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Featured Poem: Clair de lune by Paul Verlaine
Today is the 165th Birthday of French poet Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896). Deeply influenced as a teenager by reading Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du…
Convention for Reading Groups
Books on the Broad are organising a one-day event entitled: "The Readers' Voice: A Meeting for Readers and Readers Groups".…
Poetry Season on the BBC
The BBC are launching Poetry Season: an entire season of content dedicated to literature, and to poetry in particular, starting in Spring…
Featured Poem: Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Selected by Alison Walters With the new found spring weather and daffodils bursting forth, we can enjoy Gerard Manley Hopkins' …
Nellibob’s Friday Night
Our competent and highly-skilled Nellibob technical team are having a few difficulties with YouTube technology. Work will be carried out…
Hargeysa International Book Fair (HIBF)
Readers, your help is needed! We are looking for suggestions to help us compile a list of around 50 books…
Featured Poem: The Spring by Thomas Carew
Thomas Carew (1594-1640) had a reputation as a wayward character which lasted for all of his adult life, though it…
Thinkers About Community
Can anyone help with this? I want to read a book of thinking about 'community'. I mean, by those inverted…
Featured Poem: The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
To celebrate International Women's Day (yesterday, 8th March) we have a picked a poem by Anne Bradstreet, probably one of…
The David Rattray Memorial Fiction Prize
CALLING ALL FICTION WRITERS BETWEEN 18 AND 24 YEARS OLD. The David Rattray memorial fiction prize is an annual writing…
Featured poem: ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats
Keats twice in one month!? Yes, and what a way to brighten up February. John Keats died on 23rd February…
Featured Poem: Tell all the Truth by Emily Dickinson
The full truth should be told cautiously especially if it is hurtful or shocking and it should be told in…
