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A sobering if not worrying read. Gripping in the usual le Carré manner with believable ‘nasties’ doing their establishment jobs,…

Sir Thomas Wyatt is not much read now outside of the seminar room, but the musicality of this poem deserves…

Jeffrey Wainwright, Clarity or Death! Carcanet, £9.95, ISBN 978 1 85754 9126   In a curious way, poetry that is…

Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale' needs little in the way of introduction and I'm posting it today simply because it…

Poet Eleanor Rees will be performing at the Bluecoat's Chapter and Verse literature festival and is currently exploring writing poems…

There will be a big homecoming of Liverpool poets during the Liverpool Literature Festival from 3-9 November, with writers coming…

Gould’s Book of Fish: a novel in twelve fish, by Richard Flanagan (London: Atlantic Books, 2002), pp. 404. Chris Pak…

Poet William Gilson introduces his poem Sixty. I'm an American living permanently in England. My wife Alison is English. Our…

Poetry is changing and the ways we encounter it are changing too. Friend of The Reader Organisation Rebecca Goss is…

Yesterday I was contacted by writer Maggie Goren with a piece she had written in response to Raymond Tallis's story…

Continuing our series of recommendations from inmates of Walton Prison, here is Martin's take on a thriller written by the…

Jackie Kay will be appearing alongside Matt Simpson at the Sefton Celebrates Writing Literary Festival on Saturday 27 September at…