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Featured Poem: These Are The Clouds by W. B. Yeats
Last Wednesday (28th January 2009) was the seventieth anniversary of the death of W. B. Yeats. Living between the nineteenth…
Coaster’s Song
From the nineteenth century, right into the second half of the twentieth, hundreds ships carried coal from North East England…
Books We Should, or Must, Read
New Year is oviously a time for resolutions and for many of us - it is to read more. On…
Featured Poem: from Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was a prominent figure of the Renaissance period, gaining fame not only from his poetry but…
Liverpool Poetry Cafe @ the Bluecoat
Liverpool Poetry Café has now moved from Costa in Bold Street to The Hub in the Bluecoat, School Lane. On…
Great Expectations for the Theatre
A cold, snowy day in Manchester and twelve Get Into Reading members made the trip to The Library Theatre to see…
Featured Poem: Remember by Christina Rossetti
In his book, Christina Rossetti in Context, author Antony H. Harrison discusses the poet's work and the "dominant tensions upon…
Recommended Read: The Witch of Portobello by Paul Coehlo
Reviewed by Alison Walters The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho is a mystical novel surrounding the life of Athena/Sherine/"The…
A Poetry Mystery
Readers, we have another request for all you literary detectives out there. T, a member of a Bibby Line Group…
Birmingham Exhibition – Jack Kerouac: Back On the Road
by Pip James, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham Celebrated as a novel which gave expression to a free-spirited generation,…
I Will Arise and Go Now
A Get Into Reading project worker describes her experience of reading in a Care Home, Winter 2008. Arriving at the care…
Christmas Reading: Part 7
Happy Christmas! Ella Jolly, Reader-in-Residence, Bibby Line Group Persuasion by Jane Austen. Although I love Pride and Prejudice for Elizabeth…
