Words and sounds can establish a rhythm for your poem and capture the reader or listener's imagination, author Michelle ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Well, badly handled rhyme is not to love, but more of that later. Snot and knickers? Grisly teachers? Bouncy, funny poems full of lavatorial humour will go down well with most children ...

Poet Arundhathi Subramaniam, who was in Chandigarh and also attended the recently held Kasauli Literary Festival, insists ...

The National Literacy Trust's annual literacy survey 2025 reveals that one in three children and young people do not enjoy ...

An imagined chat with Pooh commemorates the 100th anniversary of A.A. Milne’s “When We Were Very Young.” “Pooh,” I said, ...

The 70 very accessible poems in “Death at the Mall” do ... he interjects a few personal anecdotes and even updates a children’s rhyme. The pieces in this volume tend to run to no more ...

A book can inspire joy and stir the imagination. Even better this holiday season is the gift of sharing that book with your ...

"My kids (two and four) love all the Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler books, their favourites being Stick Man and The ...

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Kenn Nesbitt, who lives in Spokane, Washington. Kenn began writing professionally ...

THE Western Provincial Capital Gizo came alive on Monday as hundreds of children, mostly students, celebrated the annual ...

Covering everything from the anatomy of a carrion crow to the poems of William Cowper, this is a volume no budding ...