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Liverpool Poetry Cafe
The launch of Liverpool Poetry Café – at the Costa café on Bold Street – celebrated City Poems with 15…
Featured Poem: London Snow by Robert Bridges
Selected by Angela Macmillan 'London Snow' by Robert Bridges was much enjoyed by reading groups in care homes for the…
Stairway to Heaven
Addiction is a big problem for a lot of people. It starts at a vulnerable age with a copy of…
Something in the Air: Perfume
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. In the second of her series of posts…
Featured Poem: Winter, A Poem. By James Thomson
For some reason the weather seems to to have a strong bearing on the poetry featured here. I have no…
Recommended Reads: In Search of Adam
Caroline Smailes' debut novel In Search of Adam is a triumph of stylistic originality and a read that will remain…
Find the Poet
Angela Macmillan puts out a request to all poetry sleuths. Can anyone help track down any information about the poem and…
Recommended Reads: The Earthsea Series
Harry Potterites look away now. In this post Reader magazine deputy editor Sarah Coley explains why she thinks Ursula LeGuin's…
Featured Poem: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thursday this week is of course Valentine's Day, so our featured poem really had to be a love poem. So…
Philosophy and Sport
I am in the final stages of co-editing a book about linguistics and the philosophy of language, the second of…
Featured Poem: John Clare’s ‘I am!’
John Clare is famously a poet of the rural working class and the Northamptonshire countryside, but he is also a…
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…
