The Reader’s Marketing and Communication Manager, Martin Gallagher-Mitchell, shares his experience of this week’s Featured Poem, The Changelings by Rudyard Kipling.
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Featured Poem: Patience, Though I Have Not by Sir Thomas Wyatt
The Reader’s Learning and Quality Leader, Tom Young, shares his thoughts on this week’s Featured Poem, Patience, Though I Have Not by Thomas Wyatt.
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Featured Poem: May 1916, The Veteran by Margaret Postgate Cole
This week we’ll be sharing a daily poetry reading from our On Active Service 1914-1918 collection as part of our Armistice commemorations. Beginning the week with our usual Featured Poem, Clare reads The Veteran by Margaret Postgate Cole.
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Featured Poem: The Flower of Mending by Vachel Lindsay
Our Featured Poem this week comes from American poet Vachel Lindsay. The Flower of the Mending was originally published in his 1917 collection, The Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems.
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Featured Poem: To my Lord Biron’s tune of — Adieu Phillis by Katherine Philips
This week’s Featured Poem comes a little later than usual, so much so it is almost next week’s Featured Poem. So to herald in the weekend, Katherine Philips’ To my Lord Biron’s tune of – Adieu Phillis.
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Featured Poem: The Poet by John Keats
Our poem this week comes from a Reader favourite – John Keats. From The Penguin Book of English Romantic Verse, this week we’re reading The Poet: A Fragment.
Featured Poem: Say not the Struggle nought Availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough
Our Featured Poem this week comes from Arthur Hugh Clough who declares Say not the Struggle nought Availeth.
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Featured Poem: The Common Street by Helen Gray Cone
We begin our week with an ordinary moment made extraordinary by Helen Gray Cone in The Common Street.
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Featured Poem: Two Kinds of Intelligence by Rumi
This week’s Featured Poem comes from 13th century Persian Poet Rumi, but Two Kinds of Intelligence rings as true today as it did in the poet’s day. Continue reading “Featured Poem: Two Kinds of Intelligence by Rumi”
Featured Poem: Sweet Content by Thomas Dekker
The title of our Featured Poem this week may not strike you as familiar but it’s likely that you’ve come across it’s lines in some form or another over the years. This week we’re reading Sweet Content by Thomas Dekker.
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