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Launching a Reading Revolution
Founded at the University of Liverpool in 1997, The Reader Organisation became a charitable trust during 2008. Our aim is…
Event: Physiological Responses to Shakespeare
We have varying physiological responses to Shakespeare, depending on whether we are reading or listening to works of the Bard,…
Rebecca Goss at the first Liverpool Literary Festival event Monday 3rd November
The first event of the Liverpool Literary Festival is on this Monday 3rd November at the Bluecoat at 12noon. Rebecca…
Featured Poem: William Shakespeare: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun
Shakespeare's famous sonnet of realistic expectations is both an expression of earthly knowledge and a declaration of irrational, inexplicable feeling.…
Book at Breakfast 2008
As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival (31st October - 2nd November), which sees the likes of Tony…
Roaming Readers: Ella Jolly spreads revolution in Glasgow
Over the summer I was thrilled to meet all the lovely people in the Scottish Poetry Library (SPL) who work…
Recommended Reads: A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carre
A sobering if not worrying read. Gripping in the usual le Carré manner with believable ‘nasties’ doing their establishment jobs,…
Roger McGough is a sell out at the Liverpool Literary Festival
Roger McGough is appearing at the first event to sell out at the Liverpool Literature Festival, but luckily he is appearing…
Featured Poem: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘They flee from me …’
Sir Thomas Wyatt is not much read now outside of the seminar room, but the musicality of this poem deserves…
Issue 31 links: The Magazine in the World
Now that issue 31 of The Reader is out, readers may be interested to follow up the activities and events…
Recommended Reads: Jeffrey Wainwright, Clarity or Death
Jeffrey Wainwright, Clarity or Death! Carcanet, £9.95, ISBN 978 1 85754 9126 In a curious way, poetry that is…
Festival Thoughts
Tim, a volunteer with Get Into Reading who was also involved with the recent Shakespeare in the Park performance, shares…
