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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…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

Find the Poet

Angela Macmillan puts out a request to all poetry sleuths. Can anyone help track down any information about the poem and…

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Children and Young People

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…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

Philosophy and Sport

I am in the final stages of co-editing a book about linguistics and the philosophy of language, the second of…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

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…

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Literature

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…

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