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Featured Poem: Toussaint L’Ouverture by John Agard

This week in our special series of Featured Poems, Andrew Forster, National Shared Reading Projects Manager, talks us through a…

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Featured Poem: A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

As September draws to a close, this Featured Poem comes from National Hub Leader at The Reader, Esther Harsh, who…

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Featured Poem: In Utrumque Paratus by Matthew Arnold

This week in our special series of Featured Poems, Head of Publications at The Reader, Grace Frame looks at the…

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Featured Poem: How Clear, How Lovely Bright by A.E. Housman

This week in our special series of Featured Poems, Learning and Quality Coordinator at The Reader, Lisa Spurgin looks at…

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Featured Poem: Class Zero by Inua Ellams

The Featured Poem is back and this week we're looking all the way back to September 2012 when The Reader…

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Featured Poem: Dreams by Paul Laurence Dunbar

This week in our special series of Featured Poems, Learning and Quality Coordinator at The Reader, Lisa Spurgin takes us…

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Featured Poem: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth

“Earth has not anything to show more fair.” This week's #FeaturedPoem comes from actor and patron of The Reader, Claire…

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Featured Poem: The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats

This week in our special series of poems to help us through the testing times ahead, Jane, a volunteer at…

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Featured Poem: The Good Morrow by John Donne

This week in our special series of poems to help us through the testing times ahead, Julie Gaukroger, The Reader's…

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Featured Poem: The Best Thing in the World by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This week in our special series of poems to help us through the testing times ahead, Natalie, The Reader's Learning…

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Featured Poem: To a Poet by Claude McKay

This week in our special series of poems to help us through the testing times ahead, Grace Frame, The Reader's…

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Featured Poem: Deep in the Quiet Wood by James Weldon Johnson

This week in our special series of Featured Poems, Erin Carlstrom, The Reader's London Development Manager, shares her thoughts on Deep…

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