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The Reader Abroad Part 4: The Idiot

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

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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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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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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.…

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The Reader Abroad Part 3: Pronunciation

In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, comes over all unnecessary with a rose bush.  

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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…

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Make it Tall

Back in the early 1990s I was teaching at a newly-minted and deeply underfunded university in the Northeast. I remember…

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Britten’s War Requiem

Sixty years ago, Liverpool and Cologne were on opposing sides of a terrible war.  Today in an act of reconciliation,…

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The Reader Abroad Part 2: Equipment

In which Phil Davis, editor of The Reader magazine, reads from Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian.

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Recommended Reading

In Reader no. 30, we printed a letter from Maria Tierney in which she told us about the reading group…

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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…

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The Reader Abroad Part 1: The Summer Residence

In the first of series of short films for summer, Jane and Phil Davis welcome us to The Reader's summer…

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