An exhibition of illustrations has been launched at the Poetry Cafe in London in honour of Victorian nonsense writer and artist Edward Lear, and to mark his 200th birthday. Lear’s most famous work is probably The Owl and the Pussycat. He popularised the limerick, and invented such creatures as Pobbles, Dongs, Scroobius Pips, and Jumblies. As part of Saturday’s celebrations, a plaque was unveiled at Lear’s home in Stratford Place, north of Oxford Street in London, with a ceremony later at Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey, and a Nonsense Day at Edinburgh zoo. On Sunday poets Michael Rosen and Roger McGough were performing a Lear tribute at the British Library from 2.30-4pm. The Poetry café exhibition goes on until 8 June. For a full list of Lear bicentenary events see here