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Featured Poem: ‘Aeroplanes’, by Rebecca Goss
Poetry is changing and the ways we encounter it are changing too. Friend of The Reader Organisation Rebecca Goss is…
Heart of Darkness: men, women, and modernism
Yesterday I was contacted by writer Maggie Goren with a piece she had written in response to Raymond Tallis's story…
Recommended Reads: Dragonfire by William S. Cohen
Continuing our series of recommendations from inmates of Walton Prison, here is Martin's take on a thriller written by the…
Featured Poem: Jackie Kay’s ‘Darling’
Jackie Kay will be appearing alongside Matt Simpson at the Sefton Celebrates Writing Literary Festival on Saturday 27 September at…
Recommended Reads: The Guv’nor Tapes by Lenny Mclean
Continuing our series of reading from the inmates of Walton prison, Anthony recommends this tale of a hard man with…
FACT Bookgroup: The Book of the Film
Ella Jolly writes to let us know about the book group she runs at FACT in Liverpool and invites anyone…
Recommended Reads: Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
Last week Wendy Kay introduced the reading group from Walton prison. Here is the first in a series of book…
Roaming Readers: Ella Jolly takes poetry on the road
Ella Jolly, reader in residence at Bibby Line Group, is on the move. It is possible to draw many literary…
Featured Poem: The Beautiful Lie, by Sheenagh Pugh
Katie Clark, a Reader Organisation outreach worker recommends 'The Beautiful Lie' by Sheenagh Pugh. I recently read this poem with…
The Cosmos and the Whole Shebang
Jane Davis on the beginning and end of the cosmos, on Science Fiction, and Olaf Stapledon. Phil and I discussed…
Get Into Reading Goes to Prison
Coming up over the next week or two we're going to be featuring book recommendations from the Get Into Reading…
Get Into Reading at the START Centre
Last Friday I went along to the START centre in Salford to observe my first Get Into Reading session. I…
