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English PEN: Who gets to love the “great British poets”?
Thu 10 Jul 2025 to Thu 10 Jul 2025
From Wordsworth to Blake, Keats to Tennyson, the British poetry canon is replete with influential literary figures, encountered for decades in classrooms across the globe. But who is enfranchised to appreciate, and take inspiration from, the great British poets of the past?
In this event, presented by English PEN in partnership with Keats House, three contemporary poets will discuss their appreciation for British heritage poetry, how it has intervened in their lives, and how it has influenced their work.
They will also reflect on the ways in which their reading of the canon is shaped, enriched, and complicated by the positions and contexts from which they read, and the complex ways the culturally constructed image of the writer and the reader intersect with notions of race and class.
Speakers:
Kit Fan, poet, novelist and critic
Awet Fissehaye, poet, writer, and lyricist
Fran Lock,poet, essayist and editor
Rachael Allen (Chair), writer, editor, lecturer
Date: Thursday 10 July 2025, 7:00 pm
Location: Keats House, 10 Keats Grove, London NW3 2RR
Cost: £5-£20
Book your place here
Additional Information:
Location:
London
Region(s):
London
Price:
£5-£20
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