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Live Stream: Beauty by Edward Thomas
Beauty What does it mean? Tired, angry, and ill at ease, No man, woman, or child alive could please Me…
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…
Places to Go: Araby by James Joyce
In this week's Places to Go, we're heading to Ireland with our Publications Manager Grace Frame. Grace reads a section…
Live Stream: To Madame Curie by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
To Madame Curie Oft have I thrilled at deeds of high emprise, And yearned to venture into realms unknown, Thrice…
Live Stream: A Creole from Louisiana by George Marion McClellan
Lisa Spurgin reads an extract from A Creole from Louisiana by George Marion McClellan which you can find in the…
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…
Places to Go: My Antonia by Willa Cather
This week, Lisa Spurgin reads from the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather. Out of the four seasons of the…
Live Stream: David Swan by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dr. Clare Ellis, Head of Learning and Quality at The Reader, reads from the latest Bread and Roses anthology which…
Live Stream: If I could think how these my thoughts to leave by Sir Philip Sidney
XXI. If I could think how these my thoughts to leave IF I could think how these my thoughts…
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…
Places to Go: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, extract from chapter 6
This week, Natalie reads from F Scott Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby. Throughout lockdown, I have been missing places that…
Live Stream: The Voice by Thomas Hardy
The Voice Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as…
