Readings

Ep 26. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty read by Fiona Sampson

To mark the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death on 8th July 1822, Fiona Sampson reads her favourite Shelley poem: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.  Read Hymn to Intellectual Beauty here. Fiona is an acclaimed poet, biographer of Mary Shelley and, last but not least, Chair of 2022's Keats-Shelley Prize. Read more about Fiona Sampson at the Keats-Shelley Prize page. A phrase from Hymn to Intellectual Beauty inspired the title of Fiona's new book, Starlight Wood, which follows in the footsteps of several Romantic artists, writers and poets (including Shelley) across the 19th century countryside. Find out more about Fiona Sampson's Starlight Wood. We will post a discussion of the poem and Shelley in the coming weeks.

Ep. 23 Winner of 2021‘s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize: in the kelp forest by Katrina Naomi (read by Deryn Rees-Jones)

The winning poem of 2021's Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize is 'in the kelp forest' by Katrina Naomi, read here by our Poetry Judge Deryn Rees-Jones.  Click here for more about Katrina and 2021's Keats-Shelley Prize.

Ep. 22 Winner of 2021‘s Young Romantics Poetry Prize: ‘A Craftsman‘s Tale‘ by Eustacia Feng (read by Will Kemp)

The winning poem of 2021's Young Romantics Poetry Prize is 'A Craftsman's Tale' by Eustacia Feng, read here by our Poetry Judge Will Kemp.  Click here for more about Eustacia and 2021's Young Romantics Prize.

Ep. 9 Senbazuru by Joyce Chen - Winner of 2020‘s Young Romantics Poetry Prize

Joyce Chen's Senbazuru won 2020's Young Romantic Poetry Prize. The poem was read by Dinah Roe, Reader in 19th Century Literature at Oxford Brookes University, as part of our online awards ceremony.

Ep. 8 Indian Paradise Flycatcher by Pascale Petit - Winner of 2020‘s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize

Pascale Petit's Indian Paradise Flycatcher won 2020's Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. The poem was read by Will Kemp, one of the Poetry Prize Judges, as part of our online announcement.

Ep. 16 Readings: This Living Hand and Where be ye going, you Devon maid by John Keats

On 23rd February 2021, the 200th anniversary of John Keats' death in Rome, the Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast recorded a conversation with Dr Dinah Roe about Christina Rossetti's sonnet 'On Keats', which quotes his epitaph 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'.

Ep. 17 How did John Keats influence Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphelites? Reading and analysis by Dr Dinah Roe

In this mini Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast, Dr Dinah Roe reads and discusses two poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that quote John Keats' epitaph 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'. The first was also a sonnet ('John Keats'); the second a fragment included in a letter to the other Rossetti brother, William Michael.

Ep. 15 Writ in water, lemon juice or invisible ink? Adam Smyth examines John Keats‘ epitaph as material text.

What does it mean to writ(e) in water? And even more, what does it mean to write 'writ in water' on stone? Or is that in stone? These are all questions raised by John Keats' epitaph, 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'. Which is why the Keats-Shelley Podcast called Adam Smyth, Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford, and an expert in Material Texts: or the study of people writing with weird things on weird surfaces.