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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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Places to Go

Places to Go: Cell One by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

As October is Black History Month, we have chosen a month of readings on this theme for our Daily Readings.…

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Live Streams

National Poetry Day Live Stream: A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson

Kicking off a whole month of Daily Readings for #BlackHistoryMonth in October, we're hosting a special #NationalPoetryDay live stream here…

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My Inner Anthology

My Inner Anthology: This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff

In this feature we're thinking about which bits of literature – whether that be in the form of poems, novels,…

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Live Streams

Live Stream: The first Day’s Night had come by Emily Dickinson

For today's Shared Reading live stream, Head of Publications at The Reader, Grace Frame, reads The first Day's Night had…

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Featured Poems

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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Lines By Heart

Lines by Heart: The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats

The theme for our #DailyReadings in September is beginnings and endings. For this week's Lines by Heart challenge, PIPES Reader Leader…

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Places to Go

Places to Go: Mr. Peebles’ Heart by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The theme for our #DailyReadings in September is beginnings and endings. In this week's audio adventure we're reading Mr. Peebles’ Heart…

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Live Streams

Live Stream: Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy

The theme for our #DailyReadings in September is beginnings and endings. National Hub Leader, Esther, reads from Three Questions by…

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Featured Poems

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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Lines By Heart

Lines by Heart: There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

The theme for our #DailyReadings in September is beginnings and endings. For this week's Lines by Heart challenge, PIPES Reader Leader…

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Places to Go

Places to Go: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The theme for our #DailyReadings in September is beginnings and endings. In this week's audio adventure we're travelling the land of Jane…

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