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Featured Poem: The Send-off
I spent most of Sunday riding on steam trains at the East Lancs Railway. There is something very appealing about…
Art Garfunkel: Book Blogger Since 1968
The New Yorker has a brief story about Art Garfunkel (What, you need a Wikipedia link to work out who…
Links We Liked for 24 January, 2008
It's been a difficult week for me so far, trying to finish off a book and start teaching again, with…
Featured Poem: The Milestone by the Rabbit Burrow
We are celebrating National Rabbit Week here at The Reader and in honour of the occasion our featured poem this…
Where Have All The Bunnies Gone?
Angela Macmillan ponders the under-representation of rabbits in grown-up literature. Eight thirty this morning found me at the vet's with…
Journal to Stella
Back when this blog was new we featured Pepys's diary, a blog using Pepys's diary entries as its daily posts.…
Sean O’Brien Wins the T.S. Eliot Prize
Last night Sean O'Brien was announced the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. O'Brien, who is Professor of Creative Writing…
Recommended Reads: Leading the Dance, by Sarah Salway
by Caroline Smailes I’ve been a fan of Sarah Salway for a while now and so was thrilled when the…
Philip Pullman on Milton
Kirsty at Other Stories, who also writes for the OUP blog, is getting all excited about a piece by Philip…
Recommended Reads: George MacDonald
Mary Weston manages the Merseycare Reads Project, teaches in Continuing Education, works as a counsellor, runs open house for asylum…
Dedalus Press Petition
Small but highly regarded publisher Dedalus Books learned in December that the Arts Council would not be renewing its £25,000…
Recommended Reads: Spies, by Michael Frayn
Kate McDonnell is a project worker at Get Into Reading. Spies by Michael Frayn I read Spies twice last year:…
