable Floral Ideas.

Blundstone x The Good Life Society.