“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 ...

New research has found that people are unable to determine whether a poem was written by a human or generated by AI. Despite ...

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 ...

It is a script made up of 90 syllabic signs, ideograms and numbers, a form earlier than that used for the Homeric poems. These clay tablets were fortuitously ... Nonetheless, by the end of the Koine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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,” ...