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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,…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

Orwell Diaries Blog

From the 9th of August the Orwell Prize organisation will be blogging George Orwell's diaries, starting from 9th August, 1938.…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

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…

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Children and Young People

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…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

Grevel Lindop’s ‘Hen Felin’

Helen Tookey is a poet, writer, and editor whose book Telling the Fractures was published by Axis projects in May 2008.…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

The Reader Abroad Part 4: The Idiot

In which Jane Davis, director of The Reader Organisation, reads Dostoevsky.

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Literature

Critics vs. Bloggers

Jay Rayner in a feature in the Observer yesterday picked up on the media debate du jour: critics or bloggers?…

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Calderstones

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…

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