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Stories from the City
Stories from the City is a collection of new writing about Liverpool: past, present and future. As Liverpool comes to…
My Name is Lisa
The Liverpool Hope Literary Festival Autumn 2008
Running in conjunction with the Cornerstone Arts Festival, the English Department of Liverpool Hope University presents its own international literary…
Event Review: Liverpool Readers’ Day
The Readers' Day, presented by The Reader Organisation and Liverpool Libraries, centred around three open audience events - a conversation with Frank…
Penguin’s Leather-Bound Classics: Boutique Books
The arrival of e-book readers such as the Kindle and the Sony Reader has triggered a lot of discussion in…
Shipping Lines: Modern Poetry in Translation
By Alison Walters One of the sessions at Shipping Lines that fascinated me the most was the session by David…
Featured Poem ‘Piping down the valleys wild’ by William Blake
William Blake's complementary collections of poems Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are brilliantly ambiguous. This introduction is on the face…
The Golden Notebook Project
The Institute for the Future of the Book is running an 'experiment in close reading' in which seven women are…
Recommended Reads: Inside the Whale by Jennie Roonie
By Ian Olsen As part of the Chapter & Verse literature festival at the Bluecoat, I attended a session with first-time novelist…
Book at Breakfast 2008: Clare Allan
As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, The Reader Organisation hosted two free and fabulous 'Book at Breakfast'…
Launching a Reading Revolution (and a Website)
Last week, as some readers will have noticed, we quietly launched the new website for The Reader Organisation on a…
Congratulations to President Elect Obama
On behalf of The Reader Organisation, novelist and Get Into Reading project worker, Mary Weston sends her congratulations to President Elect Obama…
