Parodies range from the sweetly celebratory to the viciously unforgiving. So sharpen your quills – it’s time to deliver poetic justice One of the marks of the serious poet is that they develop a ...

I enjoyed reading the poem which Winston Churchill wrote in 1899 or 1900 (Report, 7 February), but was puzzled by the comments of such experienced critics as Andrew Motion and Robert Potts. The former ...

John Clarke, who brought us Fred Dagg, the ABC television series The Games, and the 7.30 Report's John Clarke and Brian Dawe interviews, has also written parodies of major poets - from the English ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas and in every home, Somebody was parodying that famed Christmas poem … Wait. Hold it. Stop right there. We’re not going to add to the din, to the clatter, to the ...

Those four words could not be considered a full poem. But American poet and English teacher Thom Young posted them to his Instagram account, along with several other "short, trite" verses, in a social ...