Keats-Shelley
Memorial Association Patron HRH The Prince of Wales
Registered Charity No: 212692
FIRST BUDDHIST WINNER
FOR THE KEATS-SHELLEY PRIZE 2009
£3,000 AWARDED IN PRIZES
“Unsuitable Deaths– Controlling the Dead”
Keats-Shelley Association of America - Carl H.Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants
Prince Charles: Patron of the KSMA
Poetry in Concert: Love’s Unprotected Face
In the steps of Keats to the North: Charity sponsored walk
The Sheila Birkenhead Bursary Awards
New article on the Keats-Shelley House
Sponsored by The Cowley Foundation, The School of English,
University of St Andrews, and The Liberal Magazine
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Keats-Shelley Prize 2009: The Winners
See also Awards Page: Winners and their entries
Poetry winners: First Prize: DH Maitreyabandhu, for “The Small Boy and the Mouse”. He is a published poet who lives and works at the London Buddhist Centre in Bethnal Green.
Second Prize: Antoinette Fawcett, for Where Places Exist. She is a Ph.D student at UEA, currently translating Dutch modernist poetry.
Third Prize: Josh Ekroy, for Ted Smith. He is a former Further Education Lecturer and a published poet.
Essay winners: First Prize: Jillian Hess, for “This Living Hand: Commonplacing Keats”. She is a Ph.D student in English Literature at Stanford University, researching the value of commonplace books in nineteenth-century literary studies.
Second Prize: Stacey McDowell, for “Grotesque Organicism in John Keats’s ‘Isabella, or, the Pot of Basil’”. She is also a Ph.D student, working at Bristol on representations of taste in Keats and William Hazlitt
The winners were announced by the Chairman of the Judges, Dr Janet Todd, Herbert J C Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen and President of Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge, at the Awards Ceremony on Wednesday 28th October, 6.30 pm, at St Martin’s Crypt, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. After presenting the prizes she gave the Keats-Shelley Annual Lecture on “Unsuitable Deaths: Controlling the Dead”. The Judges’ Panel consisted of: Matthew Sweeney and John Hartley Williams (poetry) and Professors Simon Bainbridge and Sharon Ruston (essays). The Prize was sponsored by The School of English, University of St Andrews, The Cowley Foundation and The Liberal Magazine.
Poetry winner: First Prize: DH Maitreyabandhu
for “The Small Boy and the Mouse”
Essay winner: First Prize: Jillian Hess
for “ This Living Hand: Commonplacing Keats”
LAST YEAR
Prize chairman was Dr Ann Wroe, acclaimed author of last year’s new contribution to the Romantic canon, Being Shelley. She is also the Special Features Editor of The Economist and author of Pilate: the Biography of an Invented Man. She was joined by the poets Matthew Sweeney and John Hartley Williams to judge the poetry entries, and by Professor Peter Kitson of the University of Dundee and Dr Seamus Perry of Balliol College, to judge the essay entries.
Prizes, to the value of £3,000, were awarded for poems on the theme of ‘Lost’, and essays as usual on Keats, Byssche Shelley, Mary Shelley or Lord Byron.
As usual the winning poets were drawn from all age groups. First prize: John Gohorry, a sixty-five year old prolific poet from Hertfordshire; joint second: Jackie Hinden, who recently graduated from Sussex University as a mature student, and Caroline Gilfillan, poet and recently winner of Channel 4’s The Radio Play’s the Thing competition.
The winning essayists were all young. The winner: Susan Miller for her essay “Hellenic and Scientific Influences in P.B. Shelley’s Medusa”. Second: Adam Gyngell, last year's first-prize winner, for his essay “Romance and Romanticism: Byron, Keats and the Quest.” Joint third: Owain McKimm, for his essay “The Triumph of Life: Shelley’s Angelica Farfalla” and Thomas Owens, for his essay “The murderous Shelley: Poetic influence and poetic parricide in ‘Alastor’ and ‘Mont Blanc’”.
The Prize was sponsored by The School of English, University of St Andrews, The Cowley Foundation and The Liberal Magazine”
Keats-Shelley Association of America, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants
The Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc., awards two $2,500 research grants annually. Named in honour of the Association's most generous benefactor, the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants support the work of advanced graduate students, independent scholars, and untenured faculty. The grants provide funding for expenses related to research involving the study of British Romanticism and literary culture between 1789 and 1832, with preference given to projects involving authors and subjects covered in the Keats-Shelley Journal bibliography.
The awards honour the late Carl H. Pforzheimer. Jr., a past President of the Keats-Shelley Association and among its vigorous advocates. He also headed The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc., long distinguished for funding scholarships centred red on early nineteenth-century English literature.
For further information, applicants may write to: The Grants Administrator, Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc., Room 226, The New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018-2788
Prince Charles: Patron of the KSMA
In March 2003, it was announced that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had agreed to become our new Patron, following on the death of his grandmother, The Queen Mother, who was the first Patron and supported us enthusiastically for 52 years.
Prince Charles himself had long taken an interest in the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, and visited it again in November 2002. His support, pledged in the centenary year of the founding of the Association, has given a special impulse to our activities in the UK, Italy, and in all the countries where the young English Romantics are read and remembered.
Prince Charles signs the guestbook at the House,
with the Curator and Arch Roberto Einaudi
The Duchess of Cornwall, on her recent visit
to the Keats-Shelley House on 28th April 2009
The Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome
CHELTENHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL 2009 :
On Friday 9th October, 2 pm KSMA will be sponsoring Edna O’Brien to speak about her new biography, Byron in Love (Orion Books). She focuses on his frantic love life and the array of diverse and colourful women and men. Byron’s giant flaws are not excused, but are balanced by his personal magnetism and, in his support of Greek independence, ultimate heroism.
For tickets check www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature or box office 0844 5768970.
POETRY IN CONCERT: LOVE’S UNPROTECTED FACE:
An event to celebrate National Poetry Day: “Love’s Unprotected Face: bringing the spiritual message of the Romantic poets into the 21st century”.
Thursday 8th October 7.30 pm, The Leatherhead Theatre, Church Street, Leatherhead, KT22 8DN.
Christala Rosina performs poems of Coleridge with her own work, accompanied on the harp by Susannah Evans
Box office & info 01372 365141, www.christalarosina.co.uk
KEATS EVENT AT NATIONAL THEATRE:
Two former Chairs of the KEATS-SHELLEY PRIZE, Andrew Motion and Claire Tomalin, will meet to discuss Keats’s work and read from a selection of his poems at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre on Wednesday 29 July 2009 at 6pm.
Andrew Motion was the Chair of the inaugural Keats-Shelley Prize in 1998, shortly before becoming Poet Laureate, and author thereafter of a biography of Keats. Claire Tomalin, his successor in the Chair in 1999, is the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Austen
Public Information:
National Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 9PX
Information: 020 7452 3400 / www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/exhibitions
Nearest tube: Waterloo
Tickets: £3.50/ £2.50 concessions
In the Steps of Keats to the North:
Feisty Suzanne Grogan, 46, is a Friend of KSMA and a sufferer from the little known condition lymphoedema. This January, 2009, she completed the final and Scotch stage of her walk in the North, retracing the walk undertaken by John Keats and his friend Charles Brown from Lancaster to Carlisle in the summer of 1818. A life-long lover of the poetry of Keats, she did this to raise funds – the target is £5,000 - for the Lymphoedema Support Network and for St Margaret’s Hospice in Somerset. She has already raised £3,000, so please help her reach her target, visit her website: justgiving.com/keatswalk
New article on the Keats-Shelley House:
“The House of Fame” is the title of a new article in the magazine of the Royal Society of Literature, in which the author and critic Jonathan Keates discusses the importance of literary shrines, ranging from the Keats-Shelley House in Rome to the former homes of Isask Dinesen and Lawrence Sterne. Available from January 31st in Waterstones and Borders.
Copies can also be ordered via the RSL website (£5 plus £1 p&p), www.rslit.org.