There are endless amounts of silly, whimsical and funny poems sure to give you a ... that poke fun at nonsense and others are ...

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

While you could send funny roses-are-red poems to just about anyone, these rhyming jokes are ideal for sharing with a partner, friends, family and, yep, even kids. If you're sending someone you love a ...

Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids at school visits, not all poems rhyme and not all poems are funny. But you’ve got to give poetry a chance. Here’s the first poem in ...

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.

My dear friend David, a prolific writer, wrote a funny poem recently about half lives that made me rethink my own thoughts about birthdays. About how when we’re kids, we’re always rounding up to seem ...

The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza (Malta: Horizons, October 2024) is a collection of 42 original poems (21 by Ahmed Miqdad, 21 by John P. Portelli) which depict the state of being of the two ...

I’ve always written poetry for children, but one night after a particularly ... I always wanted to write funny and also meaningful things to share, but I was never quite happy with my comics.

In 1951, she married Norman Hoberman, an architect, who illustrated her first book, “All My Shoes Come in Twos” (1957), based on poems she had written for her children. Her husband died in ...