English poet ringing about text messaging symbol? (8)
I believe the answer is:
emoticon
'symbol?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'english poet ringing about text messaging' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'english' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is present in the answer.
'about' could be 'on' and 'on' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emoticon that I've seen before include "Representation of facial expression in e-messages" , "Smiley, eg" , "A combination of characters" , "Wordless expression" , "Textual symbol" .)