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Featured Poem: The Send-off
I spent most of Sunday riding on steam trains at the East Lancs Railway. There is something very appealing about…
Art Garfunkel: Book Blogger Since 1968
The New Yorker has a brief story about Art Garfunkel (What, you need a Wikipedia link to work out who…
Featured Poem: The Milestone by the Rabbit Burrow
We are celebrating National Rabbit Week here at The Reader and in honour of the occasion our featured poem this…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering – Helen Dunmore
The final sections of the Earth Shattering, 'Forces of Nature' and 'Natural Disasters', combine poems that show the effects of…
Journal to Stella
Back when this blog was new we featured Pepys's diary, a blog using Pepys's diary entries as its daily posts.…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering – Frances Horovitz
Today's Earth Shattering poem comes from the section 'The Great Web', which takes its title from Denise Levertov's Web (included in…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering – D. H. Lawrence
The third poem to feature from Earth Shattering is Snake by D. H. Lawrence. From the fifth section of our…
Sean O’Brien Wins the T.S. Eliot Prize
Last night Sean O'Brien was announced the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. O'Brien, who is Professor of Creative Writing…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering – W. S. Merwin
Sections three and four of Earth Shattering, 'Killing the Wildlife' and 'Unbalance of Nature', bring together poems within those specific…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering – Wordsworth
Earth Shattering begins with sections entitled 'Rooted in Nature' and 'Changing the Landscape', which present us with the wilderness poetry…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering
We have reached 2008 and the ecological and environmental issues pressing upon us are more prevalent than ever. Don't worry,…
Recommended Reads: Leading the Dance, by Sarah Salway
by Caroline Smailes I’ve been a fan of Sarah Salway for a while now and so was thrilled when the…
