When I first discovered poetry, I noticed patterns there, too, particularly in all the different poetic forms: a limerick is five lines long with the first, second, and fifth lines rhyming; a clerihew ...
"Poetry should speak about contemporary matters and to one's contemporaries," Salter says. "On the other hand—and poetry's ...
Two children from the Thames Valley are among five youngsters battling cancer who have inspired a poem about courage by ...
A Scottish schoolgirl in remission from leukaemia is one of five youngsters chosen as the inspiration for a poem about ...
What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...
Fearne Stewart, from Blantyre, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia - a cancer of the white blood cells - in ...
A Scottish schoolgirl in remission from leukaemia is one of five youngsters chosen as the inspiration for a poem about courage by former children’s laureate Joseph Coelho. Five-year-old Fearne ...