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Featured Poem: After Dark Vapours by John Keats
Today’s Featured Poem is 'After Dark Vapours' by John Keats read by The Reader's Teaching and Learning Lead/CJ Group Lead,…
Featured Poem: I Felt a Cleaving in my Mind by Emily Dickinson
Today’s Featured Poem is 'I Felt a Cleaving in my Mind' by Emily Dickinson read by The Reader's Teaching and…
May’s Stories and Poems
To celebrate the launch of The Reader Bookshelf 2022-23, May’s stories and poems have been chosen with the theme ‘Into the…
Featured Poem: The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
Today's Featured Poem is 'The Peace of Wild Things' by Wendell Berry. It is read by The Reader's Shared Reading…
Featured Poem: Friendship by Dinah Maria Craik
What are the qualities that go in to friendship? What do we need in those closest to us? This week…
Featured Poem: A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson
The theme for this month's Featured Poems is 'Light and Darkness', mirroring this year's Reader Bookshelf. This week, Jess Harrison…
Featured Poem: A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
This week, The Reader's Rab Ferguson reads 'A Portable Paradise' by Roger Robinson. A Portable Paradise And if I speak…
Celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth with The Reader’s BSL ‘Featured Poems’
For a number of years, The Reader ran a Shared Reading group at the John Denmark Unit, which offers special…
April’s Stories and Poems
Spring is the season of looking out for and finding the new, and it’s this theme of newness that runs…
Featured Poem: The Candle Indoors by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The theme of this year’s bookshelf is Light and Darkness – which I chose with a few colleagues a good…
Featured Poem: Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare
Today's Featured Poem is brought to you by The Reader's Volunteer Coordinator, Lisa Spurgin. She reads 'Sonnet 64' by William…
Featured Poem: High Waving Heather by Emily Brontë
This week's Featured Poem is 'High Waving Heather' by Emily Bronte, taken from A Nature Poem for Every Day, read…
