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Mersey Care Reads Update
In her piece a few weeks ago, Get Into Reading project worker Mary Weston introduced the Mersey Care Reads project,…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Saradha Soobrayen
Saradha Soobrayen is a literary facilitator and Poetry Editor of Chroma: A LGBT Literary Journal. She received an Eric Gregory…
Recommended Reads: Megan Abbott’s Die A Little
Megan Abbott. Die A Little Simon and Schuster, 2005. Nineteen-fifties Hollywood has a seedy glamour that, half a century later,…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Kieron Winn
Today's poem comes from Kieron Winn, a freelance teacher and poet. He says of 'Mountain Water', "the final rhyme would…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Hilary Menos
Hilary Menos is the second poet we're highlighting in this feature. Previously working as a journalist, Menos now runs an…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Grace Ingoldby
The first of our featured poets in the first of our featured anthologies is Grace Ingoldby. A novelist and poet…
So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool
Nicholas Murray, author of, among other things, biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, and Mathew Arnold, writes about his book…
Featured Poem: The Sun Rising
Today's featured poem is John Donne's 'The Sun Rising', which really needs no introduction other than to say that on…
Poetry Launch: Life Lines 2
Last night, amongst the hustle and bustle of London's Tottenham Court Road and Soho, the launch of Life Lines 2…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007
In a new feature at The Reader Online, we're going to be featuring a recently published poetry anthology, bringing you…
Recommended Reads Round-Up
The Reader magazine has always prided itself on being the magazine to turn to when you don't know what to…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Leaving the Writers’ Room
Lunchtime on Sunday and I am sitting at one of the small round tables in the Writers' Room having something…
