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

However, in the October 31 episode, grammar sticklers zeroed in on something specific: a possible misuse of alliteration with the phrase “Happy Hour.” The contestants were returning champion ...

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

There might be rhymes in there that I can build on, or a phrase or line that is asking to be repeated through the poem, and if it needs to be free verse there may be elements such alliteration and ...

It includes textual analysis of the poetic techniques of alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme and meter in Sandra Boynton’s ... “‘Snow on My Eyelashes’: Language Awareness through Age-Appropriate Poetry ...

Anthony Horowitz:Hello, I'm Anthony Horowitz. Are you a poet, who doesn't know it? You could be, we all could be. Writing poetry is different to other forms of creative writing. Fiction often ...

Whether you’re looking to soothe your mind, ignite your inner rebel or make your heart sing, poetry offers something for every day and every mood. As Dylan Thomas said, “poetry is what in a poem makes ...

Through her long life she has expressed in the truest and finest sense the essence of poetry. Commencing her literary career in pioneer days she has always in her poetry maintained a pure lyrical note ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” ...

The First World War inspired profound poetry, words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle were evoked perhaps more vividly than ever before. The First World War poets – many of whom lost ...