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Links We Liked for 9 October 2007
While we were deciding what to do about National Poetry Day on The Reader Online I was pointed at…
BBC Radio Merseyside Event: Liverpool Black Pioneers
Ray Costello, the author of the new book on the Liverpool black community, Liverpool Black Pioneers, published by Bluecoat Press,…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: New Writing
Radio 4 has commissioned a series of short stories, collectively called Transformations, to be presented each evening this week at…
Norman Nicholson Festival
News has reached The Reader of another literary festival in October. It seems unlikely that the Danish pastries and power…
‘Time swims before me’
Eleven months ago I began working on a Get Into Reading project at a local care home for elderly people…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: The Otherness of Helen Mirren
Not unfamiliar to a regal presence, yesterday Cheltenham played host to one of Britain's most admired leading female actors, Dame…
Poppy Shakespeare Giveaway
Back in July we highlighted Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan as one of our 'recommended reads' (To read the recommendation…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: The Saga of the Broken Glass and the Missing Rucksack
My day at the festival started with a walk across Cheltenham's Imperial Square in the quiet sunshine of an autumnal…
Featured Article: Brian Nellist on Scott
Just added to the Features Page, an article by Brian Nellist from the very first issue of The Reader, over…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Shakespeare
Yesterday, my day at the festival was bridged by two events that could not have provided two more different insights…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Reports from The Writers’ Room
So what's it like in the Writers' Room on the first Saturday of the festival? In a word, busy. I…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Life Lines
Life Lines is an audio poetry anthology of some of the best poets writing in the English language today, including…
