The Keats-Shelley Podcast
Episodes

Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
At the end of 2020, the Keats-Shelley Podcast spoke to Erica Jong, the bestselling novelist, feminist icon and poet. In fact Erica was a poet before she was a novelist, publishing two poetry volumes making her name with 1973's Fear of Flying. While fiction has dominated her literay output, she has continued to release poetry throughout her 50 year career. Indeed, the inspiration for our own conversation was a poem she wrote in 1975: 'Dear Keats', which we found while researching John Keats' epitaph 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' during 2021's Keats-Shelley Prizes (Erica's poem quotes the line for her own purposes). Part of the interview has appeared: Erica offered some writing advice to our Young Romantics. We are sending the full audio version to Friends of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association before releasing to the general podcast public later in 2022. You can learn more about Erica Jong at www.ericajong.com The Keats-Shelley Podcast is hosted by James Kidd. The music is 'Androids Always Sleep' By Chris Zabriskie. Visit http://chriszabriskie.com/ For more about 2022's Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes visit: Young Romantics Prize 2022 Keats-Shelley Prize 2022 You can support the Keats-Shelley House by Becoming a Friend. Follow us on TwitterLike us on FacebookFollow us on InstagramSubscribe to us on YouTube

Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
2022's Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open. Our poetry theme this year is Elegy - to mark the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death in 1822, and also the composition of Adonais, his elegy for John Keats, the year before. To mark the launch of the Prizes, we remixed Mick Jagger's recitation of Adonais at Hyde Park in 1969 with our own lovely podcast theme music: ‘Androids Always Escape’ by Chris Zabriskie. Visit http://chriszabriskie.com/ Most of the effects are attained from looping or sampling. Jagger's own voice. We hope he - and more to the point Shelley - approves. Listen here or watch our trailer for the Prizes at either of the Prize pages on our website. Young Romantics Prize 2022 Keats-Shelley Prize 2022 You can support the Keats-Shelley House by Becoming a Friend. Follow us on TwitterLike us on FacebookFollow us on InstagramSubscribe to us on YouTube Learn more about the Keats-Shelley House and our KeatsShelley200 Bicentenary programme.

Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
On 15th July 1821, 19-year-old Maria Cotterell died in Naples of consumption. Her name may well have been forgotten if she hadn't sailed to Italy on the Maria Crowther, alongside 24-year-old John Keats. In this episode, we tell Maria's story - including new discoveries about her death, her brief encounter with Keats and her treatment by posterity.

Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
We talk to Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger about his life and career - and more specifically, his love of John Keats. The inspiration for our conversation was Mark’s monumental 2018 work Writ in Water, which commemorated the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta.

Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Part two of our conversation with Simon Barnes, the award-winning sportswriter, revered bird lover and Chair of 2020 and 2021's Keats-Shelley Prizes.

Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Thursday Apr 02, 2020
Simon Barnes, the award-winning sportswriter, revered birder and Chair of 2020 and 2021's Keats-Shelley Prizes, tells us about his love of birds and birding and why songbirds were so important to the Romantic poets.

Wednesday Mar 24, 2021
Wednesday Mar 24, 2021
In this episode of our 'Writ in Water' series, the Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast talks to Nicholas Stanley-Price about the 300-year history of the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome.

Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
How did John Keats influence Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites? In this episode of our Writ in Water series inspired by John Keats’ epitaph – ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’ – we talk to Dr Dinah Roe about Christina Rossetti, her sonnet 'On Keats' - and more widely about how Keats influenced the Pre-Raphaelite artists. This includes her brothers, Dante Gabriel and William Michael, fighting over who was better - Keats or Shelley?