This issue asks ‘Is Reading Good for You?’ The Reader’s staunchly held belief that reading can change your life, thought and health for the better receives support from both medics and writers.
Jenny Hartley has adventures in reading with reading groups:
‘Neighbourhood and word-of-mouth are what many reading groups are about…the grass-roots communicating with the global’Felicity Rosslyn on reading with medics, therapists and psychiatrists:
‘For long-serving physicians, the mere fact of discussing in a seminar, with no right or wrong answers, no hierarchy, and the acknowledgement that feelings are also real, would have been an enormous liberation’Meet the Reader – a psychotherapist describes her reading experiences:
‘Children’s books of all kinds…play a role in making some of the unmanageable emotions felt by young children more manageable and safe.
ALSO: New writing from David Constantine, Bel Mooney, winning entry of The Reader short story competition Going to Meet the Man, winning entry for The Reader’s Classic Rescue Prize, On Siegfried Sassoon
Features
David Constantine – In another country
Mark Haddon – Three poems
Simon Palfrey – Umbilica
Matthew Williams – Four poems
Bel Mooney – The Herdsman’s Wife
Alan Gould – Poem
Martyn Halsall – Poem
Ray Tallis – Manucapation
Giovanni Malito – Poem
Adam Piette – Devices of poetry
Felicity Rosslyn – Reading and Mental Health
David Gerard – Two poems
Nell Leyshon – The Blindfold Architect
Simon Korner – Short story winner: Going to Meet the Man
A.R. Gleave – Poem
Carolyn Johnson – Classic Review Winner: On Siegfried Sassoon
Robert Etty – Poem
Dr Bruce Charlton – Icelandic Journal
Jenny Hartley – Reading in Groups
Fil Moore – Going back to go Forwards
Joseph Allen – Poem
Regulars
Editorial
Reviews
The Reader Recommends
Second Hand
Meet the Reader: Henrietta Batchelor
Literary Problems? – Ask The Reader
Contributors
Crossword
Buck’s Quiz
The Spotter’s Guide to Readers