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Featured Poem: The Pike by Amy Lowell
We've turned to the archives for this week's Featured Poem and thrust this lesser known poet back into the spotlight,…
Event Review: Brian Keenan at the Bluecoat
Written by Vanessa Chellembron, audience member at the Bluecoat Brian Keenan is best known for being taken hostage in Beirut…
Get Into Reading Group Diary #4: The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
Baines has a growing obsession with a Peter Eames – an architect in the 1860’s who had a flourishing career…
Literacy Changes Your Brain
The Mind Hacks blog reports on a study showing that literacy has a measurable physical effect on the structure of…
Get Into Reading Group Diary #3: The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
It's turning into a Friday regular... here's Louise Jones' next installment. Extract 3 I am definitely learning new words and…
Time to Read
The Time To Read website has recently been updated with new news. Jane Mathieson, Regional Reader Development Co-ordinator for North…
Get Into Reading Group Diary #2: The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
Here's the second installment from Louise Jones' Get Into Reading group diary. Extract 2 Baines is a historian who has…
Get Into Reading Group Diary #1: The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
Extracts from Louise Jones’ Reading Diary of The Rescue Man Louise Jones, a Get Into Reading group member, has been…
Recommended Reads: The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
by John Flamson, Director of Strategic Partnerships & Development, University of Liverpool. I read this book recently, after being advised…
Get Into Reading Group Diary: The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn
By Clare Williams, Get Into Reading Project Worker We began reading The Rescue Man in June and are currently just…
Featured Poem: ‘Mist in the Meadows’ by John Clare
This week's poem has been chosen by Katie Clark, a Get Into Reading project worker, who read it with residents…
Featured Poem: Promises Like Pie-Crust by Christina Rossetti
Chosen by Devi Forsythe, Get Into Reading group facilitator I used this poem when reading Bruce Chatwin’s On the Black…
