Today I'm going to Arcadia… from the birthplace of Mary Wollstonecraft in the city to the John Keats’ school house in Enfield and then on toward the New River… Last week's essay describes how I arrived at my starting point... jannoble.substack.com/p/n61-poets-...

Going live at five to talk about walking and reading from 'A Masque for Keats' open.substack.com/live-stream/...

This week’s essay recalls a walk lead by Niall McDevitt and retraces one of my own, from Shakespeare to Mary Wollstonecraft - from where theatre was made to where the money is made - to find a very English revolutionary… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

A London poetry walk… from Shakespeare in Shoreditch to the birth place of Mary Wollstonecraft… open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Everything changes. Except the avant garde... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

More communing with poet ghosts... and why live ones still insist on using 'Poetry Voice' at readings... open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

From the page to the stage, from Blake to Shakespeare, one mile in one minute…

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From the page to the stage… Live at 5pm… open.substack.com/live-stream/...

I went out for a walk...

“I am just going outside and may be some time.”

Not quite an announcement... just waving from here...

I’m going to walk around London. A circumnavigation of the entire city. Not all at once but in sections, between interconnecting points of poetic interest, in episodes broadcast live every Sunday on Substack at five. Watch or join.

Soft signals sent from a far island… the sound of a white wing beating…

Another fine selection of essays, prime cuts and choice morsels…

I may write an essay a week but Dave reads dozens of them… and then picks a bunch… always a thrill to make this list…

Performed a section of this at Keats-Shelley House yesterday, showing the whole thing today... bodyoneonefive.com/livestream/

Such a great resource this... it gets my endorsement not simply because I made the list again but for the wealth and diversity of material Dave curates here each week...

At about 4pm in the afternoon of 23rd February 1821 John Keats called out to his friend Joseph Severn: “lift me up—I am dying—I shall die easy; don't be frightened—be firm, and thank God it has come” He died at around 11pm.

On this day in 1821 the poet John Keats died in Rome. #onthisday #otd #keats I’m launching a new work, ‘A Masque for Keats’, at Keats-Shelley House in Rome, 28 Feb, 5pm. More info here: ksh.roma.it/events/masqu...

An honour to be on this list… do come and find me on Substack and follow the series I’m writing about Keats…

Launching ‘A Masque for Keats’ at Keats-Shelley house in Rome on 28th February, a new verse-drama at the intersection of theatre and poetry…

The critic John Lockhart began his savage attack on Keats by saying, “Of all the manias of this mad age, the most incurable, as well as the most common, seems to be no other than the Metromanie.”

Plaster cast of life-mask of John Keats by Benjamin Robert Haydon.

Going live at five to talk all things Keats… open.substack.com/live-stream/...

My fourth essay on John Keats concerns letters, criticism and why shutting the fuck up is sometimes the only policy… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Good artists steal, bad artists imitate... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here’s my third piece on the ‘vulgar cockney’ Keats. The first of the year and 45th overall… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Maresca left by ‘mutual consent’… but we pushed him over the edge on this podcast…

Starting out as I mean to go on… #blankpage

You might be tired of me prattling on about poetry… so here’s another subject I can speak about with even less authority…

The second of ten pieces I’m writing about the last days of John Keats. This week we find the poet caught between the nut sack of Christmas and arsehole of New Year… open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Fuck me did the King just quote T.S. Eliot? Nearly spat my spouts out… #tseliot #toilets #kingsspeach

Closing out the year and rolling into the next with a series of ten essays charting the last days of the poet Keats in Rome. Consider this my Christmas special (sans sleigh bells, fake snow and santa hats) open.substack.com/pub/jannoble...

Ten, short lyric-essays charting the last days of John Keats in Rome… #onthisday #keats

On this day the police in Rome began an investigation into the poet John Keats. On 18 December 1820 a local magistrate, Stanislao del Drago, first filed a report at the head office and the police opened a case, adding Keats’ name to the investigations register…

Sharing this consideration of Lennon at 85 on the anniversary of his death…

In the moments before we’re all vaporised, before we become shadows against walls, before the walls themselves becomes shadows against the scorched earth she will be carefully peeling the paper wrapper from a tin, placing the wrapper in one box, the tin in another...

Be healthy, stay sick…

Two figures, in a landscape. You and I, holding hands on a cold November day, watching the world go the other way…

Do a commercial and you’re off the artistic roll call. Forever. I was happy to take that risk…

Searching for a quick way out? Then this may not be for you… Sometimes we gotta go in deeper, we gotta push on through…

In which I climb a cathedral, get lost in a shopping mall and have an encounter with a candle peddler…

Described by critic John Gibson Lockhart as a “vulgar cockney” John Keats was born above this London pub (formerly the Swan and Hoop) on this day in 1795.

This is not a love poem. This is a death of love poem.

What was the name of that town we didn’t visit? Where the train didn’t stop? That we passed by in rain? I’d like to go back there. Please, please take me back…

Really, what is wrong with you?

It happens that I arrive in the rain… 18-11-25 →