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Featured Poem: The Night Is Darkening Round Me by Emily Bronte
This week's Featured Poem has been chosen by Anna Fleming, Young People's Project Worker for Get Into Reading Liverpool, who has…

Readers of the World: Nigeria
It's time once more for our fortnightly trip to foreign climes, to take a deeper look into what's going on with…

Stories Before Bedtime: Twisted Love
Following on from the first incredibly successful Hallowe'en themed event in October, Stories Before Bedtime returns in time for Valentine's…

Upcoming Open Read To Lead Courses
A New Year is well underway - and a new programme of Read To Lead Core Training courses is lined…

Recommended Reads: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
This week’s Recommended Read comes from Claire Ellis, our Research Coordinator, who has been exploring the deep-seated fears of the…

Blogging About Books: Bookshelf Porn
Readers of a sensitive disposition, don't be alarmed by the title: this is a beautiful blog dedicated to showing off…

Liverpool Schools Evaluation: Relating reading to life
Part of our philosophy at The Reader Organisation is that books and literature should be closely affiliated with each of…

Arts and Wellbeing: Recent Developments, Future Challenges
Director of The Reader Organisation Jane Davis will be appearing at the forthcoming Royal Society of Public Health one-day conference,…

John Burnside wins 2012 TS Eliot prize
Scottish poet John Burnside has won what has been dubbed the "most controversial TS Eliot poetry prize in years", after…

Featured Poem: The Fireside by G.F. Bradby
This week's Featured Poem comes from Older People's Project Manager Katie Clark (who is currently on maternity leave – thanks…

Phil Davis: Dickens and I
Professor Phil Davis, editor of The Reader Magazine, is the first contributor to the Dickens and I... series on the…

Anobii: A new reading experience
2011 was another big year for social networking - it seems like now the whole world and its granny is…