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Edge Hill Short Story Competition–Readers’ Prize
Get Into Reading manager Kate McDonnell writes with news of Get Into Reading's involvement with the 2008 Edge Hill Short…
Featured Poem: Emily Dickinson, ‘With a flower’
Emily Dickinson is one of the most popular and well known American poets, but also among the most difficult to…
Unreasonable Employment Practices
Do you have a problem with your employer? Does your boss expect you to work for your pay? Do your…
More Funding Needed for Dementia Services
Katie Peters, a Project Worker for Get Into Reading, working with Mersey Care NHS Trust and dementia patients writes: A…
Les Murray Reads in Liverpool: Wednesday 4th June, 8pm at the Bluecoat
The Reader Organisation has teamed up with The Bluecoat in Liverpool for this rare chance to hear Australia's leading contemporary…
Imagine… Doris Lessing
Last night, BBC 1 broadcast a tribute programme about Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Presented…
More Howard Jacobson in a Soho Restaurant
The first of these clips is here, along with some truly terrible poetry in the comments. Many thanks to Howard…
On Not Reading Moby Dick
Kimberley Long is a former volunteer at The Reader Organisation. In this installment of her Japanese Diary she discovers that…
Featured Poem: Ephemera, by W.B Yeats
This week's poem is recommended by Kirsty McHugh of the OUP Blog and Otherstories. Thanks Kirsty. I only read this…
Doris Lessing Documentary Features The Reader Organisation. BBC1, Tuesday May 27, 10.35pm.
Coming up on BBC1 on Tuesday May 27th, the Imagine series, presented by Alan Yentob, is running a documentary on…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle–Happy Birthday
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22nd, 1859 and it's been a big week for him. A copy…
Featured Poem: Howard Jacobson surprised by joy in Soho restaurant
Over dinner in a Soho restaurant recently, Jane Davis asked Howard Jacobson to recite a poem. Here's the result. Jane…
