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

You may know Lewis Carroll as the author of one of the best children's books ever written: the highly imaginative, often silly Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But you may not be aware that he was ...

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 ...

Students could brainstorm ways in which a poem could be made funny, and when and why you would want to make a poem humorous. Students could have a ‘funny poem’ competition and try to write ...

"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.

And so, you know, is it one of my little, sort of dreamy poems where there's this strange man, this pig man? It would be ...

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 ...

By Ruth Franklin Advertisement Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry ... the master of children’s horror recommends creepy-crawly classics ...

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 ...