February 2019
Afternoon Poems: Love Poetry
In the run-up to Valentine’s Day experience the poetry of love, performed by the Keats House Poetry Ambassadors. The readings will include poems by Keats, Byron and many others. Learn more here.
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Afternoon Poems Special: 200th Anniversary of Peterloo
Join the Keats House Poetry Ambassadors for a reading of 'The Mask of Anarchy' written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in response to the Peterloo massacre which occurred in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, on 16 August 1819. Professor Ian Haywood of the University of Roehampton will discuss the poem’s historic context. Learn more here.
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Afternoon Poems: “An Agreeable Variety”
In February 1820, Keats wrote to Fanny Brawne that he was ‘looking forward to Health and the Spring’. Let the Poetry Ambassadors relieve your seasonal maladies with their agreeable selection. Learn more here.
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