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Poetry Season on the BBC
The BBC are launching Poetry Season: an entire season of content dedicated to literature, and to poetry in particular, starting in Spring…
Event: Why Victorian Literature Still Matters
Philip Davis and Adam Phillips - 'Why Victorian Literature Still Matters' Friday 17th April, 19.00-20.00 Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, Victoria…
Latest issue of The Reader now available
Issue 33 of The Reader magazine, 'The Current of a Word', has arrived! Highlights include: new fiction from Rana Dasgupta…
Why Reading Matters
If you missed Why Reading Matters on BBC Four on Monday, you're not too late to catch it: the programme…
Reading for Pleasure is What’s Needed
At The Reader Organisation we are dedicated to bringing about a Reading Revolution - making it possible for people of…
The Reader’s February Sale
It's cold, it's dark and money's a bit tight. What better time to have a cosy read?! Everyone does January…
Christmas Reading: Part 6
Sarah Coley, Deputy Editor, The Reader I'm finally finishing George Eliot's Romola on my fifth attempt in five years. Eighty pages…
Christmas Reading: Part Four
Samantha Shipman Project Worker, Get Into Reading One of the books I will be giving this Christmas is Broken Soup…
Featured Poem: from Paradise Lost by John Milton
To celebrate the 400th birthday of John Milton tomorrow, we offer (not only an issue of The Reader dedicated to…
The Reader Christmas Gift Subscription Offer
Buy a gift subscription now (£24 for one year) and we will send your friend or family member (or yourself!) the…
Now Available: The Reader 32 ‘Happy 400th Birthday Mr Milton’
The latest issue of The Reader (32, Winter 2008) is available to buy now. The Reader 32 is published in…
Shipping Lines: Modern Poetry in Translation
By Alison Walters One of the sessions at Shipping Lines that fascinated me the most was the session by David…