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English Courses in Liverpool from October
Last week I was at the Continuing Education open day at Liverpool University where I've been planning and organising the…
Reader 31 ‘Relative Time’ Is Here
Issue 31 of The Reader magazine, entitled 'Relative Time' is available now from our shop, where you can also buy back…
Featured Poem: Candour, by Rebecca Goss
This week in our Featured Poem series we welcome back Rebecca Goss, who recommended Amy Lowell's 'Carrefour' for us back…
The Reader Abroad: Wind
In which Chris Routledge, Online Editor of The Reader Organisation, has a problem with wind whilst reading Housman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt-1TxvNtXM
Review: Major Benjy, by Guy Fraser-Sampson
Major Benjy, by Guy Fraser-Sampson Troubador Publishing Limited, 2008 Review by Siobhan Chapman E. F. Benson (1867-1940) published scores of novels…
Age Banding: a bad idea or just badly handled?
A couple of weeks ago Sam Shipman wrote here about the age banding row in children's book publishing and the…
Featured Poem: ‘The world is too much with us’
This famous poem, written in 1807, needs little in the way of introduction. Wordsworth's anguish over the lost connection between…
The Distant Sound of Children
Online Editor and Blog Man Chris Routledge reads from Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Harsh But Fair: Merlin Mann on Deciding Which Books to Read
It's a problem most readers have, but it's a problem magnified for anyone involved in any kind of publishing venture:…
Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival
The Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival takes place from 3 to 9 November 2008 and has a provisional line-up that…
Post-Holiday Catch-up Link Love
For the last two weeks I've been swanning around Western Scotland, staying well away from anything to do with…
Featured Poem: ‘Sympathy’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem ‘Sympathy', first published in 1899, inspired the title to Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the…
