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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…