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Featured Poem: ‘The world is too much with us’
This famous poem, written in 1807, needs little in the way of introduction. Wordsworth's anguish over the lost connection between…
The Distant Sound of Children
Online Editor and Blog Man Chris Routledge reads from Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Harsh But Fair: Merlin Mann on Deciding Which Books to Read
It's a problem most readers have, but it's a problem magnified for anyone involved in any kind of publishing venture:…
Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival
The Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival takes place from 3 to 9 November 2008 and has a provisional line-up that…
Post-Holiday Catch-up Link Love
For the last two weeks I've been swanning around Western Scotland, staying well away from anything to do with…
Featured Poem: ‘Sympathy’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem ‘Sympathy', first published in 1899, inspired the title to Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the…
No to Age Banding?
Sam Shipman works with school children, looked-after children and those excluded from school as part of The Reader Organisation's Get…
Wirral Community Shakespeare: Two Extra Performances of The Winter’s Tale
The FREE tickets for all of the original performances of Wirral Community Shakespeare's open-air production of The Winter's Tale in…
Richard and Judy Book Club: Mounting Pressure for Change
As you know, a couple of months ago we started a campaign to get a classic work of literature on the list for…
Featured Poem: ‘Piano’ by D. H. Lawrence
This poem was given to me to read last week by one of our Get Into Reading group members. K, who has also been…
Free Thought
As part of the BBC's Free Thinking festival, Director of The Reader Organisation, Jane Davis, appeared on Radio 3's breakfast show with…
Featured Poem: ‘Weathers’, by Thomas Hardy
The British summer has a lot going for it if you happen to be a meteorologist or a poet. Thomas…
