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Something in the Air: Perfume
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. In the second of her series of posts…
Featured Poem: Winter, A Poem. By James Thomson
For some reason the weather seems to to have a strong bearing on the poetry featured here. I have no…
Recommended Reads: In Search of Adam
Caroline Smailes' debut novel In Search of Adam is a triumph of stylistic originality and a read that will remain…
Liverpool Reads … Mal Peet: New Website
Bea Colley writes: Exciting news! The Liverpool Reads... Mal Peet website has just gone live. Please take a look: www.liverpoolreads.com
Find the Poet
Angela Macmillan puts out a request to all poetry sleuths. Can anyone help track down any information about the poem and…
Recommended Reads: The Earthsea Series
Harry Potterites look away now. In this post Reader magazine deputy editor Sarah Coley explains why she thinks Ursula LeGuin's…
Featured Poem: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thursday this week is of course Valentine's Day, so our featured poem really had to be a love poem. So…
Links We Liked for 9 February 2008
Literary blogs seem to be taking over from the regular book review pages. In terms of the sheer number of…
Philosophy and Sport
I am in the final stages of co-editing a book about linguistics and the philosophy of language, the second of…
Tales From the Land of ‘Day Book’
Kimberley Long is a former Reader volunteer currently teaching English in Japan. This is the first in a series of…
Featured Poem: John Clare’s ‘I am!’
John Clare is famously a poet of the rural working class and the Northamptonshire countryside, but he is also a…
Liverpool Reads … Mal Peet
Bea Colley, Liverpool Reads coordinator writes: 2008 is the National Year of Reading as well as Liverpool’s year as European…