Our curator Dr Kilgallon was a guest on BBC Radio 4 Today last week discussing Italy’s influence on Byron and his writing. To listen please follow the link:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… (2:52 in)

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We have great news!

We're delighted to announce that KSH Poet-in-Residence for 2024 Scarlett Sabet will be the guest judge of the 33rd Keats-Shelley House Poetry Prize for Schools.
You have time until 4th May 2024 to submit your poem!
Find out more here: bit.ly/3Up0cLE

Thank you to the Chair of the KSMA Sir Ivor Roberts, the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, the KSH Poet-in-Residence for 2024 Scarlett Sabet, and actor Dimitri Patrizi for the brilliant talks and readings, and thank you UK in Italy 🇬🇧🇮🇹 for hosting such a wonderful event.

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🇬🇧🇮🇹 Coming up next on our interactive map of Lord Byron’s travels across Europe: #Venice ! 🇬🇧🇮🇹

Follow this link to learn more about Byron’s impressions of Venice: viewer.mapme.com/7df7d2b6-1fdc-…

With thanks to UK in Italy 🇬🇧🇮🇹, UKinItalia 🇬🇧🇮🇹 & Keats-Shelley House.

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Italia! O Italia! thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty, which became
A funeral dower of present woes and past,
On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame,
And annals graved in characters of flame.

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To commemorate the bicentenary of Lord Byron's death we are proud to announce the launch of ‘Byron’s Italy: An Anglo-Italian Romance’: an exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House, dedicated to his relationship to Italian culture.
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Here are a few photos from yesterday’s great poetry reading by the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage. Thank you Simon Armitage and everyone who joined us at the Keats-Shelley House!

Thank you Scarlett Sabet! It was a great pleasure and an honour to host your poetry reading on Saturday.

One of our brilliant Trustees, BBC Journalist, Reeta Chakrabarti shared her 'castaway reads' with the Mayfair Times magazine - take a look at her personal recommendations including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein on p.102 of the latest issue: Mayfair Times (pagesuite-professional.co.uk).

Last week we officially launched our year of celebrations for Byron's bicentenary with an event hosted by the Italian Embassy in London. The ceremony was opened by Ambassador Inigo Lambertini with poetry readings by Simon Armitage and Scarlett Sabet.

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'If I should die I have left no immortal work behind me' #JohnKeats wrote in a letter to his fiancée Fanny Brawne, one year before his death #onthisday in 1821.
History has proved Keats wrong. His poetry is still alive and loved today more than 200 years after his death.

Did you know that Leigh Hunt was one of the liveliest literary figures in 19th-century Britain and he had a central role in bringing the 2nd-generation Romantic poets together?
To learn more about him come and visit our retrospective exhibition on him: bit.ly/47Qstzf

#OTD 200 years ago, Byron celebrated his last birthday before his premature death in Greece, on 19 April 1824. In commemoration of Lord Byron, this year, we'll be celebrating the legacy of this great Romantic poet with a year long programme of events:
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Happy New Year from the Keats-Shelley House.

Happy Holidays from the Keats-Shelley House!

Last week we opened our new #exhibition Serious and Lively: Leigh Hunt and Romanticism, on one of the brightest literary figures in nineteenth-century Britain.
If you missed the opening don’t worry, the exhibition is on until 12 April 2024.

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of all the many little gems in rome the Keats-Shelley House memorial might be my favourite 💕📚

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of the British poet, Benjamin Zephaniah. Remembered as the people’s poet, Zephaniah's work was dedicated to political injustice.
One of his great heroes was P.B. Shelley, admired for his radicalism and talent: bit.ly/3Rb2WcI

Last Saturday, poet and writer Amelia Loulli led a brilliant poetry workshop in the museum. It was an inspiring and energising afternoon for everyone who joined.
Thank you Amelia for sharing your passion for poetry and for stirring our creativity!

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