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Featured Poem: Fleeing Away by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This week's Featured Poem comes from The Reader Organisation's poetry anthology Poems To Take Home, a selection of classics specially…

Recommended Reads #2:Orlando Orange and the Big Scary Bear
As a special treat this week, we are giving you not one but two Recommended Reads! Our second comes from…

Readers of the World: Iceland
It's time once more to pack our bags - metaphorically speaking - and head to foreign climes, as we continue…

The Evening Read-In: The Metamorphosis Part 4
Here we go, with the second to last part of this Evening Read-In, making our way through Franz Kafka's The…

Secrets and Words: literacy changing lives
This week the BBC is broadcasting a week-long drama series concerning adult literacy. Secrets and Words, which is being aired…

Recommended Reads: Robinson Crusoe
This week’s Recommended Read comes from Gill Stanyard, our Project Worker in Scotland, who has been cast away with Daniel…

The Evening Read-In: It’s a bug’s life…
What's the worst part of being suddenly turned into a massive bug? Taking twice as long to get up in…

Conference Tasters: Hear from our Speakers
The Reader Organisation's 3rd Annual National Conference is fast approaching (17th and 18th May, British Library, London) and we're very…

Conference Sneak Peak
We’re really looking forward to our 3rd Annual Conference 17 & 18 May in the British Library (left) in London –…

Featured Poem: The Mask of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
This week's Featured Poem is the choice of Alexis McNay, Get Into Reading Wirral Project Worker, who highlights the connections…

Frank Cottrell Boyce: Don’t let children lose sight of the pleasure principle
Anyone who has picked up a Frank Cottrell Boyce book will know just how riveting they are - and it's…

The Evening Read-In: The Metamorphosis Part 3
Are you sitting at your computer, tea and biscuits to hand? Because it's time once more to read in with…