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Featured Poem: A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
This week, The Reader's Rab Ferguson reads 'A Portable Paradise' by Roger Robinson. A Portable Paradise And if I speak…

Celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth with The Reader’s BSL ‘Featured Poems’
For a number of years, The Reader ran a Shared Reading group at the John Denmark Unit, which offers special…

Be Part of the Story – Volunteer with Us
Be Part of the Story – Volunteer with Us Can you help rebuild the Reading Revolution and make a difference…

Shared Reading Against Racism – How can we use Shared Reading to open up a conversation on racism?
What part can The Reader play to end racism in the world, in a way that is authentic and meaningful?…

April’s Stories and Poems
Spring is the season of looking out for and finding the new, and it’s this theme of newness that runs…

Featured Poem: The Candle Indoors by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The theme of this year’s bookshelf is Light and Darkness – which I chose with a few colleagues a good…

The Reader at Calderstones unveils biggest ever spring season
The wide-ranging programme of reading, wellbeing and heritage events aims to provide people with more opportunities to share the same…

World Poetry Day – Featured Poem: The Valley Wind by Lu Yün (BSL)
Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic…

Become a Volunteer Community Curator at Calderstones.
Can you help unearth challenging connections between Calderstones and the transatlantic slave trade? Thanks to players of The National Lottery,…

March Stories and Poems
International Women’s Day is taking place on Tuesday 8 March, this year with the theme #BreakTheBias. We’re marking this global…

Featured Poem: Sonnet 64 by William Shakespeare
Today's Featured Poem is brought to you by The Reader's Volunteer Coordinator, Lisa Spurgin. She reads 'Sonnet 64' by William…

The Reader scoops up LCR’s Outstanding Contribution to Culture Award
We’re so proud to have won the Outstanding Contribution to Culture Award at Liverpool City Region’s Culture and Creativity Awards…