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

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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 ...

Nov. 1, 2024 — A new study involving 8,500 children from across the United States has revealed that a form of air pollution, largely the product of agricultural emissions, is linked to poor ...

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 ...

But Bobby’s songs are powerful as poetry and powerful as music ... I know a lot of the kids in S.N.C.C.—you know, the Student Nonviolent Coördinating Committee. That’s the only organization ...

Few films stay with you like the ones you watched as a child. And the best kids’ movies come in all shapes and sizes – cosy animated adventures, thrilling tales of derring-do, visually ...

But horror-comedy succeeds often not just because the genres have similar aims but because death is kinda funny. The failings of the human body are absurd, disgusting, and dumb. Many of the best ...

Here’s what I find really fascinating. A sizeable proportion of these writers were Irish women. These include (and are not ...

Being a parent has its fair share of difficulties, which many may find daunting. However, some folks can reframe these challenges and turn their supposedly headache-inducing experiences into funny ...

But it was for his children’s books that Dahl was best known ... While most of Dahl’s works are breathtakingly original, this collection of poems reinterprets six well known fairy tales ...

Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast, author S.H. Fernando Jr. takes us through some of the defining cuts from the seminal ...