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Episode Six: Stories of Walking Away In this episode, we ask 'What makes a poem great for Shared Reading?' Again,…

In issue 73 of The Reader magazine, Angela Macmillan, editor of The Reader’s A Little, Aloud anthologies, recommends seven books…

'One thing about silence, is that it makes you listen You learn what’s important' From Eulogy for the Lost by…

This Shared Reading response is taken from Issue 73 of The Reader Magazine. For more articles, interviews, stories and poems from…

If you’re delivering a group online or over the telephone, you might find our Life Lines reading packs a useful…

The latest episode of our podcast celebrates the launch of The Reader Bookshelf - a constellation of reading matter that…

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with…

Following a successful pilot project in 2020, The Reader is collaborating with prison-based charity, Prison Radio Association, on a series…

The Reader is a charity which usually brings people together to listen to stories, extracts and poems in free, weekly…

It's 25 years since Forward Arts Foundation first set out to make sure we remember poetry is important - and…

Melanie is a volunteer Reader Leader for The Reader’s North Wales project, supported by the National Lottery Community Fund, which…

  The Reader's Head of Learning and Quality, Clare Ellis, shares her thoughts on this week's Featured Poem, Proud Songsters…