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The Cosmos and the Whole Shebang
Jane Davis on the beginning and end of the cosmos, on Science Fiction, and Olaf Stapledon. Phil and I discussed…
Featured Poem: Candour, by Rebecca Goss
This week in our Featured Poem series we welcome back Rebecca Goss, who recommended Amy Lowell's 'Carrefour' for us back…
The Reader Abroad: Wind
In which Chris Routledge, Online Editor of The Reader Organisation, has a problem with wind whilst reading Housman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt-1TxvNtXM
Age Banding: a bad idea or just badly handled?
A couple of weeks ago Sam Shipman wrote here about the age banding row in children's book publishing and the…
Featured Poem: ‘The world is too much with us’
This famous poem, written in 1807, needs little in the way of introduction. Wordsworth's anguish over the lost connection between…
The Distant Sound of Children
Online Editor and Blog Man Chris Routledge reads from Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Harsh But Fair: Merlin Mann on Deciding Which Books to Read
It's a problem most readers have, but it's a problem magnified for anyone involved in any kind of publishing venture:…
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…
