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NY Diary 1: Lint
Featuring Reader editor Philip Davis on 6th Avenue with our Spy from NY, Enid Stubin, she removing the lint from…
Featured Anthology – Oxford Poets 2007 – Hugh Dunkerley
The last poet to feature in this series is Hugh Dunkerley, a teacher at the University of Chichester and currently…
Mersey Care Reads Update
In her piece a few weeks ago, Get Into Reading project worker Mary Weston introduced the Mersey Care Reads project,…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Saradha Soobrayen
Saradha Soobrayen is a literary facilitator and Poetry Editor of Chroma: A LGBT Literary Journal. She received an Eric Gregory…
Recommended Reads: Megan Abbott’s Die A Little
Megan Abbott. Die A Little Simon and Schuster, 2005. Nineteen-fifties Hollywood has a seedy glamour that, half a century later,…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Kieron Winn
Today's poem comes from Kieron Winn, a freelance teacher and poet. He says of 'Mountain Water', "the final rhyme would…
Book At Breakfast Invitation 10th and 11th November
The Reader in association with BBC Radio 3 is running two "Book at Breakfast" events on 10th and 11th November…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Hilary Menos
Hilary Menos is the second poet we're highlighting in this feature. Previously working as a journalist, Menos now runs an…
27 Links: Links from The Reader 27 on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese
Josie Billington's biographical essay, A Place to Stand and Love In from issue 27 of The Reader magazine, explores the…
Pitching her case: Jane Davis on Night Waves
In the run-up to this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking festival in Liverpool next month, Jane Davis (Director, The…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007 – Grace Ingoldby
The first of our featured poets in the first of our featured anthologies is Grace Ingoldby. A novelist and poet…
So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool
Nicholas Murray, author of, among other things, biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, and Mathew Arnold, writes about his book…