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The Reader 43
POETRY from Ian McMillan, Martin Malone, Rebecca Gethin, David Cooke, and Stuart Henson. Gwyneth Lewis is this issue’s Poet on Her Work.
FICTION
Two extracts from Steve Sem-Sandberg’s mortifyingly powerful Emperor of Lies (Faber, July 2011); David Almond’s ‘The Book of Beasts’ taken from The True Tale of Monster Billy Dean (Viking, September 2011); a new short story from David Constantine.
THOUGHT PIECES
Andrew Crompton writing and drawing on almost anything and everything, and Alan Wall offering an occasional series on the way that words’ meanings or forms change over time. And we welcome back and old friend, Kenneth Steven, who writes of the mountains.
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Issue 39 - From Dog to God: The Everything Issue
Issue 39 – From Dog to God: The Everything Issue
Featured inside:
* An interview with Sonja Sohn – star of the acclaimed television drama The Wire and co-founder of the Baltimore charity Rewired for Change
* Clare Allan – author of Poppy Shakespeare – investigates the genetic make-up of her dog, Meg
* Fiction by Salley Vickers and Stanley Middleton
* Poetry from David Constantine and Angela Leighton
* and we couldn’t have everything without all the fantastic features and competitions you’d expect from your quarterly dose of Reader goodness.
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