Lord Byron: The Accidental Exile
Anna Camilleri explores Lord Byron's exiles for 2024's Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes
How to Write Poetry: Will Kemp’s 16 Tips for Aspiring Poets
Will Kemp, Poetry Judge for Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes, offers writing advice for 2024's Poetry Competition
A Brief History of Elegy
A Brief History of Elegy: IntroductionWhat is an elegy?
A Brief History of Elegy: Part 1Elegies Before Elegy
A Brief History of Elegy: Part 2Elegiac Couplets
A Brief History of Elegy: Part 3The Pastoral Elegy
A Brief History of Elegy: Part 4The Universal Elegy
A Brief History of Elegy: Part 5The Romantic (not romantic) Elegy
A Brief History of Elegy: Part 6Adonais
Keats-Shelley 200 Evaluation Report
Keats-Shelley Poetry Prizes 2021: Readings
Watch videos of all six finalists for 2021's Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Poetry
Keats-Shelley Poetry List: 11 Writ in Waters
11 wonderful and weird things inspired by John Keats' epitaph
John Keats’ Final Voyage 2.0: The Enhanced Director’s Cut (Extended Remix)
The Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast in conversation with Mark Wallinger
The Turner Prize-winning artist discusses John Keats, his love of literature and Writ in Water
‘Writ in Water/Writ on Water’: The Hard Life by Flann O’Brien
Keats-Shelley Prize 2021: errors, puns and John Keats' epitaph
The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome: A Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast with Nicholas Stanley-Price
Historian and heritage expert Nicholas Stanley-Price on Keats' funeral, the 300 year history of the Non-Catholic Cemetery (and what to call it)
Christina Rossetti, John Keats and the Pre-Raphaelites: A Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast with Dinah Roe
Dinah Roe on the Rossettis' Anglo-Italian heritage, Keats vs Shelley rivalries, and Christina's 'Writ in Water'
‘Writ in Water’ poems, Dante ‘Geezer’ Rossetti and John ‘Cockney’ Keats
Dr Dinah Roe reads and discusses Rossetti's 'Writ in Water' poems on the Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast
Young Romantics Prize Resources
Links to websites, videos, texts and podcasts for teachers and entrants to the Keats-Shelley and Young Romantic Prizes
Writ in Water, Glass and Lemon Juice: A Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast with Adam Smyth
Adam Smyth, Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford, explores Keats' epitaph
Writ in Water Music Playlist 3: Cry Me a River
Music to inspire poets and essayists entering 2021's Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes. This week's playlist theme: Rivers.
A Q&A with Angus Graham-Campbell
We talk to the author of 'Writ in Water', a new BBC Radio 4 play about the last days of John Keats.
‘On Keats’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley 'Writ in Water' Inspiration: Poem 3
Erica Jong’s Writing Advice for Young Romantics
Writ in Water Music Playlist 2: The Sea
Music to inspire poets and essayists entering 2021's Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes. This week's playlist theme: The Sea. Elgar, Fennesz, Debussy, Peggy Lee, Blur, John Lee Hooker and of course Jaws.
‘The Grave of Keats’ by Oscar WildeWrit in Water Inspiration: Poem 2
Keats-Shelley Prize 2021: Lesson Questions
‘Writ in Water’ Music Playlist 1: ‘Writ in Water’
Music to inspire poets and essayists. This week music inspired by 'Writ in Water'. Fela Kuti, Handel, PJ Harvey, Jonny Greenwood, Ella Fitzgerald and Deep Purple.
‘Writ in Water’ by Stella GibbonsWrit in Water Inspiration: Poem 1
Keats-Shelley Prize Inspiration: Matthew Sweeney’s Writing Advice to Young Romantics Advice for Young Poets - from Matthew Sweeney
Matthew Sweeney, who judged the Keats-Shelley Prize for almost 20 years, offered sage advice to new generations of young poets in 2018.
The Grave of John Keats
Burying a Protestant in nineteenth-century Rome was a dangerous business. Such was the hostility to non-Catholics that the authorities insisted on their funerals taking place at night; sometimes the mourners had to be protected by soldiers. So it was before dawn on 26th February 1821 that John Keats’s body was taken through the city. If you visit the “Non-Catholic” Cemetery today, as it is now called, since it includes many people of other religions, you won’t find Keats’s name on his gravestone.
Odes for John Keats
Anthony Gardner celebrates on Keats-Shelley's new publication - odes written by contemporary poets to mark the bicentenary of John Keats. Now available as an E-book.
Week 8: Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group - Melancholy
2 pm GMT, 20 May - John Keats' Ode to Melancholy and Charlotte Smith
Week 7: Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group - Two Psyches
Week 7 - 2pm GMT on Wedneday 13th May: John Keats' Ode to Psyche, with a side order of ST Coleridge's Psyche
Week 6: Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group - John Keats’ Ode on Indolence
2pm GMT, 6 March - we celebrate John Keats' great May odes, beginning (no irony intended) with his Ode on Indolence
Week 5: Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group - Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
Wednesday, 29th April, 2pm GMT - Mary Shelley's The Last Man - Lionel Verney's arrival in Rome
Week 4: Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group - Songbird Special
Thursday, 23 April, 1pm GMT - join us to read John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale and/or PB Shelley's To a Skylark. To mark the announcement of the winners of 2020's Keats-Shelley Prizes on Monday 27th April.
Keats-Shelley Podcast - Simon Barnes’ Songbirds
All four episodes of the Keats-Shelley Podcast with Simon Barnes are in one easy-to-access location
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Week 3: Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group - Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Week 3 - 2pm GMT, Thursday, 16 April - Shelley's Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Week 2: Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group - Keats’ To Solitude
8th April, 12 noon GMT: we read John Keats' first published poem - the sonnet, 'O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell'
Julian Sands joins Keats-Shelley’s ‘Per Tutti’ Synchronised Reading Group
The acclaimed actor sent this reading of Shakespeare's 44th sonnet from Los Angeles
Week 1: Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group - Shakespeare’s Sonnet 44
The Keats-Shelley Synchronised Reading Group starts 1st April, 12 noon GMT with Shakespeare's sonnet 44.
KEATS-SHELLEY PODCAST - A CONVERSATION WITH SIMON BARNES, 2020’S KEATS-SHELLEY PRIZE CHAIR (PART 2)
Simon Barnes talks skylarks and nightingales, wonders how Keats' bird could sing and fly, and considers the threat of exinction hanging over us all
Keats-Shelley Podcast - A Conversation with Simon Barnes, 2020’s Keats-Shelley Prize Chair (Part 1)
Simon Barnes talks Songbirds, nature, birding and considers who wrote the better nightingale: John Keats or John Clare?
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poem Of The Week 10 - John Clare’s Larks in Winter
Two larks closely observed in winter by the birder's favourite poet, John Clare
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poet Of The Week 9 - John Clare
Three closely observed nightingales by the birder's favourite poet, John Clare
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poem of the Week 8 - The Nightingale by John Keble
A nightingale flies with an Oxford Movement
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poem of the Week 7 - The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
Are songbirds superior to poets? Is birdsong better than books? William Wordsworth wonders, lonely as a cloud, in this poem written in 1798.
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poet of the Week 6 - Emily Dickinson
Two robin-songbird poems by another of the 19th century's greatest poets. Inspiration for 2020's Keats-Shelley Prizes.
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poet of the Week 5 - Christina Rossetti
Two bird song poems by the one of the 19th century's greatest poets
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Playlist
A special Spotify playlist of musical songbirds to inspire entrants to 2020's Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poem of the Week 4 - The Nightingale by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Keats-Shelley House joins the RSPB’s Let Nature Sing Take Over
Keats-Shelley House joins the RSPB's campaign to raise awareness of extinction threats to birds across the world
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poems of the Week 3 - William Wordsworth’s Two Skylarks
Romantic poetry's first generation version of Shelley's To a Skylark. William Wordsworth wrote two poems about the (and a) songbird.
2020’s Young Romantics Poster
2020’s Keats-Shelley Prize Poster
Michael Rosen’s 2019 Keats-Shelley Prize Talk
Whatever became of PB Shelley's A Poetical Essay?
World Animal Day 2019 - John Keats’ Immortal Nightingale?
Inspired by the newly published State of Nature report, we trace the erosion of wild spaces back to John Keats' nightingale
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Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poem of the Week 2 - PB Shelley’s To a Skylark
The second poem 2020's Keats-Shelley Prizes are celebrating this year
Keats-Shelley Prize Songbird Poem of the Week 1 - John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
One of the poems whose 200th birthday we are celebrating with 2020's Keats-Shelley Prize.
Michael O’Neill: A Tribute by Duncan Wu
Michael O’Neill was one of the foremost editors of Shelley’s poetry and prose. Shelley is a notoriously difficult poet to edit. ‘Prometheus Unbound’ alone, with its bizarre mixture of manuscript and early printed sources, none of them in any sense final, is a snare of traps and false leads. Yet Michael’s work on that and other, equally challenging texts makes the task of editing look easy...
Keats-Shelley Prize 2019: Byron’s Don Juan turns 200Sue Bradbury celebrates the birth of Lord Byron's epic satire
The Prometheus ProjectA Very Short Story by Lynn Shepherd
Inspired by 2016's Poetry Prize Theme, After Frankenstein, bestselling novelist Lynn Shepherd wrote a suitably chilling story...
LIBERTYRomantics, Radicals, Revolution
‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!’ wrote William Wordsworth as the French Revolution took fire in 1789. He was not the only poet to embrace this, the first modern rebellion championing the Rights of Man. ‘Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood’ became the watchwords of a generation which had had enough of the madness of George III, the ludicrous excesses of the Prince Regent, and the repressive dictates of both Church and State.