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Featured Poem: ‘Sympathy’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem ‘Sympathy', first published in 1899, inspired the title to Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the…
No to Age Banding?
Sam Shipman works with school children, looked-after children and those excluded from school as part of The Reader Organisation's Get…
Featured Poem: ‘Piano’ by D. H. Lawrence
This poem was given to me to read last week by one of our Get Into Reading group members. K, who has also been…
Featured Poem: ‘Weathers’, by Thomas Hardy
The British summer has a lot going for it if you happen to be a meteorologist or a poet. Thomas…
Summer Break
The Reader Online is taking a break for a couple of weeks and as you can see we've left a…
Featured Poem: Wordes Unto Adam His Own Scriveyne
Writers often wish a plague of scabs (and worse) on their editors and Chaucer's poem about his copyist or scribe,…
The Reader Abroad Part 6: Deep Thought
In which Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation, works on an article for the magazine and exhausts herself by…
Orwell Diaries Blog
From the 9th of August the Orwell Prize organisation will be blogging George Orwell's diaries, starting from 9th August, 1938.…
Man Booker Longlist Announced
Earlier today the Man Booker judges announced the longlist for this year's prize. The books to be included in this…
When the books don’t work
In 1985 I bought my first 'Walkman', actually a cheap Sony Walkman lookalike wannabe personal tape player that I could…
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award
Frances Lincoln is an award winning publisher and Seven Stories, The Centre for Children's Books, is an innovative cultural centre for…
Featured Poem: Emily Bronte, ‘Stanza’
Think of the Brontës and poetry isn't the first thing that springs to mind. It's more likely to be Charlotte's Jane…
