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By the River Denise Kiernan and posters to photographsWhat is a river?, asks Amy Jane Beer, in the opening essay of this collection, which blends nature writing and memoir from some of the most exciting writers of today. Twelve writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives, demarcating cities as well as moulding our creative consciousness. Tessa Hadley revisits Rumer Goddens The River; Jo Hamya pays homage to Virginia Woolf; Michael Malay goes nightfishing for eels by