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Writing Course with Penelope Shuttle: ‘Word and Self’
Adrienne Rich posed the question - ' Where does poetry come from?' and offered this answer: … how we glimpse…
Asda’s Big Read Campaign: Helping to reclassify the classics
There are some things in life that you can rely on, events and objects that stand as steadfast institutions, time…
New Beginnings Conference and Supper – SOLD OUT
We can now confirm that the New Beginnings Conference and Friday Night Supper (Friday 5th March at Blackburne House, Liverpool) have sold…
Watch Again: Why Reading Matters
If you missed Why Reading Matters, which was broadcast on BBC Four last year, and feaures The Reader Organisation’s pioneering…
Foundations of Bibliotherapy: Research Project
Grace Farrington is a project researcher at The Reader Organisation, she writes: Poetry, "a kind of medicine divinely bestowed upon…
National Storytelling Week 2010
Just a quick note to say that this week (30th Jan - 6th Feb) is National Storytelling Week. Follow in…
Poets to hold ‘literary Live Aid’
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is to join 21 other leading poets for a Poetry Live for Haiti. Duffy, who…
Estelle Morris To Chair School Libraries Commission
A commission to examine the future of school library provision in England is being launched by the Museums, Libraries and…
We’re going Down Under!
The Read to Lead team will be heading ‘Down Under’ to Melbourne, Australia, at the end of March to deliver…
University of Liverpool Chamber Choir Concert
Romantic Music for a Valentine's Weekend 13th February, 7.3opm The University of Liverpool Chamber Choir, who graced the stage with…
Mohan Rana and Bernard O’Donoghue at the Whitechapel Gallery
On Thursday 4th February the Indian poet, Mohan Rana, will read his poems in Hindi alongside newly commissioned translations read…
The World’s Youngest Library Member?
He may not be able to read yet but eight hour old Charlie Harris could be entered into the Guinness…
