Literania, a Sea of Books

From Poetry Parnassus straight into the London Literature Festival! My shifts this week were a little hectic at the Southbank Centre, especi...

Apologies for the lack of posts over recent months. This summer I am a volunteer welcomer at the Southbank Centre. This week was Poetry Pa...

I saw Jeanette Winterson give a talk at UEA in March, in which she read from this, her new book. Just like I had snapped up a ticket to go a...

If this blogpost were a library book, I would have a very big fine to pay! Apologies! It's been very busy recently, and not just in lite...

Well, the New Year and new semester are turning out to be bloody busy already! I've spent some time trying to organise my life a bit and...

This is a rollicking romp from London to Petersberg to Siberia at the turn of the 20th century. It follows Jack Walser, an American journali...

http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/commentisfree/2011/dec/12/ts-eliot-poetry-prize-pulled-out Interesting to see what she thinks is the pl...