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The Rise and Rise of Bibliotherapy
Carly Townsend is a third year English Language and Literature student at the University of Liverpool. The French philosopher Charles…

Featured poem: Gerard Manley Hopkins
I came across this poem for the first time this weekend whilst flicking through an anthology at my Grandma's house…

Local Literary Events
There are some really fantastic literature events coming up over the next few weeks in the North West, including author readings,…

Links We Liked for April 2, 2008.
I've been away staying in a muddy field for a week or so and I spent most of Monday trying…

Reading and Health–Latest Research
(Above) Someone who may have benefited from reading. Through its Get Into Reading initiative The Reader Organisation has been promoting…

Favourite Poems Read by Animals
If there is one thing the Web has taught us it is that a lot of people have too much…

Japanese Diary: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Flier
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. For my Christmas visit home I chose a…

Featured Poems: An Easter collection
We realise that we can't bring you chocolates, or bunnies, or bunches of flowers, but we can bring together many aspects of…

So Spirited A Town–Nicholas Murray Interview
Over at The Book Depository Mark Thwaite has been interviewing Nicholas Murray about his next book, So Spirited A Town:…

Wirral Bookfest 2008
Bea Colley writes with information about the Wirral Bookfest which runs for a week from April 7th and features readings,…

William Faulkner and Barack Obama
C. Max Magee at The Millions has an interesting post about the recent speech made by Barack Obama addressing the…

Sentimental Old Fool
Deadlines have left me a little out of touch in the last few days but I wanted to share this…