I even once told a shopkeeper in Montmartre j’ai oublié mon parapluie (I forgot my umbrella) which opened up a world of lost ...

The main difference between the two is that every sonnet is a poem, but not every poem is a sonnet ... nature of grief and the impact of letting go and moving on after the death of someone ...

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

Read Barker's poem about surviving Hurricane Helene in full, below, reprinted with her permission. Liz Barker's home in Swannanoa, North Carolina, is pictured prior to Hurricane Helene. It's gone ...

As an educator who makes us think, you lift us up in just a blink. The phrase "I am because you are" reflects the deepest ...

For the 2024 PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of before assembling a chapbook ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart’. It’s a great way to really show you understand the poem and have some fun sharing it with other people! It’s not always easy though.

Your breath grows shallow. Your whole body feels as though it’s engulfed in flames, like you’re either burning to death or ...

This week with my students, I revisited the poem ‘A Call’ by Séamus Heaney, who like leather jackets never goes out of ...