The Reader 27 has landed!

In Issue 27, The Reader tries for happiness and we couldn't be more happy that it has arrived so we can share its delights with our subscribers! The collection of stories, poetry, essays and recommendations in this issue focus on moments of joy and simple pleasure, moments that we should try to capture and remember how important they are to our lives.

This is also the first issue of The Reader with Phil Davis as editor, taking over the helm of the magazine from his wife and colleague Jane Davis. It is an exciting time in The Reader office, lots of changes are afoot - a new design for the magazine, extensions of The Reader's outreach projects - yet the magazine's heart and soul remains concerned with the human content to be found in literature. That will not change. You can read Phil's editorial here.

Highlights in this issue include poetry by Omar Sabbagh, a young new poet we're thrilled about publishing, reading his poems makes you aware of the solidity and lightness of life. There is also poetry by Tom Paulin, R. S. Thomas, Martin Malone, Sean Elliott and Andrew Shields. Bernard Beatty writes an animated essay on 'Ecstatic Moments' and Josie Billington focuses on the late love of the Barrett Brownings. David Constantine and Jo Canon provide us with some great short stories in which the chance of happiness in glitteringly present and real but is often transient. You can read more about this very full issue on The Reader's website.

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Posted by Jen Tomkins