Are you a poet, who doesn't know it? You could be, we all could be. Writing poetry is different to other forms of creative writing. Fiction often involves wrestling with characters and careful ...

But poetry isn't just for adults. In fact, there are plenty of poems for kids that are both entertaining and enlightening. From our earliest moments, we're surrounded by poetry in the form of ...

Sometimes poems are short and rhythmic like a song. Sometimes they are long narratives with characters and plot lines like a story. So why do we read and write poems? For the writer, a poem is a ...

Many parents read to their young children at bedtime – but it tends to be a story they share with them, rather than poetry. However, the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho is urging mums and ...

Is children's literature meant to prolong the experience of childhood, or introduce our little ones to the darker realities of being a grown-up? Covering the last 300 years of Polish poetry, Marek ...