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Featured Anthology: Staying Alive – Denise Levertov
The first poem to feature from our second featured anthology, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, is 'Living' by…
BBC TV: Cranford
Just a heads up to remind all our readers that the first episode in the BBC's much anticipated five part…
The Death of the Book
On Monday the online retailer Amazon is tipped to release its electronic reading device known as the Kindle. This is…
Links We Liked for 16 November 2007
It's been a rough week on writers. First there was Norman Mailer, then Ira Levin. The death of Mailer, as…
Recommended Reads: The Secrets of Harry Bright
Steven Powell has an M.A. in Victorian Literature from the University of Liverpool, and is currently studying for a Literature…
Recommended Reads: ‘Adlestrop’, by Edward Thomas
By Julie-ann Rowell. Julie-ann is a poet whose first pamphlet collection, Convergence, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her new…
BBC Free Thinking Festival: Going Sane
Hands up... are you sane? (A few hands hover in the air)... Insane? (A similar number of hands are thrusted…
Noel Godfrey Chavasse 90th Anniversary
Noel Godfrey Chavasse died of his wounds at Branhoek, Belgium on August 4, 1917, aged 33. The son of Francis…
Reader event: Food for Thought
Members of staff at The Reader Organisation share their experiences about ‘Food for Thought', an event held at the University…
People’s Choice Debate: Victory for Jane Davis
Jane Davis, Director of The Reader Organisation has been victorious in her 'Vote for Books' campaign as part of the…
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
It is rare that the world of books and the world of getting around to writing books come together, but…
Book Group at FACT Liverpool
Ella Jolly has been in touch to mention the book group she runs at FACT in Liverpool. The group reads…
