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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…
A Novel Way to Support Victims of Abuse
Caroline Smailes published her first novel In Search of Adam in 2007 to wide critical acclaim. Exploring themes of sexual…
Get Into Reading on Woman’s Hour
Jane Davis has been in touch to report that the Get into Reading project will be featured on BBC Radio…
Featured Poem: The Send-off
I spent most of Sunday riding on steam trains at the East Lancs Railway. There is something very appealing about…
Art Garfunkel: Book Blogger Since 1968
The New Yorker has a brief story about Art Garfunkel (What, you need a Wikipedia link to work out who…
Links We Liked for 24 January, 2008
It's been a difficult week for me so far, trying to finish off a book and start teaching again, with…
Featured Poem: The Milestone by the Rabbit Burrow
We are celebrating National Rabbit Week here at The Reader and in honour of the occasion our featured poem this…
Where Have All The Bunnies Gone?
Angela Macmillan ponders the under-representation of rabbits in grown-up literature. Eight thirty this morning found me at the vet's with…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering – Helen Dunmore
The final sections of the Earth Shattering, 'Forces of Nature' and 'Natural Disasters', combine poems that show the effects of…
Journal to Stella
Back when this blog was new we featured Pepys's diary, a blog using Pepys's diary entries as its daily posts.…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering – Frances Horovitz
Today's Earth Shattering poem comes from the section 'The Great Web', which takes its title from Denise Levertov's Web (included in…
Featured Anthology: Earth Shattering – D. H. Lawrence
The third poem to feature from Earth Shattering is Snake by D. H. Lawrence. From the fifth section of our…
