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

Or assonance where the middle of the word sounds the same: boy, joy, toy. And that is redrafting; that is editing and it's fun because you are like a poetry scientist pouring in some assonance ...

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 ...

Or assonance where the middle of the word sounds the same: boy, joy, toy. And that is redrafting; that is editing and it's fun because you are like a poetry scientist pouring in some assonance ...

Starting with his 1947 debut book Niepokój (Anxiety), Różewicz began using what he called ściśnięte gardło (tight throat) poetics, his ‘stone imagery’ reducing the poem to the most simple and ...

Poe’s writing career began in the early 1820s with the release of “Tamerlane and Other Poems,” a collection of poems that included the well-thought-out 403-line poem “Tamerlane,” which ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

His poetry soon took to itself not only Gaelic effects of alliteration and assonance, but Gaelic effects of rhythm: that "gapped music" so delicate that it seems to come from the rise and fall of ...

Christina Rossetti was one of the finest poets of the Victorian age, well known for collections including Goblin Market and Other Poems and The Face of the Deep. She addressed gender issues in her ...

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...