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

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 nursery ...

Well, badly handled rhyme is not to love, but more of that later. Snot and knickers? Grisly teachers? Bouncy, funny poems full of lavatorial humour will go down well with most children ...

Explain to the children that they are going to try and work out the words missing from the end of each rhyming couplet; a pair of lines from a poem where the final words of each line rhyme and ...

You’ll probably know a bit about rhyme already as it is often used in poetry. Refresh your memory with this short, fun clip. You can sing and dance along with CBBC's Radzi Chinyanganya if you like!

Aimed at introducing children to a universe full of words, this 20x10 minute series is an interstellar journey to discover laugh out loud poems and rhymes. It's poetry but not as we know it!