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Connecting People to the Arts Through Social Prescribing
Earlier this month, The Reader was invited to speak at the NHSE Social Prescribing Webinar – Connecting People to the Arts Through Social Prescribing. Brought…
Featured Poem: Class Zero by Inua Ellams
The Featured Poem is back and this week we're looking all the way back to September 2012 when The Reader…
Lines by Heart: Ending by Emily Dickinson
The theme for our #DailyReadings in September is beginnings and endings. For this week's Lines by Heart challenge, National Hub…
Places to Go: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The theme for our #DailyReadings in September is beginnings and endings. In this week's audio adventure we're travelling through time…
Live Stream: Like a Mist by Fernando Pessoa
The theme for our #DailyReadings in September is beginnings and endings. PIPES Reader Leader, Emily Wright, reads Like a Mist…
Poems for changing times: 30 poems for Shared Reading
So far, 2020 has been a year that none of us could have imagined or knew what would have been…
Poems in the Park
For much of this year, Shared Reading has been taking place through a range of alternative methods, such as Zoom or the telephone. But last Saturday, several groups…
My Inner Anthology: The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
In this feature we're thinking about which bits of literature – whether that be in the form of poems, novels,…
Live Stream: Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Reader's Head of Learning and Quality, Clare Ellis, reads an extract from Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell which can be…
Six Surprising Facts about the Mansion House
Next in our series of articles exploring Calderstones' rich history, Heritage Coordinator Holly Gilson shares Six Suprising Facts about The…
How literature can be a lifeline to support mental health
The Baring Foundation are an independent foundation which protects and advances human rights and promotes inclusion. Using their resources they…
My Inner Anthology: Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
In this feature we're thinking about which bits of literature – whether that be in the form of poems, novels,…
