I've always been a massive fan of Carol Ann Duffy. The World's Wife was the first of her collections that I encountered and rem...

There are very few poems I can recite by heart, but Blake's The Sick Rose is one that I can. The Songs of Innocence and Experience h...

Rupert Brooke is most well known for his patriotic poems from the First World War, some of which are fantastic. However, my favourite of...

Read Invictus here . I first came across Invictus by William Ernest Henley a short while after my sixth form English Lit teacher help...

Hello, hi, hey there. It's been a while, huh? I've been umming and ahhing about coming back to Lit Nerd pretty much since I pub...

In case you haven't noticed, I've been taking some time away from Lit Nerd. I don't know when - or, if - I'll be back, bu...

It has been a couple of weeks since I finished The Summer of Broken Stories but, as I said in my review, it's still floating around...