When I received the first 2025 children’s book in the mail for review this winter, its title brought back a flood of memories as well as lyrical snippets of the first two lines of text by Edward ...

The novel, based on Edward Lear’s journal, successfully brings to life the English nonsense poet’s year-long sojourn in India Edward Lear, the 19th century English poet and painter ...

For to earn daily 'pence, He wrote books of nonsense, Though with great works of art he was smitten. Lear's fame for his Limericks rose. Headjusted to it, I suppose. Rocitals of intriguing vice.

Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and Spike Milligan are good authors to read if you like nonsense poetry. Watch this short clip to learn about what nonsense poetry is and see an example.

Marking the centenary of Edward Lear's birth in 1812, a series considering the exuberant poetry and art of Edward Lear and the influence of 'nonsense' on modern life ...