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Featured Poem: Sea to the West by Norman Nicholson

Today’s Featured Poem is 'Sea to the West' by Norman Nicholson read by The Reader's Head of Publications, Frances. Sea…

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Featured Poem: ‘I thought that my voyage had come to its end’ by Rabindranath Tagore

Today’s Featured Poem is 'I thought that my voyage had come to its end' by Rabindranath Tagore read by The…

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Featured Poem: “i thank You God for most this amazing” by E. E. Cummings

Today’s Featured Poem is "i thank You God for most this amazing" by E. E. Cummings read by The Reader's…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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World Poetry Day – Featured Poem: The Valley Wind by Lu Yün (BSL)

Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic…

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