Issue 34 includes:
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:
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."