Jimali McKinnon's new poetry book, "Love Should Be a Two-Way Game: Poems Written in the Deep Dark of the Night" (published by Balboa Press AU), shares poems that range from the humorous to the serious ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Well, now I suppose is as good as any time to talk to you about poetry and rhyme. Does a poem have to ...

"I only like poems that rhyme." Or, more drastically: "If it doesn't rhyme, it's not a poem." These declarations of allegiance to end-rhyme sound traditional or even daringly reactionary—fearlessly ...

The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop. Now it’s your turn For most of us, our first exposure to the joys of verse was when we ...

For Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a poet, poetry was that which “makes nothing happen”. Arnold Bennett, a writer, ...

I asked people to send in their thoughts. Most agree with Campbell. This does not surprise me. Over the years I’ve had feedback from readers who would like more rhyme in the poems we run. At the risk ...