Poetry works in many different forms: Haiku, Concrete poems ... looking at how it is laid out on the page. What do the children notice about the way this poem is constructed?

But poetry isn't just for adults. In fact, there are plenty of poems for kids that are both entertaining and enlightening. From our earliest moments, we're surrounded by poetry in the form of ...

Dom Sylvester Houdéard was both a Catholic priest and a member of the counter-culture art movement in the 1960s. His abstract concrete poems are still significant to the movement today.

Each of the first 6 programmes profiles a different contemporary children’s poet who introduces and then reads a selection of his or her work. The final two programmes focus on classic poetry ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

"However, what many may not realize is how heavy the toll is on children and future generations. Here, a collection of art and poems about the climate crisis written by children around the world.

Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond. By Bruce Handy As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror recommends creepy ...

Boland writes that poetry, as she first began to write and encounter it, had “no name for my life”, or the lives of the many Irish women who lived in suburbs, raised children and went to ...

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In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...