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Featured Poem: The Panther by Rilke
In the autumn of 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke began working as secretary to the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Rilke was commissioned to write…
The Penny Readings 2008: SOLD OUT
Edit: TICKETS HAVE SOLD-OUT! To add your name to our ticket returns list please email events@thereader.org.uk Now in its fifth…
Penguin’s Leather-Bound Classics: Boutique Books
The arrival of e-book readers such as the Kindle and the Sony Reader has triggered a lot of discussion 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…
Featured Poem ‘Piping down the valleys wild’ by William Blake
William Blake's complementary collections of poems Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are brilliantly ambiguous. This introduction is on the face…
Liverpool Literary Festival “A big success!”
Renée Hemmings and Sophie Povey reflect--well, maybe enthuse is a better word--on Shipping Lines, the first Liverpool Literary Festival. Seven…
The Golden Notebook Project
The Institute for the Future of the Book is running an 'experiment in close reading' in which seven women are…
Recommended Reads: Inside the Whale by Jennie Roonie
By Ian Olsen As part of the Chapter & Verse literature festival at the Bluecoat, I attended a session with first-time novelist…
An Autumn Afternoon In The City
culturepool presents An Autumn Afternoon In The City - FREE - Sunday 16th November from 12pm onwards: Our autumn days…
From Chicago: Election Night Elation
Earlier this year, Jane Davis went to Chicago to visit Rebecca and La Coya who run a literature based outreach programme called…
Featured Poem: Great Things by Thomas Hardy
In the aftermath of Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival (reviews and stories will be coming up during the week), The Reader Organisation…
Book at Breakfast 2008: Clare Allan
As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, The Reader Organisation hosted two free and fabulous 'Book at Breakfast'…
