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Featured Poem: The Dream
Today is National Poetry Day and this year its focus is dreams, a subject that poets (and readers alike) are…
Sean O’Brien Wins the Forward Poetry Prize
Sean O'Brien has become the first person to win the Forward Poetry Prize three times, picking up the £10,000 poobah…
Recommended Reads: Stuart … A Life backwards
This recommendation is posted by Sara Pendergast, writer, painter, working in Washington State. Stuart ... A Life Backwards: Alexander Masters’…
Featured Poem: Hamatreya
So it's my turn to recommend a poem and I choose 'Hamatreya' by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson is better known…
Author Readings and Workshops Near Liverpool
Manchester-based publisher Comma Press is promoting a new book of short stories entitled Elsewhere: Stories From Small Town Europe and…
Featured Poem: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
ReaderOnline contributor Siobhan Chapman has recently returned to teaching after a year's sabbatical to write a book. Judging by her…
Featured Poem: Ode To Autumn
Thursday October 4 is National Poetry Day here in the UK and to mark the occasion we are going to…
Recommended Reads: Black Swan Green
David Mitchell is surely one of the best British novelists writing today and his latest novel Black Swan Green strengthens…
Recommended Reads: Einstein, His Life and Universe
By Siobhan Chapman. Walter Isaacson. Einstein, His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Albert Einstein was an engaging and…
Neglected Books
One of the areas where The Reader magazine excels is in looking again at writing that would otherwise get lost…
V.S. Naipaul on Young People These Days
He's been everywhere the last week or so. V.S. Naipaul has a book to sell and he seems to think…
The Booker Prize: Those Readability Stats in Full
Over at One-Minute Book Reviews Janice Harayda has been having fun with Microsoft Word's readability stats feature. Sadly this amusing…
