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Sponsor Our Reader Runners!
After a gruelling 5k around Liverpool's city centre in September, who would have thought TRO staff would be so eager…

Featured Poem: My Grandmother’s Love Letters by Hart Crane
It would seem that we live in a world full of contradictions. You might say “Surely you haven’t just realised…

The Penny Readings and the Ha’penny Readings – How to get tickets
Tickets for both the Penny Readings and the Ha'penny Readings will be available from 9am Monday 22nd November. Tickets and…

The Penny Readings… and the Ha’penny Readings!
Yes, TRO's favourite festive event is just around the corner! The Penny Readings Sunday 5th December, 6.30pm-8pm St George's Hall…

Featured Poem: In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
Going into the heart of Liverpool city centre on any randomly selected Saturday afternoon, you will come across not just…

Booktrust Teenage Book of the Year
by Emily Lezzeri, Get Into Reading South West “Congratulations, you’ve won”, the e-mail said. Unaware that I had entered a…

The T S Eliot Prize: Reading Group Scheme
The Poetry Book Society has just launched a new reading group scheme based on the shortlist for the 2010 T…

Poem Podcasts from the Poetry Translation Centre
The Poetry Translation Centre has launched a new series of weekly Poem Podcasts on iTunes. Starting this week, every Monday…

The Denmark Diary
Casi Dylan, TRO Training Manager, is currently out in Aarhus, Denmark, overseeing the development of a new training course which…

Featured Poem: Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion
For anyone who needs a little readjustment in life – and I suspect that would be most of us –…

The Chris Salmon Poetry Extravaganza
The launch night of the Chris Salmon Poetry Extravaganza took place on National Poetry Day, 7th October 2010, and the…

Featured Poem: The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling
It’s happened, two months in advance. Last week I saw the year’s first Christmas tree erected, weighed with baubles and…