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Featured Poem: Hen Felin, by Grevel Lindop
Helen Tookey, whose poem 'At Burscough, Lancashire' from her book Telling the Fractures we featured a few weeks ago, writes to…
The Reader Abroad Part 4: The Idiot
In which Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation, reads Dostoevsky.
Critics vs. Bloggers
Jay Rayner in a feature in the Observer yesterday picked up on the media debate du jour: critics or bloggers?…
Costa Poetry Cafe, Liverpool July 24th, 2008
Reader Online contributor and poet Rebecca Goss writes with a reminder that the next Costa Poetry Café evening will be at 7.30pm…
Featured Poem: Sonnet–To Science, by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the strangest and most compelling writers of the Romantic period in the United States.…
The Reader Abroad Part 3: Pronunciation
In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, comes over all unnecessary with a rose bush.
Featured Poem: Røros, by Julie-ann Rowell
Julie-ann Rowell is a poet whose first pamphlet collection, Convergence, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her new collection, Letters…
Make it Tall
Back in the early 1990s I was teaching at a newly-minted and deeply underfunded university in the Northeast. I remember…
Britten’s War Requiem
Sixty years ago, Liverpool and Cologne were on opposing sides of a terrible war. Today in an act of reconciliation,…
The Reader Abroad Part 2: Equipment
In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, reads from Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian.
Recommended Reading
In Reader no. 30, we printed a letter from Maria Tierney in which she told us about the reading group…
Featured Poem: ‘At Burscough, Lancashire’
Helen Tookey is a Liverpool-based writer and editor. Her collection of poetry, Telling the Fractures, a collaboration with photographer Alan…
