Dr Fearnley, who is also a member of The Reader Organisation’s Research Team, has written about his experience reading with patients weekly in this secure unit, and why he thinks it is so important, in The Reader issue 34, which you can download for free here, or buy your copy of the magazine here if the ‘real thing’ is more your thing.

Other Stories is a blog about books and feminism, with added cat photos.

There’s even a snap of the snazzy new issue of The Reader! So, whether you’re a seasoned visitor to the blogosphere or just looking for online book discussion, you might be interested to have a mooch on Kirsty’s blog for yourself. You can find it here

In issue 34 there is Simon Barnes, the great sports writer for The Times, exploring the kindred stuff of sport and literature:

Sport is not news: it is literature in the raw.

It’s a packed issue, revealing the raw material (that is, the individual) behind finished works of literature.

There’s new poetry from:

• Stanley Middleton
• Julie-ann Rowell
• Christy Ducker
• and David Constantine

Jacob Polley is the latest Poet on His Work, writing about his haunting poem, ‘The Owls’ in a piece called ‘Fistfuls of Fresh Clay’.

This summer (August 6th) would have been Tennyson’s 200th birthday, so look out for celebrations and fresh thinking on the nineteenth-century poet. Plus we launch our series on Get Into Reading: the Reading Revolution.

Literature is personal, it is raw and as Phil Davis says in his editorial:

For The Reader doesn’t really care about too much about genre – hardly gives a damn in fact as to whether it is fiction, or poetry, or essay, or sentences in a letter. Don’t be deceived: our sense of variety is not merely something liberal. It is to do with wanting the life-stuff wherever we can find it and get it.

In issue 34 there is Simon Barnes, the great sports writer for The Times, exploring the kindred stuff of sport and literature:

Sport is not news: it is literature in the raw.

It’s a packed issue, revealing the raw material (that is, the individual) behind finished works of literature.

There’s new poetry from:

• Stanley Middleton
• Julie-ann Rowell
• Christy Ducker
• and David Constantine

Jacob Polley is the latest Poet on His Work, writing about his haunting poem, ‘The Owls’ in a piece called ‘Fistfuls of Fresh Clay’.

This summer (August 6th) would have been Tennyson’s 200th birthday, so look out for celebrations and fresh thinking on the nineteenth-century poet. Plus we launch our series on Get Into Reading: the Reading Revolution.

Literature is personal, it is raw and as Phil Davis says in his editorial:

For The Reader doesn’t really care about too much about genre – hardly gives a damn in fact as to whether it is fiction, or poetry, or essay, or sentences in a letter. Don’t be deceived: our sense of variety is not merely something liberal. It is to do with wanting the life-stuff wherever we can find it and get it.