Literature

Hope, resistance and the value of Palestinian poetry

Using six different poems of Palestinian origin, Audrey Wong unpacks the repercussions of writing—about the dead, about the living—in a war-torn environment and highlights the importance of the counter-narrative.

The power of rhyme

Rhyme is a powerful device within poetry. It impacts the way you read a poem and adds meaning behind the words a poet writes. The rhymes within a poem can show us as much about the poem as the words themselves can. There are many different types of rhyme. When most people think of rhymes, […]