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Featured Poem: Morning Mudslinging
Marion Leibl has chosen 'Morning Mudslinging' by Erich Fried as our featured poem for today. She writes: 'Sometimes I meet…

Reader Editor Philip Davis on BBC Radio 3
Tomorrow (Friday October 5) Philip Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, is going to be talking with Ian Macmillan about…

Sean O’Brien Wins the Forward Poetry Prize
Sean O'Brien has become the first person to win the Forward Poetry Prize three times, picking up the £10,000 poobah…

Recommended Reads: Stuart … A Life backwards
This recommendation is posted by Sara Pendergast, writer, painter, working in Washington State. Stuart ... A Life Backwards: Alexander Masters’…

Featured Poem: Hamatreya
So it's my turn to recommend a poem and I choose 'Hamatreya' by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson is better known…

Author Readings and Workshops Near Liverpool
Manchester-based publisher Comma Press is promoting a new book of short stories entitled Elsewhere: Stories From Small Town Europe and…

Featured Poem: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
ReaderOnline contributor Siobhan Chapman has recently returned to teaching after a year's sabbatical to write a book. Judging by her…

Featured Poem: Ode To Autumn
Thursday October 4 is National Poetry Day here in the UK and to mark the occasion we are going to…

James Ellroy on Dashiell Hammett
On Saturday The Guardian newspaper printed a superb piece by James Ellroy on crime writer and sometime Pinkerton detective Dashiell…

It’s Art, Stupid! Andrew Motion at the Sefton Festival of Literature
The Sefton Festival of Literature opened on Wednesday September 19 and closes with a performance by poet Jackie Kay at…

Recommended Reads: Einstein, His Life and Universe
By Siobhan Chapman. Walter Isaacson. Einstein, His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Albert Einstein was an engaging and…

Neglected Books
One of the areas where The Reader magazine excels is in looking again at writing that would otherwise get lost…