Poem of the Week

I recently re-discovered today’s poem whilst participating in The Reader Organisation’s Read To  Lead Corporate Training at Bibby Line Group earlier this month. The language is a little dated and as such, it probably requires a few readings to make sense of it. Reading aloud really helps, or alternatively, click here to listen to a [...]

Tell Us A Story: The Winners!

I have been pleasantly overwhelmed by the volume of entries for BLG’s first ever creative writing competition. It seems that there are a fair few aspiring novelists and poets across the company! My fellow judge Lee Keating (a colleague at The Reader Organisation) and I have spent the last few weeks reading and enjoying all [...]

Happy World Book Day from The Reader Organisation!

Kindly reproduced from The Reader Online, written by Jen Tomkins.

In today’s Guardian, there is an article about the ‘books we only say we’ve read’ – something that all of us, no matter how well read, are guilty of. Today is World Book Day, a celebration of books and reading, so please do let us know [...]

Poetic miracles

 
St David’s Day – the feast day of St David, patron saint of Wales – falls every year on 1st March. Gillian Clarke’s poem Miracle On St David’s Day is a poignant testament to the power of poetry. The speaker of the poem is ‘reading poetry to the insane’ in some sort of mental health [...]

Passing on the poems and other great things

Today, Jen Tomkins, Communications Officer at The Reader Organisation, featured Thomas Hardy’s poem Great Things on The Reader Online. Somewhat serendipitously, I happened to take a look at the website at the exact moment when Hardy’s words seemed magically meant for me. So in the spirit of Jamie Oliver passing on recipes, I would like [...]

Poem of the Week

Later this afternoon, Bibby Line Group Head Office in Liverpool hosts the official launch of The Reader Organisation. Founded at the University of Liverpool in 1997, The Reader Organisation became a charitable trust during 2008. Our aim is to bring about a Reading Revolution. For us, literature is a force for social good and personal [...]

Launching a Reading Revolution

Founded at the University of Liverpool in 1997, The Reader Organisation became a charitable trust during 2008. Our aim is to bring about a Reading Revolution. Why? Because reading matters to everyone.
 
‘Can’t you stay a bit longer? I want to find out what happens in the story.’
Looked-after child, Wirral Children’s Service
 
‘Now I take the time [...]

If You Don’t Read Poetry, You Will After This

Last Thursday, Bob Holcroft and Mark Connors from Head Office in Liverpool and I attended the ‘If You Don’t Read Poetry, You Will After This’ event held at Liverpool’s Bluecoat centre to celebrate National Poetry Day 2008.
 
We listened to Dr Jane Davis of The Reader Organisation bring several poems to life. The selection included [...]

Uniting Britain Through Literature

I am often asked what it is that The Reader Organisation actually does. Well in today’s edition of the Liverpool Daily Post, Peter Elson has written a great article about who we are and what we do. It’s called ‘Uniting Britain Through Literature’ and is wonderfully enthusiastic and true to the spirit of our work. [...]

Ella Jolly goes offshore

 Later this week, Caroline Swailes (Community Programme Co-ordinator at Bibby Line Group) and I are being helicopter-ed out to the Alba FSU (a storage unit for oil) in the North Sea to facilitate a Get Into Reading group for the Bibby Line Group employees who work upon it. This is unmapped territory, for both The [...]