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Featured Poem: ‘Aeroplanes’, by Rebecca Goss
Poetry is changing and the ways we encounter it are changing too. Friend of The Reader Organisation Rebecca Goss is…
Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival
Welcome to the first blog post for the Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival. The programme has been confirmed and we…
FACT Bookgroup: The Book of the Film
Ella Jolly writes to let us know about the book group she runs at FACT in Liverpool and invites anyone…
Literature Festivals: Spoilt for Choice in the North West
Cheltenham Literature Festival. Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival. Edinburgh International Book Festival. These are the 'big' names in British literary festivals. They…
Roaming Readers: Ella Jolly takes poetry on the road
Ella Jolly, reader in residence at Bibby Line Group, is on the move. It is possible to draw many literary…
Get Into Reading at the START Centre
Last Friday I went along to the START centre in Salford to observe my first Get Into Reading session. I…
English Courses in Liverpool from October
Last week I was at the Continuing Education open day at Liverpool University where I've been planning and organising the…
Reader 31 ‘Relative Time’ Is Here
Issue 31 of The Reader magazine, entitled 'Relative Time' is available now from our shop, where you can also buy back…
Jane Davis: In Praise of Liverpool ’08
Is '08 happening in Liverpool? Yes and yes, yes, yes. Taking the train home from London on a Friday night…
Front Row: La Machine
Tune in to BBC Radio 4 this evening between 7-7.45pm to hear Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine on Front Row talking…
Wirral’s Shakespearean Stars
Since 2002, Jane Davis, Director of The Reader Organisation, has had many Get Into Reading group members say, "Wouldn't it…
Age Banding: a bad idea or just badly handled?
A couple of weeks ago Sam Shipman wrote here about the age banding row in children's book publishing and the…
