A Little, Aloud
We remember it from childhood. The unique comfort of being read to – at bedtime, when we were ill, as a salve for the bumps and bruises of life. D. H. Lawrence recognised that “One sheds one’s...
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Named one of the Financial Times Books of the year and featured on the National Short Story Week reading list for children, A Little, Aloud for Children offers a mouth-watering selection of prose and...
View ArticleA Little, Aloud with Love
Many of the most popular works in the English language celebrate love in all its forms: that heady first flush, the agony of heartbreak, joyful reunions, the love of a parent for a child. . . And what...
View ArticlePoets Don’t Lie
This leaf from a tree in the East, Has been given to my garden It reveals a certain secret, Which pleases me and thoughtful people. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ‘Ginkgo Biloba’ Volunteers from across...
View ArticleMinted
‘To see a World in a grain of sand, And Heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.’ – William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’ Discover poetry to guide you...
View ArticlePoems to Take Home
‘So let the way wind up hill or down, O’er the smooth, the journey will be joy: Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown’ – Henry Van Dyke, ‘Life’ As a...
View ArticleOn Active Service
‘No man outlives the grief of war Though he outlive its wreck: Upon the memory a scar Through all his years will ache.’ – William Soutar, ‘The Permanence of Young Men’ On Active Service: 1914-1918...
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