“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

The man behind the immensely popular Poetry Unbound podcast discusses the two books he’s publishing this year, early objections to Patrick Kavanagh, and the vitalness of surprise ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Buzz on social media is that two AIs devised their own language. Shocking? End of times? Or might be something more ...

Sonia Sanchez is one of the most powerful voices in American poetry, a literary giant whose work spans decades of activism, ...

This is called a rhyme scheme. Watch the following clip to learn how rhyme schemes work and to see an example. You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

Manika Kaushal, an English lecturer at Amritsar, has revolutionised classroom teaching by turning textbook lessons into ...

"Pollard’s readings [demonstrate] the diversity of her work [...] At its most characteristic, her writing assumes a ...

If language itself is being annihilated, Joudah’s poems challenge us to ask ... logical contradictions that underpin those ideas. For example, he asks, “Shall I condemn myself a little ...

Since AI produces responses a logical order, it usually can’t surprise readers the way a human-written poem can, she said. If a large-language model tried to predict what word should follow “quartz,” ...

The Irish have a rich tradition of storytelling and poetry ... rest of your life." Irish language is also famous for its use of metaphors and allegories. For example, "When the apple is ripe ...