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Contract Killing as a Not So Fine Art
One of the aspects of contract writing that is most difficult to handle is the lack of editing time. Contract…
The Reading Cure–Five Day Residential Course
Sunday 21st - Friday 26th September 2008, Burton Manor, Cheshire The Reader Organisation would like to announce its first five…
Featured Poem: Røros, by Julie-ann Rowell
Julie-ann Rowell is a poet whose first pamphlet collection, Convergence, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her new collection, Letters…
Make it Tall
Back in the early 1990s I was teaching at a newly-minted and deeply underfunded university in the Northeast. I remember…
Mace and Jones Short Story Competition
Leading Merseyside law firm, Mace & Jones, is launching a short story competition to coincide with Liverpool’s year as European Capital of…
The Reader Abroad Part 2: Equipment
In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, reads from Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian.
Featured Poem: ‘At Burscough, Lancashire’
Helen Tookey is a Liverpool-based writer and editor. Her collection of poetry, Telling the Fractures, a collaboration with photographer Alan…
The Reader Abroad Part 1: The Summer Residence
In the first of series of short films for summer, Jane and Phil Davis welcome us to The Reader's summer…
Recommended Reads: The Poetry of Edward Thomas
Sue Garner-Jones did her post-graduate research at the University of Liverpool where she now teaches English in the Continuing Education…
Featured Poem: Amy Lowell, ‘Carrefour’
This week's poem is selected by poet Rebecca Goss. The word 'carrefour' means crossroads, a heady, allegorical title, but we have…
Review: Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
Chris Pak was born and grew up in Hong Kong and is currently completing an MA in Science Fiction Studies…
Links We Liked for 18 June, 2008
Some links from way back when. I apologise for these being so old, but I've been too busy reading philosopher…
