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Featured Poem: Love (III) by George Herbert
This week's Featured Poem comes from George Herbert, and suitable perhaps in the week of Valentines, Love (III). Welsh-born poet, orator…
What can older people do to combat loneliness?
Companion Stairlifts feature Shared Reading in their piece on combating loneliness for older people. You can read the full article here. According…
The Reader 68
A new year, a new edition of The Reader magazine with a wealth of new thinking, fiction and poetry to delight, inspire…
The Reader magazine: Autism, Shakespeare and soliloquies
In the latest issue of The Reader magazine, we hear again from Elizabeth Bonapace, a student at the Shakespeare Institute…
The Reader Cafe is on the move
We're transforming Calderstones Mansion House to create The International Centre for Shared Reading. To allow essential works on the building to get…
Featured Poem: The Voice by Thomas Hardy
This week's featured poem, The Voice by Thomas Hardy, has got thinking about reading aloud in Shared Reading groups, the importance of hearing…
Featured Poem: When I heard the learn’d astronomer by Walt Whitman
This week our Featured Poem comes from the great American poet Walt Whitman, When I heard the learn'd astronomer. After an…
The Reader join Radio City Talk’s Mental Health Marathon on Blue Monday
This Monday, The Reader will join Radio City's Mental Health Marathon to challenge the stigma and get the city talking…
Shared Reading expands nationwide thanks to National Lottery funding
UK charity to help people living with social isolation, mental health issues and dementia through reading groups. The Reader, a…
Darllen ar y Cyd yn ehangu ledled y wlad o ganlyniad ariannu hael gan y Loteri Genedlaethol
Elusen genedlaethol i leihau ynysiad cymdeithasol, a helpu pobl a phroblemau iechyd meddwl a dementia trwy grwpiau darllen. Mae The…
