Poetry is the oldest and most varied art we have: if anyone tells you there is one correct method for composing a poem, ...

Reading poetry is sometimes presented like homework, but it can be as easy to understand as a trip to Disneyland, Matt Mason ...

One of the reasons writing poetry effectively reduces stress is its capacity to facilitate emotional release. Stress often ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an undiscovered poem.

How to write a poem How to use similes, metaphors and personification Different styles of poetry, like haikus and free verse This resource is suitable for creative writing for P2, P3, P4 ...

Poetry is often associated only with sentimental, rhyming couplets, but the literary form is so much more than this cliché and dull stereotype. If you explore it properly, poetry is so much more.

Bronagh is a Belfast poet and a retired primary school teacher. She has been shortlisted for the Troubadour International Poetry Prize and the Plough Poetry Prize. Her poems have been included in ...

Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar was imprisoned and tortured in a series of prisons. He found refuge in writing poetry. Now, the ...

Not that a difficult poem shouldn’t be written, I certainly write some, but I love that there are more poets out there in publishing, in poetry slams, in cowboy poetry gatherings, with poems ...

Poetry is the oldest and most varied art we have: if anyone tells you there is one correct method for composing a poem, they’re lying. Still, here are five ways to start writing, keep writing ...