Visions of Delight: Poems for The Eve of St Agnes

Monday 20 January 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm on Zoom

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Visions of Delight: Poems for The Eve of St Agnes
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A special event with Helen Farish, Nicholas Roe and friends for St Agnes’ Eve, the bitter chill night celebrated in John Keats’s famous poem, when you might see visions of future lovers.

Helen Farish reads poems from her collection The Penny Dropping, shortlisted for this year’s TS Eliot Prize, sharing poems which talk back to Keats and other poets.  This is followed by a relay reading of Keats’s The Eve of St Agnes, with a short introduction to the poem by Keats Biographer, Professor Nicholas Roe.

The Keats Foundation in partnership with The Poetry Society.

Reader biographies:

Helen Farish is the author of four books of poems, Intimates (Cape, 2005) which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand (Bloodaxe, 2012), The Dog of Memory (Bloodaxe, 2016) and The Penny Dropping (Bloodaxe, 2024). She lives in Cumbria.

Nicholas Roe is the author of critically acclaimed biographies and studies including John Keats: A New Life, Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh HuntWordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years, and John Keats and the Culture of Dissent. He is Wardlaw Professor of English Literature at St Andrews University and Chair of the Keats Foundation.