Keats-Shelley
Memorial Association Patron HRH The Prince of Wales
Registered Charity No: 212692
KEATS-SHELLEY PRIZE 2010
NOW IN ITS THIRTEENTH YEAR
Keats-Shelley Prize 2010: The deadline for entries to the Prize 2010 has now passed. 379 entries were received, and are being read by the Judges Panel. A shortlist will be published on this page in September and winners will later be notified by telephone. The Awards will take place on Wednesday 13th October at the British Academy in central London, when the poet Jack Mapanje will present the prizes and read from his work. Catherine Payling, Curator of the Keats-Shelley House, will show photographs of recent activities in Rome. Friends of KSMA and all entrants to the competition will receive invitations in September, and others will be welcome on a first-come-first-served basis, email harrietcullenuk@yahoo.com marking your email AWARDS.
“Unsuitable Deaths– Controlling the Dead”
Keats-Shelley Association of America - Carl H.Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grants
Fund-raising evening at Sir John Soane Museum
Cheltenham Festival 2009
Romantic Summer Season in Midlands: Heath House & Thrumpton Hall.
The Sheila Birkenhead Bursary Awards
Article on the Keats-Shelley House
(Click on the poster to download it)
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”.
Second Prize: Antoinette Fawcett, for Where Places Exist.
Third Prize: Josh Ekroy, for Ted Smith.
Essay winners:
First Prize: Jillian Hess, for “This Living Hand: Commonplacing Keats”.
Second Prize: Stacey McDowell, for “Grotesque Organicism in John Keats’s ‘Isabella, or, the Pot of Basil’”.
The winners were announced in an Awards Ceremony in London 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. 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).
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”
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
We are delighted to announce that His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales has agreed to extend his term as Patron of the Association for a further five years until June 2015.
He has long taken an interest in the Keats-Shelley House, since the days when his grandmother, The Queen Mother, was our first Patron. His renewed support gives 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 visit to
the Keats-Shelley House on 28th April 2009
The Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome
Tribute to Maria Fairweather :
Maria Fairweather Debbie James writes:
Maria Fairweather was based in Rome during the 1990s with her husband Sir Patrick Fairweather, the British Ambassador. Maria was a translator by profession but also a writer: she published acclaimed biographies of Madame de Staël and Princess Wolkonsky, the original owner of the British Residence of the Embassy of Rome.
Maria's fascination with literature and writers overflowed into a keen interest in the work of the Keats-Shelley House. Both Maria and Patrick gave valuable support to the events and cultural outreach programme of the museum and generously hosted dinners for several of the writers and poets who came to speak in Rome as part of collaborative events with the British Council: Andrew Motion and PD James were among them.
Another memorable occasion at the Villa Wolkonsky was for Gayle Hunnicut, who gave readings from Mary Shelley's diaries and letters for a dramatic piece "Mary Shelley at Babingtons". Maria was also keen to help promote the Museum's educational activities and presented prizes to the winners of the annual children's poetry competition.
Scott Brooksbank reading from Ode to a Grecian Urn, at an evening of Romantic readings March 2010 at the Soane Museum in aid of the Keats-Shelley Centenary Appeal
Scott Brooksbank reading from Ode to a Grecian Urn
CHELTENHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL 2009 :
"Edna O'Brien at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival"
Debbie James writes:
Last October KSMA supported an event at Cheltenham which was centred on novelist Edna O'Brien, in conversation about her recent biography Byron in Love published by Orion.
Although much has been written about the poet's excesses, diabolical deeds and rebellious nature, she reviewed his relationships with both men and women, vividly recalling the excitement and pathos of many episodes in his life. We were left wondering whether Lady Caroline Lamb, his half sister Augusta Leigh, Annabella Milbanke and Claire Claremont were victims or beneficiaries of the attention of one of history's most illustrious lovers.
Romantic Summer Season in Midlands:
Heath House & Thrumpton Hall.
(Click on the poster to download it)
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.
