Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prize Winners

2018

  • The 2018 Chair of Judges was Liz Lochhead

Keats-Shelley Prize 2018

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Laurinda Lind, Conscientious Objector

Essay Winner
Tara Lee, 'Philosophic numbers smooth'

Young Romantics Prize 2018

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Allegra Mullan, Storm

Essay Winner
Mine Kovavisarach, 'Of Liberty and Revolutions'

2017

  • The 2017 Chair of Judges was Baroness Floella Benjamin

Keats-Shelley Prize 2017

Poetry Winner
Cahal Dallat, Giant

Essay Winner
Hester Styles Vickery, 'Keats and Consumption'

Young Romantics Prize 2017

Poetry Winner
Tallulah Lefkowitz, The Step of Two

Essay Winner
Daniel L. Shailer, 'Guilt in Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

2016

  • The 2016 Chair of Judges was Professor Richard Holmes OBE

Keats-Shelley Prize 2016

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Will Kemp, Driving to Work at 5am listening to Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Essay Winner
Michael Allen, 'A Distant Idea of Proximity: How Keats handled Beauty'

Young Romantics Prize 2016

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Riona Miller, Sonnet after Frankenstein

Read essay Essay Winner
Sofia Amanda Bening, 'The Stuff that Romantic Dreams are made Of'

2015

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Daniella Cugini, Presence

Essay Winner
Stephen Horvath, 'How did Revolutions in Politics Affect the Poetic Revolution in ‘Lyrical Ballads?’'

Read essay Essay Winner
Parth Vaghani, 'Leaving Home (short story)'

2015

  • The 2015 Chair of Judges was Dame Carol Ann Duffy

Keats-Shelley Prize 2015

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Paul McMahon, Tom’s Pouch of Cure Stones

Essay Winner
Harry Cochrane, 'The Romantic Dante'

2013

  • The 2013 Chair of Judges was Salley Vickers

Keats-Shelley Prize 2013

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Patrick Cotter, Madra

Essay Winner
Eleanor Fitzsimons, 'The Shelleys in Ireland: passion masquerading as insight?'

2012

  • The 2012 Chair of Judges was Colin Thubron CBE

Keats-Shelley Prize 2012

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Nick MacKinnon, Terrier in rape

Essay Winner
Ruth Scobie, 'Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Explorers: James Cook, James King and a Sledge in Kamchatka'

2011

  • The 2011 Chair of Judges was Dame Penelope Lively

Keats-Shelley Prize 2011

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Pat Borthwick, Lord Leighton Brings Arabia to Holland Park (with extracts from journals at Leighton House)

Essay Winner
Priyanka Soni, 'Natura Naturata: Shelley’s Philosophy of the Mind in Creation'

2010

  • The 2010 Chair of Judges was Jack Mapanje

Keats-Shelley Prize 2010

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Simon Armitage, The Present

Essay Winner
Andrew Lacey, 'Wings of Poesy: Keats’s Birds'

2009

  • The 2009 Chair of Judges was Janet Todd

Keats-Shelley Prize 2009

Read Poem Poetry Winner
D.H. Maitreyabandhu, The Small Boy and the Mouse

Essay Winner
Jillian Hess, 'This Living Hand: Commonplacing Keats'

2008

  • The 2008 Chair of Judges was Ann Wroe

Keats-Shelley Prize 2008

Read Poem Poetry Winner
John Gohorry, Lost

Essay Winner
Susan Miller, 'Hellenic and Scientific Influences in P.B. Shelley’s Medusa'

2007

  • The 2007 Chair of Judges was A. N. Wilson

Keats-Shelley Prize 2007

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Richard Marggraf Turley, Elisions

Essay Winner
Adam Gyngell, 'Ye Elemental Genii'

2006

  • The 2006 Chair of Judges was Jonathan Keates

Keats-Shelley Prize 2006

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Martin McRitchie, The Experiment

Essay Winner
Alison Pearce, 'Magnificent Mutilations'

2005

  • The 2005 Chair of Judges was Stephen Fry

Keats-Shelley Prize 2005

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Edmund Cusick, Speaking in Tongues

Essay Winner
David Taylor, 'Prometheus Unbound'

2004

  • The 2004 Chair of Judges was James Fenton

Keats-Shelley Prize 2004

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Isabel Lusted, Soul with White Wings

Essay Winner
Porscha Fermanis, 'Stadial Theory, Robertson’s History of America, and Hyperion'

2003

  • The 2003 Chair of Judges was Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar

Keats-Shelley Prize 2003

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Leonie Rushforth, Bearings

Essay Winner
Stephen Burley, 'Shelley, the United Irishman and the Illuminati'

2002

  • The 2002 Chair of Judges was Miranda Seymour

Keats-Shelley Prize 2002

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Jane Draycott, The Night Tree

Essay Winner
Joe Francis, 'Doubting the Mountain: an Approach to Mont Blanc'

2001

  • The 2001 Chair of Judges was Grevel Lindop

Keats-Shelley Prize 2001

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Robert Saxton, The Nightingale Broadcasts

Essay Winner
Tony Venables, 'The Lost Traveller'

2000

  • The 2000 Chair of Judges was Tom Paulin

Keats-Shelley Prize 2000

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Antony Nichols, Graveyard Shift

Essay Winner
Helena Nelson, 'Wherefore all the Wormy Circumstance?'

1999

  • The 1999 Chair of Judges was Claire Tomalin

Keats-Shelley Prize 1999

Read Poem Poetry Winner
Cate Parrish, Ode to Someone in the Pool

Essay Winner
James Burton, 'Keats and Coldness'