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Edge Hill Short Story Competition Update
Back in June Kate McDonnell wrote about The Reader Organisation's involvement in the Edge Hill Short Story Competition. Here's Clare…
Links We Liked, 23 July, 2008: White Whale Edition
Meg Guroff wrote to let me know about her labour of love, powermobydick.com, an online, annotated edition of Herman Melville's…
Open Air Shakespeare Comes To Birkenhead Park
A community performance in Birkenhead Park of A Winter's Tale directed by Neil Caple is being produced by The Reader…
Grevel Lindop’s ‘Hen Felin’
Helen Tookey is a poet, writer, and editor whose book Telling the Fractures was published by Axis projects in May 2008.…
Featured Poem: Hen Felin, by Grevel Lindop
Helen Tookey, whose poem 'At Burscough, Lancashire' from her book Telling the Fractures we featured a few weeks ago, writes to…
The Reader Abroad Part 4: The Idiot
In which Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation, reads Dostoevsky.
Big Brother House
Winston turned round abruptly. He had set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to…
Critics vs. Bloggers
Jay Rayner in a feature in the Observer yesterday picked up on the media debate du jour: critics or bloggers?…
Costa Poetry Cafe, Liverpool July 24th, 2008
Reader Online contributor and poet Rebecca Goss writes with a reminder that the next Costa Poetry Café evening will be at 7.30pm…
Featured Poem: Sonnet–To Science, by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the strangest and most compelling writers of the Romantic period in the United States.…
The Reader Abroad Part 3: Pronunciation
In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, comes over all unnecessary with a rose bush.
Classics on Richard and Judy Poll
Back in June we launched a campaign to get a 'classic' novel on the Richard and Judy Book Club TV…
