From love poems for her and love poems for him to words exploring issues of unity and injustice, gender and race, the best poem books explore all aspects of life.
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 ...
Andrew said: “The poems were never aimed to be anything serious, they’re just for fun. “I think the Scrub Daddy one was my favorite — we got a selection of sponges, a Dish Daddy and lots ...
After: Poetry Destroys Silence” is a documentary that argues that poets are as crucial to processing unthinkable tragedy as historians. The film’s look and sound are lyrical, providing an apt setting ...
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 ...