Working as a group, the children create their poems and perform excerpts at the ... two into a rhyming line…You’re always there for me when I come home.I love you mum, you’re beautiful ...

Poet Amanda Hawkins shares their experience writing a poem they initially resisted writing and how Hawkins was able to move past that feeling and write.

The rhymes and near rhymes make a jagged scheme that is all the more beguiling for its asymmetry. When you read the poem aloud, you hear its jumpy, syncopated rhythm. It resolves into a tidy ...