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The Reader 69
The time has come round again to whet your appetite for some new reads, and with this quarter’s issue the…
Featured Poem: In The Fields – Charlotte Mew
We are celebrating the joy the onset of Spring brings in this week’s featured poem, In the Fields. This dreamy…
Featured Poem: I started early – Took my Dog – Emily Dickinson
This week’s featured poem I started early – Took my Dog – describes an enchanting and evocative encounter with the Sea…
Bringing Shared Reading to Kensington Palace
Great Shared Reading doesn’t need much in the way of surroundings: some people in a space, with chairs to sit…
Featured Poem: Blackbird by John Drinkwater
This week we turn to English poet and dramatist John Drinkwater and his charming poem Blackbird. While the Beast from the…
The Reader 68
A new year, a new edition of The Reader magazine with a wealth of new thinking, fiction and poetry to delight, inspire…
The Reader magazine: Autism, Shakespeare and soliloquies
In the latest issue of The Reader magazine, we hear again from Elizabeth Bonapace, a student at the Shakespeare Institute…
Featured Poem: The Voice by Thomas Hardy
This week's featured poem, The Voice by Thomas Hardy, has got thinking about reading aloud in Shared Reading groups, the importance of hearing…
The Reader join Radio City Talk’s Mental Health Marathon on Blue Monday
This Monday, The Reader will join Radio City's Mental Health Marathon to challenge the stigma and get the city talking…
The Big Give Christmas Challenge Round Up!
Seven days. Three match-funders. 292 donors. £45,881 pounds raised to train and support volunteers to bring weekly Shared Reading groups to isolated…
The Reader 67
Since our last meeting with The Reader magazine, a chill had crept into the air and it won't be long now until…
Outside In: Walking in John Timpson’s shoes
Last week we welcomed John Timpson to The Reader for our Outside In series, treating staff to a refreshing perspective on running a…
