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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…

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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…

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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…

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Why Reading Matters

If you missed Why Reading Matters on BBC Four on Monday, you're not too late to catch it: the programme…

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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…

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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…

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Children and Young People

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…

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Children and Young People

Christmas Reading: Part Four

Samantha Shipman Project Worker, Get Into Reading One of the books I will be giving this Christmas is Broken Soup…

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Literature

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…

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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…

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Publications

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…

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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…

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