Limericks were first written in the 18th century in England. There is a town called Limerick in Ireland, but there’s no evidence to suggest limerick poetry comes from Limerick.

Last week letters editor Paul Russell asked readers to pen a poem, limerick, haiku, sonnet or poem about Canada. Many readers took up this poetic challenge.

The Leys In Verse contest - which closes on Friday, November 30 - encourages local people to contribute limericks, haiku or free-style poems, with £100 in vouchers going to the winner of each ...

And a return to poetry. We could all use more poetry in our lives, I think. But rather than go back to the haiku well, I've decided to mix things up and call for limericks. About spring.

With this new feature, users can select an artwork then choose from a sonnet, haiku, limerick or more to create an art inspired and AI-generated poem using Google’s PaLM 2 Model.