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Writing History: The Opening Ceremony in its Author’s Words

Are you looking forward to the Olympic Closing Ceremony this weekend, and wondering if it can possibly match the spectacle…

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Literary Landmarks: Robert Herrick and Dean Prior

From Emily Lezzeri, Get Into Reading South West Project Worker: If you are taking your Summer holidays in the West…

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A Little Aloud for Children takes to the Liverpool Bandstand

This Friday 10th August, at 12pm,  The Reader Organisation's Project Workers will be reading stories and poems from A Little, Aloud…

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The Pop-Up fun continues!

Did you see the story about The Peculiar Pop-Up Story Shop in the Wirral News this week, and wish you'd…

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Spotlight on Northern Ireland: Reaching Out

We return to our Spotlight on Northern Ireland series, by Project Worker Patricia Canning. In this final instalment, she discusses…

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Featured Poem: Sonnet LXXI by William Shakespeare

This week's Featured Poem has been chosen by Amanda Brown, Criminal Justice Projects Manager, who remembers reading it at school…

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Reading With Children is Magic!

Here at The Reader Organisation we are familiar with the powerful, and sometimes spell-binding effect that reading aloud with other…

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Lemn Sissay: Sparking the nation’s imagination

It's fair to say that the country, and in fact the whole world, is currently gripped by Olympic fever and…

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Matthew’s Story: Becoming the Man I Should Have Been

This is the final post in the series of personal accounts from Get Into Reading members which were first presented…

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Spotlight on Northern Ireland: H’s Story

This is the second in our Spotlight on Northern Ireland series, highlighting The Reader Organisation's varied activity  in the area.…

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August Masterclass – Out of the Depths: Heart-lift Poems

Calling all Shared Reading Facilitators! 'Out of the Depths: Heart-lift Poems' 1-5pm, 15th August, Blackburne House, Liverpool In the latest…

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Featured Poem: The Day Is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This week's Featured Poem comes from Emma Gibbons, Older People's Project Manager, who has been enjoying it with several of…

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