We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with contributions from acclaimed authors and book industry professionals.

Writing your response to a poem, or making comparisons between two poems, takes careful planning. These tips show you how to analyse exam questions, structure essays and write in an appropriate style.

AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. If algorithms are getting good at writing poetry, it’s partially because poetry was always an algorithmic business.

PEOPLE prefer poems written by artificial intelligence to works by famous writers like Shakespeare and Lord Byron, a study has found. Readers rated virtual verse as more emotional, creative and bea… ...

WONDERFUL WORDS: Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening, , illus. by Karen Barbour. . S&S, $16.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-689-83588-9 ...