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Featured Poem: Thomas Hood’s ‘The Haunted House’
We're late for Halloween, but this poem by Thomas Hood has a wonderful mysterious feel about it. I remember a…
Event: Food For Thought
What do you get from books that nothing else can give you? Come along to The Foresight Centre between 1-2.30pm…
Featured Poem: William Shakespeare: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
Shakespeare's famous sonnet of realistic expectations is both an expression of earthly knowledge and a declaration of irrational, inexplicable feeling.…
Recommended Reads: A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carre
A sobering if not worrying read. Gripping in the usual le Carré manner with believable ‘nasties’ doing their establishment jobs,…
Featured Poem: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘They flee from me …’
Sir Thomas Wyatt is not much read now outside of the seminar room, but the musicality of this poem deserves…
Festival Thoughts
Tim, a volunteer with Get Into Reading who was also involved with the recent Shakespeare in the Park performance, shares…
Featured Poem: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ by John Keats
Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' needs little in the way of introduction and I'm posting it today simply because it…
What is the Case
As part of its Capital of Culture celebrations, the Mersey Care NHS Trust is hosting an exhibition of the work…
Recommended Reads: Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Gould’s Book of Fish: a novel in twelve fish, by Richard Flanagan (London: Atlantic Books, 2002), pp. 404. Chris Pak…
Featured Poem: From SIXTY, by William Gilson
Poet William Gilson introduces his poem Sixty. I'm an American living permanently in England. My wife Alison is English. Our…
Rebirths and Revamps
We've been working hard behind the scenes on a much-needed redesign of the Reader Organisation's website, which is why the…
Liverpool Medical Institution Reading and Health Event
Free tickets are still available for today's Reading and Health event at the Liverpool Medical Institution organised by The Reader…
