Romans and Romantics

Anthony Gardner & Harry Eyres present poems under the title ‘Romans and Romantics’ on Thursday 9th October at 5:30 pm

Harry Eyres and Anthony Gardner are London-based poets who have previously given joint readings at Keats House in Hampstead and in Wordsworth’s Lake District. Eyres will be sharing his translations from Catullus and Horace, while Gardner will read poems that share scenes and themes with Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth.

Admission is free but booking is required due to the limited number of spaces (please write to info@keats-shelley-house.org).

Entry from 5:15 pm onwards. 

Harry Eyres is a writer, journalist and poet, best known for the Slow Lane column in the Financial Times Weekend edition, which he created and wrote weekly from 2004 to 2015. He has also been a theatre critic and arts writer for The Times, poetry editor of The Daily Express and wine columnist for several leading publications. He is the author of the memoir Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet (Bloomsbury and Farrar, Straus &; Giroux), shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize, two collections of poetry and several books on wine.

Anthony Gardner is an Irish writer who counts W.B. Yeats and the Romantics among his main influences. He has published two collections of poetry, The Pool and Other Poems and The Moss in Lanthwaite Wood, as well as two novels, The Rivers of Heaven and Fox. His poems have also appeared in The London Magazine and the Temenos Academy Review; Grey Gowrie described them as “compelling and addictive.” He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the founding editor of its magazine the RSL Review.