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The Keats-Shelley Prize was inaugurated in 1998 by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. Its purpose is to encourage people of all ages to respond personally to the emotions aroused in them by the work of the Romantics, through rising to the challenge of writing their own poem or essay. Distinguished judges of the Prize have included Andrew Motion, Claire Tomalin, Tom Paulin, Grevel Lindop, Miranda Seymour, the late Lord Gilmour, James Fenton, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Keates, A.N.Wilson, Ann Wroe, Janet Todd, Jack Mapanje, Dame Penelope Lively, Colin Thubron and Salley Vickers.
| Year | Winner | Poem | Winner | Essay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Rukmini Maria Callimachi | "The Anatomy of Wildflowers" | Sarah Wootton | "Keats in Early Pre-Raphaelite Art" |
| 1999 | Cate Parish | "Ode to Someone in the Pool" | James Burton | "Keats and Coldness" |
| 2000 | Antony Nichols | "Graveyard Shift" | Helena Nelson | "Wherefore all this Wormy Circumstance" |
| 2001 | Robert Saxton | "The Nightingale Broadcasts" | Toby Venables | "The Lost Traveller" |
| 2002 | Jane Draycott | "The Night Tree" | Joe Francis | "Doubting the Mountain: an Approach to Mont Blanc" |
| 2003 | Leonie Rushforth | "Bearings" | Stephen Burley | "Shelley, the United Irishman and the Illuminati" |
| 2004 | Isobel Lusted | "Soul with White Wings" | Porscha Fermanis | "Stadial Theory, Robertson’s History of America, and Hyperion" |
| 2005 | Edmund Cusick | "Speaking in Tongues" | David Taylor | "Prometheus Unbound" |
| 2006 | Martin McRitchie | "The Experiment" | Alison Pearce | "Magnificent Mutilations" |
| 2007 | Richard Marggraf Turley[1][2] | "Elisions" | Adam Gyngell | "Ye Elemental Genii" |
| 2008 | John Gohorry | "Lost" | Susan Miller | "Hellenic and Scientific Influences in P.B. Shelley’s Medusa" |
| 2009 | Maitreyabandhu[3] | "The Small Boy and the Mouse" | Jillian Hess | “This Living Hand: Commonplacing Keats" |
| 2010 | Simon Armitage[4] | "The Present" | Andrew Lacey | "Wings of Poesy: Keats's Birds" |
| 2011 | Pat Borthwick | "Lord Leighton brings Arabia to Holland Park" | Priyanka Soni | "Natura Naturata: Shelley's Philosophy of the Mind in Creation" |
| 2012 | Nick MacKinnon[5][6] | "Terrier in rape" | Ruth Scobie | "Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Explorers" |
| 2013 | Patrick Cotter[7] | "Madra" | Eleanor Fitzsimons | "The Shelleys in Ireland: passion masquerading as insight." |
| 2016 | Will Kemp[8] | "Driving to Work at 5am Listening to Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" | Michael Allen[8] | "A Distant Idea of Proximity" |
| 2017[9] | Cahal Dallat | "Giant" | Hester Styles Vickery | "Keats and Consumption " |
| 2018[10] | Laurinda Lind | "Conscientious Objector " | Tara Lee | "Philosophic numbers smooth " |
| 2019[11] | Leo Boix | "Unholy Family" | Joseph Begley | "The Mind is its Own Place: Torquato Tasso and Romantic Heroism" |
| 2020[12] | Pascale Petit | "Indian Paradise Flycatcher" | Rosie Whitcombe | "Connection, Consolation, and the Power of Distance in the Letters of John Keats " |
References edit
- ^ "Elisions by Richard Marggraf Turley". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ^ "Eliot shortlist, Keats-Shelley prizes awarded". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ^ "Keats-Shelley prize goes to Buddhist poet". The Guardian. 28 October 2009. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
- ^ "Simon Armitage wins Keats-Shelley poetry prize". The Guardian. 14 October 2010. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ^ "A terrier's passion makes a poetry prize". www.standard.co.uk. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ^ MacKinnon, Nick (19 October 2012). "Terrier in rape". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ^ Vanessa O'Loughlin (14 November 2013). "Both Keats-Shelley Prizes for 2013 won by Irish Writers :)". Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ^ a b "Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory reanimate Frankenstein for Keats-Shelley prize". The Guardian. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
- ^ "The Keats-Shelley Prize 2017". keats-shelley.org. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ "The Keats-Shelley Prize 2018". keats-shelley.org. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ "Keats-Shelley Prize 2019". keats-shelley.org. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
- ^ "Keats-Shelley Prize 2020". keats-shelley.org. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
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