Literature
Dickens Returns to Liverpool….
Now that the Penny Readings is over, there's no need to wait another 12 months to get your next Dickens…
Featured Poem: A Wasted Illness by Thomas Hardy
Winter has well and truly arrived once more, and along with it comes certain inevitabilities. The bitterly cold temperatures (the…
Books of the Year
The Guardian has published a list of Books of the Year, with Seamus Heaney's collection Human Chain and Edmund de…
A Little, Aloud event in Nottingham with Joanna Trollope
Lodham Festivals ltd presents... An evening of readings from A Little, Aloud with the book's editor Angela Macmillan, Jane Davis,…
Featured Poem: No Worst, There Is None by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Like everything in life, poetry comes in all shapes and sizes, forms and styles, dealing with almost every subject imaginable.…
A special guest star for the Penny Readings
Today, a very special guest has arrived in town for the Penny Readings: …
David Constantine wins BBC National Short Story Award
CONGRATULATIONS, DAVID! We're delighted to learn this morning that dear Reader friend, and regular contributor to The Reader magazine, David…
Featured Poem: Delight In Disorder by Robert Herrick
Being a perfectionist is hard work. I came to this conclusion some time ago, yet it has made not any…
Penny Readings Tickets – SOLD OUT
Tickets for the Penny Readings have now sold out! If you've missed out, don't worry - or, if you've been lucky…
Featured Poem: To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker
I have, in previous posts, made reference to my interest in/all consuming passion/immensely geeky love for the English language. It…
Penny Readings & Ha’penny Readings – Tickets available now!
Tickets for both the Penny and Ha'penny Readings are available from 9am this morning, and can be collected from either…
BBC National Short Story Award 2010
Congratulations to a dear friend of The Reader's, David Constantine, who on Friday was nominated for the BBC National Short…
