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Featured Poem: The Panther by Rilke
In the autumn of 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke began working as secretary to the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Rilke was commissioned to write…
Penguin’s Leather-Bound Classics: Boutique Books
The arrival of e-book readers such as the Kindle and the Sony Reader has triggered a lot of discussion in…
Featured Poem ‘Piping down the valleys wild’ by William Blake
William Blake's complementary collections of poems Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are brilliantly ambiguous. This introduction is on the face…
Liverpool Literary Festival “A big success!”
Renée Hemmings and Sophie Povey reflect--well, maybe enthuse is a better word--on Shipping Lines, the first Liverpool Literary Festival. Seven…
The Golden Notebook Project
The Institute for the Future of the Book is running an 'experiment in close reading' in which seven women are…
Recommended Reads: Inside the Whale by Jennie Roonie
By Ian Olsen As part of the Chapter & Verse literature festival at the Bluecoat, I attended a session with first-time novelist…
Featured Poem: Great Things by Thomas Hardy
In the aftermath of Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival (reviews and stories will be coming up during the week), The Reader Organisation…
Book at Breakfast 2008: Clare Allan
As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, The Reader Organisation hosted two free and fabulous 'Book at Breakfast'…
Featured Poem: Thomas Hood’s ‘The Haunted House’
We're late for Halloween, but this poem by Thomas Hood has a wonderful mysterious feel about it. I remember a…
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…
