Keats-Shelley
Memorial Association Patron HRH The Prince of Wales
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KSMA INVITES ENTRIES FOR KEATS-SHELLEY PRIZE 2009
NOW IN ITS TWELFTH YEAR!
LAST YEAR
The Keats-Shelley Prize 2008 attracted a record number of entries: 400 poems and 43 essays. The winners were announced on 15th October at the Awards Ceremony in the British Academy in Carlton House Gardens. It coincided with the launch of the Keats-Shelley House Centenary Appeal to raise vital funds for the refurbishment of the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.
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
“Cheltenham Literary Festival 2008” : The Cheltenham Lecture
The Garden Theatre, Festival Tents, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, 18th October, 5-6 pm.
An illustrated talk sponsored by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association: prize-winning biographer Richard Holmes proposes a radical vision of science before Darwin and explores how the scientific discoveries of The Age of Wonder had a profound impact on great writers and poets such as Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron and Keats.
Tickets £7, and a limited number specially available to Friends with £4 rebate. Book through Cheltenham Box Office as usual and KMSA will reimburse on the day.
The Temenos Academy invites KSMA Friends to attend a talk on “Shelley’s Spiritual Quest” by Ann Wroe, 25th September, 7 pm, at the Lincoln Centre, 18 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2. Doors open 6.15 for refreshments. A special rate is offered to KSMA Friends of £3.50 per ticket, apply by email temenosacademy@myfastmail.com or phone 01233 813663, Payments can be made on the door.
Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea Saturday 21st March 2009 7.30
'THE FIRST FAB FOUR: A SONG CYCLE'
By John Webster, incorporating music by Brindaband
Songwriter and KSMA Friend John Webster presents an evening of songs, commentaries and visuals in which he performs lyrics by Keats, Byron, Leigh Hunt and Shelley as folk-based, rock-influenced songs, and argues that they were a Beatles-like force in their own time.
Tickets £6.00, £5.00 concessions Booking: 01792 473238 info@dylanthomastheatre.org.uk
More details at www.pathfinderaudio.co.uk. Tickets available to Friends at concession price please contact John at pathfinderaudio@googlemail.com.
KEATS CIRCLE: "THE SPANISH EMIGRES AND THE LONDON LITERARY SCENE 1813-1834" Conference King's College London:
The Department of Spanish and Spanish American Studies at King's College London will
be holding on the 1st and 2nd of May an international conference on the Spanish political
exile in London between 1814 and 1834. The Conference will be inaugurated with a
public lecture by our key note speaker Professor Salvador García Castañeda (Ohio
State University) on 'The Spanish émigrés and the London literary Scene (1814-1834)
'. In particular, Professor Garcia's talk will consider the role played by Valentin
De Llanos, Fanny Keats husband, as well as his contacts with the Keats family and
other Romantic poets while he was exiled in Britain.
Date: 1 May 2009, 9:30-11:00
Place:
Room K2.31, Strand Campus, King's College London
ALL WELCOME
For further details please
visit:
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/spanish/research/lonhisp.html
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. She is planning to retrace 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 is doing this to raise funds – the target is £5,000 - for the Lymphoedema Support Network and for St Margaret’s Hospice in Somerset. She is doing it in two phases, the lakes in 2008 and Scotland in 2009.
Please visit her website: justgiving.com/keatswalk and give generously on line. Click here for more information in her press release.
She says “I have read Nelson Bushnell’s account of his walk in the 30's and Carol Kyros Walker in the 70's and 80's and I feel the time is right for an update, especially as there is now a film to be made about Keats.”
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.
Keats-Shelley Association of America - Carl H.Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants
Prince Charles: Patron of the KSMA
In the steps of Keats to the North: Charity sponsored walk
The Sheila Birkenhead Bursary Award
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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