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Rebecca Goss at the first Liverpool Literary Festival event Monday 3rd November
The first event of the Liverpool Literary Festival is on this Monday 3rd November at the Bluecoat at 12noon. Rebecca…
Featured Poem: William Shakespeare: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
Shakespeare's famous sonnet of realistic expectations is both an expression of earthly knowledge and a declaration of irrational, inexplicable feeling.…
Book at Breakfast 2008
As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival (31st October - 2nd November), which sees the likes of Tony…
Recommended Reads: A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carre
A sobering if not worrying read. Gripping in the usual le Carré manner with believable ‘nasties’ doing their establishment jobs,…
Featured Poem: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘They flee from me …’
Sir Thomas Wyatt is not much read now outside of the seminar room, but the musicality of this poem deserves…
Recommended Reads: Jeffrey Wainwright, Clarity or Death
Jeffrey Wainwright, Clarity or Death! Carcanet, £9.95, ISBN 978 1 85754 9126 In a curious way, poetry that is…
Featured Poem: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ by John Keats
Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' needs little in the way of introduction and I'm posting it today simply because it…
Featured Poem: Eliza and the Bear by Eleanor Rees
Poet Eleanor Rees will be performing at the Bluecoat's Chapter and Verse literature festival and is currently exploring writing poems…
Liverpool Poets at Liverpool Literature Festival
There will be a big homecoming of Liverpool poets during the Liverpool Literature Festival from 3-9 November, with writers coming…
Recommended Reads: Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Gould’s Book of Fish: a novel in twelve fish, by Richard Flanagan (London: Atlantic Books, 2002), pp. 404. Chris Pak…
Featured Poem: From SIXTY, by William Gilson
Poet William Gilson introduces his poem Sixty. I'm an American living permanently in England. My wife Alison is English. Our…
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…
