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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…
Summer Break
The Reader Online is taking a break for a couple of weeks and as you can see we've left a…
Links We Liked for 5 August, 2008.
We're in holiday mode and it's only going to get worse over the next couple of weeks, so here are…
Richard and Judy Poll: We Have a Winner
Over the last month or so we've been conducting a poll to select the 'classic' novel that we would like…
Featured Poem: Wordes Unto Adam His Own Scriveyne
Writers often wish a plague of scabs (and worse) on their editors and Chaucer's poem about his copyist or scribe,…
