Celebrate National Poetry Month this April! Join us for a special celebration of National Poetry Month with the Poet-Imagery Tea Event, hosted by the SaddleBrooke Writers Group. This unique event will ...

University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. What are we to make of these lines where one thing bursts out of another? There are images here half inserted ...

In its purest form, poetry would consist entirely of images. Nothing more than pictures are needed to evoke a mood or arouse an emotion. As the proverbial saying goes, “an image is worth a multitude ...

Contrary to what English teachers led us to believe, most readers don’t judge poetry based on factors like alliteration and rhyme. In fact, a new study published in the journal Psychology of ...

Poetry that evokes vivid mental imagery is more aesthetically pleasing to readers, say scientists who have found several factors that make people like poems. Aesthetics, the underpinnings of what we ...