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Featured Poem: Lift Not the Painted Veil by Percy Bysshe Shelley
This week's Featured Poem comes from Percy Bysshe Shelley. Lift Not the Painted Veil is a popular poem in Shared Reading and here…
Give A Little Aloud With Love this Valentines
'Love loves to love love...' Has any other subject inspired history's greatest writers more? As we prepare to celebrate A Little, Aloud…
‘To use and not simply deny negative material’: Shared Reading in action
This month The Reader features in The Psychologist magazine. CRILS' Philip Davis discusses Literature in performance, psychology in action. "Literature is about the human…
Read of the Week: Stuart, A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
This week's read comes recommended by Laura, Sutton Trust Project Coordinator, who discusses Stuart, A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters. "In the…
Michael Rosen’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt experience launches in Liverpool
We went on a bear hunt! And what a beautiful day it was! “We are excited to be part of…
Featured Poem: Piano by DH Lawrence
For this week's Featured Poem we turn to the nostalgic recollections of DH Lawrence in his poem Piano. Born in Nottingham,…
Read of the Week: Being a Beast by Charles Foster
An unusual and intriguing choice from Course Leader Tom this week with Charles Foster's Being a Beast. ‘I want to…
‘Shakespeare continues to be a touchstone’: Obama Shares Reading
As he kicks back to catch up on his reading list, we reflect how former United States President Barack Obama's love of…
Featured Poem: My love is like a red, red rose by Robert Burns
As Burns Night approaches we thought no better time to start celebrating than with our weekly Featured Poem, My love is…
Read of the Week: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A classic Read as recommended by Practice Mentor Clare this week, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 'The founders of a new…
Featured Poem: What if you Slept? by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This week we have a wonderful Reader Story from Reader in Residence Laragh behind our Featured Poem, What if you Slept? by…
Read of the Week: Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
This week's Read is a collection of poetry, William Barnes' Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, as recommended by…
