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Featured Poem: The Stare’s Nest By My Window by W.B. Yeats
There’s been a distinct political flavour to proceedings in the literary world in the past week. There was the small…
A Japanese Adventure… Part 4
From Leila Green, on her Japanese travels: It's impossible to walk the streets of any bustling city in Japan, let…
A Japanese Adventure – Part 3
"... if her nose wasn't so small." Komura's comment is at odds with my experience of the modern Japanese aesthetic,…
A Japanese Adventure…Part 2
"...the Japanese point to their noses with their index finger." Like many non-Brits the Japanese are amused by our concept…
A Japanese Adventure… Part 1
Leila Green, along with her best friend Nikki, spent three months backpacking through Japan, New Zealand and Australia, leaving in…
Event: Literature and Armed Conflict in Central America
University of Liverpool Post-Civil War Central American Literature Event 17th April, 14.00 to 16.00, in the Garden Room at the…
International Literacy Day
Today is International Literacy Day, upon which, each year, UNESCO reminds the international community of the status of literacy and…
Reminder: Somali Arts and Culture Festival
Kayd, along with its partner Redsea-online, are proud to announce the inaugural Somali Arts and Culture Festival to be held…
War and Peace: An Anthology of Somali Literature
War and Peace: an Anthology of Somali Literature is a unique and rare collection of classic Somali poems and stories…
STOP THE TRAFFIK
STOP THE TRAFFIK is a global activist movement campaigning to end the forcing of innocent people into slavery, sweat shops,…
Hargeysa International Book Fair (HIBF)
Readers, your help is needed! We are looking for suggestions to help us compile a list of around 50 books…
Japanese Diary: The Devil Makes Work
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. There are definitely some bonuses to having my…
